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5. Funaria gracilis Aus f. & W.) Broth. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
Musci, i, 524 (1903). 
Syn. Entosthodon gracilis H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z., ii, 91 (1855) ; Handb. 
N.Z. Fi., p. 451. 
This species and the next are marked by a long seta, 2-3cm., with a 
proportionately very small capsule of thin texture, somewhat urceolate 
cuspidate, and entire; in the present species the nerve is excurrent, 
an often long, reddish arista 
his species and the following have usually been placed in different 
enera; and Brotherus, while uniting them in Funaria, retains them in 
distinct subgenera, the present in Hntosthodon and the next in Eu-Funaria. 
The separation is determined by the fact that while the peristome here is 
single, in F. cuspidata there is an extremely delicate, imperfect inner 
ristome. In all other respects (barring the nerve of the leaf) the two are 
extremely close to one another. 
racilis is. cao frequent, and, like the sea is found in 
Australia and Tasmani 
6. Funaria cuspidata H. f. & W., Fl. N.Z., ii, 91 (1855); Handb. N.Z. 
. 450. 
+» P 
This pte differs from the preceding (q.v.) only in the presence of an 
imperfect inner peristome, and in the nerve which, instead of being 
excurrent, ceases well below the leaf-apex. 
It has nearly the same distribution as F. gracilis. Paris gives only the 
North Island ; I have seen no records from the South. 
7. Funaria glabra Tayl. in TL Journ. Bot., v (1846), p. 57; FI. 
N.Z., ii, 91; Handb. N.Z. Fl. p. 450. 
Readily known by the a. bias with wide mouth and ae 
developed, persistent peristome ; the ca psule is smooth, not striate, 
xannulate, and the seta is shorter tate is Fabia in F. hygrometrica, and ae 
socal smaller 
It appears to be common. 
8. Funaria hygrometrica (L.) Sibth., Fl. oxon., p. 288 (1794). 
Syn. F. sphaerocarpa C. M. in Bot. Zeit., 1851, p. 546. 
C. Mueller ——- the Australasian plant from F. hygrometrica on the 
ground cf a shorter and rounder capsule and one or two o cters 
If these characters were well defined and constant there might be reason 
for giving the plant varietal rank at least, but this is not the case; the 
ordinary forms of F. hygrometrica are probably at least equally common 
in the Australasian region, and they intergrade with the sphaerocarpa forms 
by all transitions. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
_ Entosthodon physcomitrioides C. M., “‘ Sudinsel Neuseelands,” Gen. Muse 
Frond., p. 109—I have examined good specimens of this, det. C. Mueller, in 
Schimper’s herbarium at sgh the labelling is “In swampy A ogg 
Fendalton, near Christchurch, T. W. N. Beckett, No. 367.” 
