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2. Conostomum Magellanicum, Sulliv. (Tab. 8.) 



G mcmoicum ccespitosum ; caulibus gracilibus dense foliosis innovando- 

 ra.7nosis ; foliis quinqiiefariis arete (in sicco vel humidoj appressis 

 Icevibus oblongo-ovatis obtusis quadrato-areolatis, costa latissima sub- 

 apice desinente ; floribus terminalibus inasculo disciformi fcemineo 

 capituliforrni, periclicetialibus oblongo-acuminatis excurrenti-costatis : 

 fructu non viso. 



Conostomum Magellanicum, Sulliv. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 1850, p. 316. 



Hab. Orange Harbor, Fuegia. Specimens without fruit. 



Monoicous : stems caespitose, radiculose below and at the base of 

 the innovations, slender, U inches high, branched by innovations, 

 densely leafy, subjulaceous. Leaves crowded, appressed in a dry or 

 moist state, indistinctly 5-ranked, oblong-ovate, obtuse, moderately 

 concave, subcarinate, entire, smooth; areolation rather large, quad- 

 rate; costa broad, predominant, ceasing a little below the apex. 

 Flowers terminal ; the male disciform ; antheridia numerous, shorter 

 than the clavate paraphyses ; the fertile capituliform ; archegonia slen- 

 der, with filiform paraphyses. Perichsetial leaves oblong, acuminate, 

 cuspidate by the excurrent costa. 



Plate 8, G — Conostomum Magellanicum: plants, of the natural 

 size. Fig. 1. A plant. 2, 3, 4. Stem-leaves. 5, 6, 7. Perigonial leaves. 

 8. Perichgetial leaf. 9. Upper part of stem-leaf, showing the reticula- 

 tion. 10. Cross section of leaf. 11. Archegonia and paraphyses. 

 12. Same. 13. Antheridium and paraphyses. — Details magnified. 



Tribe 16. FUNARIE-EJ. 



1. FUN ARIA, Schreb. 

 1. Funaria hygrometrica, Hedw. 



Funaria hygrometrica, Hedw. Sp. Muse. p. 172; BryoL Europ. 3, Funar. Mono^r. 

 p. 8, t. 3. 



Hab. New Holland ; Sandwich Islands ; Oregon ; New Zealand. 



