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14. FUNARIA Schreb. Gen. Plant, p. 760 (1791). 

 1. F. hygrometrioa Hedw. Sp. Muse. p. 172 (1801). 



Island op St. Thomas. — Laxly cseapitose. growing with various 

 Bryoid mosses and occurring principally on half-burnt, half-rotten 

 trunks in woods on Monte CafPd at an elevation of about 2600 ft. ; 

 with fr. Dec. 18C0. No. 127. 



Also collected in woods in the kingdom of Lunda to the east of the 

 district of Casange and given to Welwitsch by Livingstone, May 1855. 

 No. 115. 



15. PHILONOTIS Brid. Bry. Univ. II. p. 15 (1827). 

 F. spongiosa. 



Bryum spongiosum Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. See. Phys. 

 XXI. i. p. 218, t. i. fig. 3 (1871). 



Anomohryum spongiosum Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. I. p. 603. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A densely csespitose, brilliantly green moss 

 occurring in spongy pulvinate tufts on wet gneiss rocks ; frequently 

 visited by Welwitsch, but always found in the sterile state ; at the 

 cataracts above Caluuda in the most lofty parts of the prsesidium,. 

 Oct. 1856 ; by rills in Mata de Pungo, Nov. 1856, and Feb., April 

 and middle of May 1857 ; near Oabondo, Jan., Feb., March 1857 ; 

 by the springs of Pedra Cabondo, Dec. 1856, Feb. and May 1857 ; by 

 the cataracts of the prsesidium, March 1857. No. 61. Closely 

 associated with Bryum argenteum (No. 70) on wet rocks by the rivulet 

 in Barranco de S. Antonio within the prsesidium, always sterile, May 

 1857. No. 62. Also Alga No. 152. 



The stems of this moss are usually branched at base, bearing long 

 (2 cm.) simple branches which are straight or curved at apex, and 

 tomentose below ; leaves congested at apex ; the mature leaves exceed 

 1 mm. in length and are slightly papillate on the upper surface ; the 

 nerve is shortly excurrent at apex and deourrent at base, and the 

 margin is narrowly revolute along the whole of one side and in 

 the middle of the other side ; the basal cells near the nerve are large 

 and lax and those near the margin are shorter, quadrate and sub- 

 obscure ; the upper cells are lax and the contracted primordial utricle 

 in them is persistent ; inflorescence not observed. 



Some of the specimens under Welwitsch's No. 61 may turn out to 

 belong to another species, with stems more branched, less tomentose. 



Among the indeterminate specimens belonging to this genus 

 are the following numbers : — 



Hdilla. — On the roots of old trees and on rocks close by, near 

 rivulets in rather dense woods, near Catumba ; sterile, April 1860. 

 No. 39, in part. 



PuNGO Andongo. — On rocks by rivulets in forests of Caesaltiiniffi 

 and Acacise, near Pedras de Guinga ; sterile, Jan. 1857. No. 57. 

 Yery bright green, widely csespitose, providing a suitable basis for the 

 growth of terrestrial UtricularisB ; on the sides of the CasalaW river 

 within the prsesidium ; sterile, March 1857. No. 79. 



GoiiUNGO Alto. — On shaded moist ground by the rivulet of 

 Quibolo ; sterile, 19 March 1856. No. 156. A moss never found in 

 the fruiting state though visited at different periods ; on the margins 

 of the ferruginous spring near Bango-Aquitamba, end of April and 

 in Nov. 1856. No. 182. On rocks covered with a spongy crust of sandy 

 mud alongside the springs near Sange ; sterile, Feb. 1855. No. 188. 



