FUNARIACE^.] 133 [Funaria. 



3. FUNARIA ATTEXUATA {Dich.) Lindh. 



Autoicous; densely gregarious. Leaves in a spreading rosette, 

 broadly obovate-oblong, acuminate, the ma'rgin slightly crenate, nerve 

 vanishing. Caps, erect, pyriform with a long defluent neck, teeth 

 of peristome 16, small lanceolate - subulate, hd flattish convex. 

 (T. LXIV, C.) 



Syn. — Bryum attenuatum Dicks. Crypt. Fasc. IV, p. 8, t. 10, f. 8 (iSor). Brid. Muse. rec. II, 



P. Ill, 53 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 6 (1817), Mant. 117 (1819), Bry. univ. i, 638, p. p. (1826)'. 



Sm. F1. brit. 1360 (1804), Eng. Bot. t. 2433. Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. II, 120 (1816). 



Steud. Nomencl. crypt. 86 (1824). 

 Orthofyxis ? attenuata P. Beauv. Prodr. 79 (1805). 

 Gymnostomum pyriforme Brid. Sp. muse. I, 27, p. p. (i8o5). 

 Splachnum jfuressi Schwaeg. Suppl. I, P. I, 55 (1811). Brid. Mant. 109; Bry. univ. i, 



263. C. MuELL. Synops. i, 148 (1848). 

 Funaria TempUtoni Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 2524 (1813). 

 Weissia Temfletoni Hook, in Curt. F1. Lond. i (1817), et Fl. Seot. II, 130 (1821). 



Hook. Tay. Muse. brit. 42, t. 14 (1818). Gray Nat. arr. Br. pi. i, 729 (1821). 

 Weissia longicollis Link. MSS. Brid. Mant. 45. 

 Entosthodon TempUtoni Schwaeg. Suppl. II, P. I, 44, 1. 113 (1823), et in L. Sp. pi. 4 ed. v, 



P. II, 47 (1830). Brid. Bry. univ. i, 379. Hook. Br. fi. ii, 51 (1833). Bals. De Not. 



in Mem. Accad. Torin. xl, 337 (1838). De Not. Syll. 227 (1838). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. 



fasc. II, p. 3, t. I (1841). C. MuELL. Synops. i, 124 (1848). , Wils. Bry. br. 272, t. 14 



(1855). ScHiMP. CoroU. 61 (1855), Synops. 319 (i860), 2 ed. 379. Berk. Handb. br. 



m. 176, t. 16, f. 5 (1863). HoBK. Syn. br. m. 1127 (1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 115 



(1873). Muse. gall. 215, t. 58 (1888). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 200 (1884). 

 Eremodon longicollis Brid. Bry. univ. i, 234. 

 Entosthodon rupestris Brid. ditto p. 379 ut syn. 

 Gymnos. Physcomitritim latifolium Brid. op. t. 760. 



Physc. latifolium Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 815 (1827). Bry. eur. fasc. 11, p. 15. 

 Funaria Fontanesii (non Schwaeg.) Bals. De Not. Prodr. bry. raediol. 32 (1834). 

 Physc. Entosthodon TempUtoni C. Muell. in Linntea xviii, 6g6 (1844). 

 Physc. SoUirolii Mont, in Ann. sc. nat. 4 ser. vii, 152 (1857). 

 Funaria attenuata Lindb. Not. ur Saells. Fn. et Fl. fenn. foerh. xi, 64 (1870). 



Autoicous; laxly or densely gregarious, simple. Cauline leaves very 

 small, few and distant, comal in a patent rosette or laxly imbricated, 

 broadly obovate or spathulate-oblong, acuminate, the margin slightly 

 crenate by projecting cells, with a very narrow yellow border, nerve 

 vanishing below apex. Caps, on an orange seta, erect pyriform with a 

 .long neck attenuated downward, leptodermous, yellowish-brown, finally 

 truncate obconic and rufo-fuscous ; annulus none, lid flattish convex ; 

 teeth of per. i6, from a confluent base, lanceofate-subulate, remotely 

 articulate, pale and papillose, when dry depressed and connivent. 

 Hab'.— Shady banks and wet sandstone rocks. Fr. 6 — 7. 



Not uncommon in Ireland, West of Scotland and Wales. Lake district. Plymouth 

 (Holmes) ! I By Clifton Viaduct, Manchester (Horsefield). 



Varies much in the length and width of the leaves and generally found 

 on dripping banks of streams, intermixed with other mosses. 



Sect. 2. EUFUNARIA. Capsule obhque, gibbous, cernuous, peris- 

 tome present. 



