FuNARiACE^.] 135 [Amblyodon. 



AMBLYODON DEALBATUS {Dicks.) P. Beam. 



The only species. (T. LXIV, B.) 



Syn. — Bryum dealbatum Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. II, 8, t. 5, f. 3 (1790). With. Bot. arr. 3 ed. iii, 

 816 (1796). Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 258 (1799). Sm. F1. brit. 1550 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 1571. 

 Turn. Muse. hib. 115 (1804). Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 768 (1821). Hook. Tay. Muse, 

 brit. 117, t. 28 (1818). Hook. Fl. scot. P. is, 149 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 58 (1833). Mack. 

 Fl. hibern. P. 2, 31 (1836). 



Meesia dealbata Swartz Muse. suae. 44 et 94, t. g, f. 10 (1798). Hedw. Sp. muse. 174, 

 t. 41 (1801). Brid. Muse. ree. II, P. Ill, 169 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 104 (1817), Mant. 

 122 (1819), Bry. univ. ii, 63 (1827). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 375 (1807). Sturm 

 Deutsch. fl. i;, 10 (1809). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 357 (1812). Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, 121 



(1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 83 (1816). FUNCK MoOSt. 44, t. 28 (1821). P. BeAUV. 



Mem. See. Linn. Par. t. 8, (1822). Hueben. Muse. germ. 490 (1833). De Not. Syll. 

 107 (1838). 



Amblyodon dealbatus P. Beauv. Prodr. 41 (1805). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. Fasc. ro, p. s, t. i, 

 (1841). Kabenh. Deutseh. kr. Fl. ii, S. 3, 196 {1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 127 (1849). 

 WiLS. Bry. br. 267, t. 28 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 404 (i860), 2 ed. 496. Berk. Handb. 

 br. m. 179, t. 17, f. 7 {1863). MiLDE Bry. siles. 198 (1869). De Not. Epil. bri. ital. 440 

 (i86g). HoBK. Syn. br. m. 125 (1873). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 315 (i88i). 

 Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 211 (1884). 



Autoicous and polyoicous ; short, nearly simple, laxly csespitose. 

 Leaves ovato-lanc, pale green becoming whitish by age, the lower pale 

 red, twisted when diy, the comal minutely serrate at apex, nerve 

 yellowish, vanishing below apex ; cells in the lower half, long lax and 

 rectangular, above polygonal. Caps, on a long reddish seta, lepto- 

 dermous, pale yellowish brown, erecto-cernuous, from an erect neck, 

 suboblique pyriform, arcuate when dry; calyptra small conico- 

 mitrseform, contracted at base, then split on one side ; annulus simple, 

 lid small convex-conic ; teeth of peristome reddish short ligulate obtuse, 

 only half the length of the processes of endostome which are 16 and 

 carinate. Male infl. discoid, terminal. 



Hab. — Wet places in subalpine districts ; not common. Fr. 6—7. 



Scotch mountains (D^cAsom). SuSoXk (Eagle). Malham Tarn (W»/iO») ! ! Stansiield 

 moor, Todmorden {NowelT) ! ! Sandy shore at Southport and Crosby. Gordale. 

 Sutton Park, Birmingham (Bagnall). Ben Laoigh (Ewing). 



This moss in its fruit resembles Meesea, but the reticulation of the leaf 

 so closely corresponds to that of Funaria, that it must certainly be referred 

 to the same family, with which it also agrees in its clavate paraphyses. 



Subf. 3. Fnnarieoe. Annual terrestrial mosses, with usually simple 

 stems. Calyptra when young quadrangular-inflated, when ripe longer than 

 capsule, rostrate slit up on one side and dimidiate or lobed. Peristome 

 simple, double or sometimes none. Leaves with lax cells. 



