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Rh FUNAUIA FLAVICANS, Michx.

Tab. 53.

annuæ, raro bienncs, teneræ, in cæspitibus laxis læte viridibus degentes, basi radiculis intertextæ.

3–10 lincas altus, inferne subnudus, supernc congesto-foliosus.

inferiora remota minutissima; superiora in gemmam conniventia, magna, mollia, tenerrima, concava, late obovato-elliptica vel oblongo-snbspathnlata, in acumen longiuscnlnm subito exeuntia; reti amplo laxissimo oblongo-hexagono; costa tenui subexcedente vel cum acumine finiente.

monoici terminales: nos masculus subdiscoidens in caule primario; feminens in innovations propria tandem prævalente; antheridiis oblongis; parapliysibus longioribus numerosis apice valde inflatis.

subhorizontalis, una cum collo in pedicellum tenuem lougissimum sensim attenuata, pyriformis, snbincurva; peristomii dentibus rufo-aurantiaceis lanceolato-subulatis obliquatis apice appendiculatis, processibus dentibus oppositis luteis; annulo specioso revolubili; operculo plano-convexo vix apiculato; calyptra magna vesiculoso-cucullata longissime tenui-rostrata; sporis pallide luteis lævibus.

Moist, sandy, and clayey ground, Middle and Southern States.

F. flavicans compared with F. hygrometrica, which in size and general aspect it much resembles, is a paler-colored moss; its