FuNARiACEiE.] 136 [Funaria. 



Bryum aureum cap. reflexis piriformibus, calyptra quadrangulari, foliis in bulhi formam 



congestis Dill. Cat. giss. 227 (1719), et in Ray Synops. 3 ed. loi, n. 49 (1724). 

 Bryum hulbiforme annum, calyptra quadrangulari, capsulis piriformibus nutantibus Dill. 



Hist. muse. 407 t. 52, f. 75 (1741) e' Herbar. 

 Mnium hygrometricum L. Sp. pi. mo (1753), Syst. nat. ii, 700. Weiss Cr. Goett. 147 



(1770) Fl. Dan. t. 648, f. 2. With. Bot. arr. ii, 664 (1776). Pollich PI. Palat. 111, 



n. 983(1777). LiGHTF. Fl. scot, ii, 709 (1777). Relh. Fl. cant. 399 (1785). Hoffm. 



Deutsch. fl. ii, 50 (1795). Abbot Fl. bedf. 233 (1798). Sturm Deutsch. fl. II, 2 (1798). 



Hull Br. fl. P. 2, 249 (1799). 

 Bryum hygrometricum Huds. Fl. angl. 416 (1762). Neck. Meth. muse. 221 (1771). 



Web. Spic. Fl. gott. 181 (1778). Vill. PI. Dauph. m, 890 (1786). Eng. Bot. t. 342. 

 Koelreutera hygrometrica Hedw. Fund. II, 95 (1782)- Timm Fl. megap. n. 853 {1788). 



Roth Tent. fl. germ, i, 477 (1788). Schrank Baiers. fl. 11, 481 (1789), Pr. fl. salisb. 



n. 851 (1792). 

 Funaria hygrometrica Sibth. Fl. Oxen. 288 (1794)- Schrad. Samml. kr. gew. i, n. 63 



(1796), et in Usteri Ann. Bot. xix, no (1796). Roth Tent. fl. germ, iii, P. I, 225 



{1800). Thunb. Prodr. pi. cap. II, 174 (1800). Hedw. Sp. muse. 172 {1801). Brid. 



Muse. rec. II, p. Ill, 118 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 65 (1817), Mant. 123 {1819), Bry. 



univ. ii, 51 (1827). Sm. Fl. brit. 1338 (1804). Turn. Muse. hib. 106 (1804). Schultz 



Fl. starg. 350 (1806). Web. Mohr Bot. Tasch. 378 (1807). VoiT Muse. herb. 126 



(1812). Wahlenb. Fl. lapp. 350 (1812). Roehl. Deutseh. fl. iii, 113 (1813). Hook. 



Fl. Lond. 2 ed. e. ie., Fl. seot. P. II, 136 (1821), Br. fl. ii, 52 (1833). Schwaeg. 



Suppl. I, P. II, 75 (1816). Mart. Fl. er. erl. 74 (1817). Hook. Tayl. Muse. br. 69, 



t. 10 (1818). Hartm. Skand. fl. Gray Nat. arr. br. pi. i, 744 (1821). Funck Moost. 



42, t. 33 (1821). Hueben. Muse. germ. 497 (1833). Mack. Fl. hibern. P. 2, 29 (1836). 



De Not. Syll. 143 (1838), Epilogo 446 (1869). Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. 11, 8, t. 3 



(1841). Raeenh. Deutsch. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 89 (1848). C. Muell. Synops. i, 107 (1849). 



WiLS. Bry. br. 269, t. 20 (1855). Schimp. Synops. 323 (i860), 2 ed. 384. Berk. 



Handb. br. m. 177, t. 16, f. 6 (1863). Milde Bry. siles. 197 (i86g). Hobk. Synops. 126 



(1873). HusN. Mouss. nord-ouest 117 (1873), Muse. gall. 218, t. 59 (1888). Juratz. 



Laubm. oester.-ung. 242 (1882). Boulay Muse, de Fr. 297 (1884). Lesq. James 



Mosses N. Amer. 202 (1884). 

 Strephedium hygrometricum P. Beauv. Prodr. 8g (1805). 

 Funaria campylopus Brid. Bry. univ. ii, 739 (1827). 



Autoicous ; short, csespitose, yellowish green ; stems simple or 

 divided at base. Comal leaves at first connivent, crowded in a rosette, 

 rarely patulous, thin and concave, ovate-oblong, acuminate, quite entire, 

 nerve reaching apex. Caps, on a long flexuose seta, twisting to right 

 above, to left below, arcuate at top, turgidly pyriform, depressed or 

 turned downward, coriaceous, orange or rufous, when dry deeply sulcate, 

 the mouth oblique, surrounded by a corrugated border ; lid broadly 

 convex, grooved to receive the annulus which is crimson, broad and 

 revoluble ; teeth of peristome lanceolate-subulate, falcate, pale red, 

 depressed at points when dry and connivent on a central sieve-like disc ; 

 processes of endostome lanceolate-subulate, | length of teeth. Spores 

 ferruginous, small, smooth. Male infl. terminal on a short basal branch, 

 bracts subspathulate, serrated at apex. 



Hab. — On the ground, heaths, and banks, common. Fr. 5 — 8. 



Var p. patula Br. Sch. 



Stem slender, divided, comal leaves patulous, longer and narrower, 

 flexuose at margin, twisted when dry. 



Syn. — Br. Sch. Bry. eur. fasc. n, p. 8, t. 3. C. Muell. Wilson, &c. 



