274 FUNARIACE^. 



1. Funaria fascicularis Schp. (Bryum fasciculare Dicks. ; 



Physcomitrium fasciculare Fiirnr., mult, auct.) 

 (Tab. XXXVIII. C). 



Resembling Physcomitrium pyriforme, but usually a rather 

 more slender and paler plant. Leaves rather narrower, ovate- 

 lanceolate and oblong-spathulate, acuminate and acute. Cells as 

 in that species, the marginal hardly distinct. Seta pale reddish, 

 capsule erect or very slightly inclined, brown, rounded-oval, 

 pyriform with the shortly tapering neck ; calyptra shining, 

 yellowish green ; lid plano-convex, often quite flat when dry, the 

 cells arranged in slightly oblique series with a tendency to a 

 spiral arrangement ; annulus none. Peristome none, or 

 rudimentary, consisting of minute projections from the orifice. 



Hab. Fallow fields, etc. ; not common. Fr. spring. 



In addition to the strongly marked characters mentioned under Physcomitrium 

 pyriforme, by which that species is distinguished from the present, Funaria 

 fascicularis differs in its paler colour, and in the narrower leaves and generally more 

 slender habit. From the next species it may be known by the non-margined, more 

 serrate leaves, and capsule of a duller colour and rather larger size. 



2. Funaria ericetorum Dixon (Gymnostomum ericetorum 

 Bals. and De Not. ; Entosthodon ericetorum C. M., Schp. Syn. et 



plur. auct. ; Funaria obtusa Lindb., Braithw. Br. M. FI.) 

 (Tab. XXXVIII. D.). 



Loosely tufted, stem less than half an inch in height ; leaves 

 yellowish green, slightly glossy when dry, the upper crowded, 

 rather narrowly oval or oblong-lanceolate, acute, sub-entire or 

 slightly denticulate above, nerve ceasing some way below the 

 point, more rarely reaching it ; cells at base lax, rectangular, 

 above hexagonal-oblong, 1-2 rows at margin very narrow, 

 incrassate, orange, forming a distinct border. Seta 2-3 lines 

 long, slender ; capsule resembling that of the last species, but 

 smaller, of a brighter reddish colour, and more glossy, of a solid, 

 opaque texture. Lid convex, or very slightly mamillate. 

 Peristome none. 



Hab. Shady banks, etc., chiefly in mountainous country. Not unfrequent. 

 Fr. spring. 



The distinctly margined leaves and smaller capsule separate this with ease from 

 the last species, in which though occasionally a single marginal row of cells is 

 distinctly narrower and a shade yellower than the rest, there is never found a distinct 

 border ; the nerve too in that species is almost always carried further towards the 

 point than in this. The narrow fruit with longer neck and well developed peristome 

 of the next species readily distinguish it from the present one. 



