50 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
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7. B. radicahis, Beauy. Moneecious; stems short; leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, erect, cuspidate by the long-excurrent scabrous costa; male flower gemmi- 
rm, close to the female. — Wet clay-banks, Ohio and southward. 
52. CONOSTOMUM, Swartz. (Tab. 17.) 
tra enealliform. Operculum conic-rostellate. Capeate globular, cer- 
Inflorescence dicecious: male flower subdiscoid, with clavate paraphyses.— A 
genus scarcely distinguishable from Bartramia, differing only in the structure of 
peristome, the rostellate operculum, and the larger and less fugacious calyp- 
(Name from k@vos, a cone, and erdépa, a mouth, in allusion to the cone-like 
appearance of the peristome.) 
1. C. peta Swartz. Stems compactly czspitose, }/-2! high, glau- 
above, brownish below ; leaves erect, imbricated in 5 rows, lanceo- 
rake reas serrate, sharply carinate, mucronate by the excurrent costa. — 
rocks, in bleak Siies situations, White Mountains of New Hampshire. 
(Tab. 17.) (Eu.) 
Tre XXII. FUNARIEX. 
53. FUNARIA, Schreb. (Tab. 17.) 
Calyptra cuculliform, inflated below, subulate above. nore conic or 
eonvex-obtuse. Capsule obliquely pyriform, rather ventricose, cernuous, with a 
small oblique mouth, long-pedicellate. Peristome double the exterior He 16 
i lanceolate-attenuated, and connected at their apices by a small 
iettchiated d ; the interior a membrane divided to the base into 16 icasile 
eilia, nas the teeth. Inflorescence monecious: male flower subdiscoid, 
remote arger, 
ture ; the areolw large, hexagonal-oblong ; costa loosely cellular, ceasing below 
the apex. (Name from fimis, a rope, from the twisted pedicel.) 
1. F. hygrométrica, Hedw. Stems 3-10” high; upper 
_ late, very concave, entire, costate nearly to the apex; the perigonial leaves 
serrate ; capsule farrowed when dry, the border of its mouth co ted ; annu- 
Ins large, spirally unrolling ; pedicel (2/—3/ long) arcuate and flexuous. — Var. 
Catvéscens has the pedicel more elongated and straight, the capsule more 
‘slender, and almost erect.— Very common, on the ground (particularly 
lately burnt over), and on walls; the v variety occurs mostly in the Southern 
: anes (Tab. 17.) (En.) 
F. flavicans, Michx. I y much like the last, 
tnt se sleet 9 eesne Meh aestels.s omiraei > euspidate point, the 
