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Rh FUNARIA SERRATA, Beauv.

Tab. 54.

annuæ vel biennes, gregariæ, vel cæspitulos laxos tristius virides efformantes.

2–4-linearis. dimidio inferiore radiculoso defoliatus, superne conferte foliosus.

majuscula in gemmam apertam congesta; exteriora elliptico-lanceolata; comalia et perichætialia oblongo- vel ligulato-lanceolata; omnia brevius acuminata, limbo luteo superne serrato circumducta; costa sub apice desinente; reti laxo e cellulis hexagono-oblongis, basilaribus amplioribus elongatis, exstructo.

monoici, utriusque sexus terminales: flos masculus specie in ramo radicali.

in pedicello longo sicco tota longitudine sinistrorsum torto pyriformis, erecto-incurva, orificio obliquo; annulo nullo; sporis majusculis; operculo deplanato-convexo apiculato; calyptra generis.

Moist and clayey soil, in exposed situations, in the Southern States.

F. serrata, Beauv., is nearly allied to the three species here briefly characterized, viz.:—

1., Spruce; foliis obovatis vel oblongo-obovatis in acumen tenue breviusculum subito attenuatis superne serratis; operculo depresso-convexo mutico; pedicello sicco superne sinistrorsum inferne dextrorsum torto.—F. convexa, Spruce, Musc. Pyren.; Schimp. Synop. Musc. Europ. p. 322. F. serrata, Bryol. Europ. t. 324.—Found only in Europe, and until recently confounded with F. serrata, Beauv., an exclusively North American species.