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1. A. dealbatus, P. Beauv. — Hook, fy Wils. t. xxviii. ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1571.; (Plate 17, fig. 7) ; Moug. fy Nest. n. 1121. 



In -wet, mountainous spots. Scotland, Ireland, north of 

 England, and Suffolk. Bearing fruit in summer. 



Monoicous or polygamous. Leaves pale-green or whitish, 

 ovato-lanceolate or subspathulate, entire or minutely toothed ; 

 leaf-cells large, oblong, subhexagonal, very transparent ; nerve 

 ceasing below the tip; fruitstalk 1| inch long; outer teeth 

 chestnut, obtuse or acute ; inner pale. 



Exactly connecting Funaria with Meesia. 



49. MEESIA, Hedw. 



Sporangium suberect, obovate or clavate, curved, gibbous 

 behind ; mouth small and oblique ; apophysis tapering into 

 the long fruitstalk ; veil at first conico-mitriform, inflexed at 

 the base, fugacious ; peristome double ; outer of sixteen short, 

 obtuse, scarcely hygrometric teeth, entire, or at length cloven, 

 more or less united to the inner, which consists of a mem- 

 brane divided into sixteen narrow-keeled processes. 



1 . M. uliginosa, Hedw. ; monoicous and synoicous in the 

 same plant ; leaves suberect, lanceolato-subulate, obtuse ; nerve 

 thick, reaching nearly to the tip; margin entire, recurved; 

 sporangium pyriform, incurved; lid conical, obtuse. — Hook. 

 $ Wils. t. xxviii.; Eng. Bot. 1. 1517. ; (Plate 16, fig. 7) ; Moug. 

 $ Nest. n. 727. 



In wet, mountainous spots. Scotland and north of England. 

 On sand-hills on the sea-shore, Lancashire. Bearing fruit in 

 summer. 



Forming dense, short, green tufts, yellowish when. dry. 

 Stems 4-3 inches high, clothed below with purple rootlets ; 

 lower leaves distant ; upper crowded, lanceolato-subulate, blunt 

 or more rarely subacute; leaf-cells not very large, broadly 



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