FuNARiACE^.] 135 [Fimaria. 



This has led to inextricable confusion in the synonymy, which Lindberg 

 attempted to end by renaming them; his F. Americana = the genuine 

 F. Muehknbergii Hedw. f., his F. Mediterranea~F. MuthUnbergii Turn., and 

 his F. calcarea = F. hibemica Hook. ; that the last is perfectly correct is clear 

 from Wahlenberg's beautiful figure, and also that it must stand as the type 

 of the species, being a larger plant with larger and more sharply serrate 

 leaves, but that these trivial differences are sufficient to maintain the other 

 even as a variety must be answered in the negative, for every stage of 

 projection of the marginal cells constituting the teeth, may be noticed down 

 to an almost entire edge to the leaf. 



5. FUNARIA MICROSTOMA Br. Sch. 



Autoicous ; resembling F. hygrometrica. Leaves oval, acuminate, 

 entire, nerve lost in the point. Caps, decurved, annulate; lid small, 

 subconic, endostome rudimentary. (T. LXV, E.) 



Syn. — Funaria microstoma Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 11, p. 9, t. 4 (1841). C. Muell. Synops. i, 

 106 (1848). Rabenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 90 (1848). Schimp. Synops. 324 (i860), 

 2 ed. 385. De Not. Epilogo 447 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 126 (1873). HusN. Mouss. 

 nord-ouest 117 (1873), Muse. gall. 219, t. 59 (1888). Juratz. Laubm. oester.-ung. 243 

 (1882). BouLAY Muse, de Fr. 298 (1884). Lesq. James Moss. N. Amer. 203 (1884). 



Autoicous ; resembling F. hygrometrica. Comal leaves connivent in 

 a gemma, oval, longly acuminate, very concave, entire, the nerve 

 vanishing in the point. Caps, turned downward on a stouter seta 

 arcuate above, turgidly pyriform, more solid, deep bay, subnitid, less 

 deeply sulcate when dry ; annulus broad, lid much smaller, subconic, 

 mamillar ; peristome smaller, endostome very imperfect, agglutinated to 

 the base of the teeth, yellowish ; spores twice the size smooth, punctu- 

 late. Male infl. on a radical branch. 

 Hab. — Open commons or heaths, rare. Fr. 7 — 8. 



Maresfield, Sussex {Mitten). Ashdown Forest [Davies 1865) ! ! New Forest (Davies). 



Very closely resembling F. hygromatrica and probably passed by for that 

 species ; it differs however in the small mouth and rudimentary endostome. 



6. ETJNARIA HYGROMETRICA (L.) Sibth. 



Autoicous ; cffispitose. Leaves ovato-Ianc, concave entire, nerved 

 nearly to point. Caps, pyriform-ventricose, furrowed, mouth oblique, 

 corrugated, annulate, seta curved, flexuose. (T. LXV, F.) 



Syn. Muscus trichoides minor, foliis ad caulem convolutis, capitulis subrotundis reflexis. 



Doody. Ray Synops. App. 244 (i6go). 

 Adiantum aureum minus, foliis bulbi in modum dispositis. Vernon. Ray Synops. 2 ed. 



33 (1696). 

 Muscus capillaris pedicuUs bulbosis uncialibus pallidis, capitula oblonga reflexa sustmen- 



tibus Ray op. c. 34. 



