FUNARIA HIBERNICA. IRISH FUNARIA.
FU N A R IA Hibemica, foliis ovato-lanceolatis, planis, sensim acuminätis, serratis, nervo arte apice
evanescente; seta recta..
FU N A R IA Muhlenbergii. Mohr FI. Crypt. Germ. p. 380.
Class a n d Order. CRYPTOGAMIA MUSCI.
[N atural Order. MUSCI, Juss. Decandolle. C R Y P TO G AM S CA LY P T RA T S , O P E R C U LA T S ,
Mohr.}
Gen . Char. Calyptra inferne ampullacea, hinc lateraliter fissa. Caps, obconica, ore obliquo. Perist. duplex,
ext. dentibus sedecim, obliquis; int. ciliis totidem illis oppositis, horizontalibus.
Funaria, Schreb. Koelreutera, Hedzo. Mnium, Linn.
Radix parva, tomentoso-fibrosa, fusca, annua.
Caules laxe casspitosi, tri- vel quadri-lineares, sim-
plices, vel innovatione infeme tantummodo di-
Folia pauca, remota, inferiora erectiuscula, superiora
stellatim disposita, omnia ovato-lanceolata, plana,
vel margine solummodo undulata, sensim acuminata,
serrata; nervo ante apicem evanescente.
Substantia reticulata, areolis grandiusculis, ovatis.
Fructificatio feminea terminalis.
Seta recta, parum flexuosa, losvis, flavescens.
Capsula cernua, obovato-pyriformis, dorso parum gib-
boso, longitudinaliter siccitate leeviter sulcata,
flavo-fusca; ore obliquo.
Operculum conico-obtusum, rufo-fuscum.
Calyptra quadrangulata, matura, e basi ovato-ampul-
lacea, subulata, pallide fusca, hinc basi longitudinaliter
fissa, apice aristata, intense fusca.
P eristomium duplex : ext. dentibus sedecim, obliquis,
acutis, transversim striatis, rubris, marginibus in-
tegerrimis: int. ciliis totidem, • membranaccis,
flavis, transverse striatis. ■
Root small, between tomentose and fibrous, brown, annual.
Stems loosely casspitose, three or four lines long, simple,
or divided only below by an innovation.
Leaves few, remote, the lower ones nearly erect, the
upper ones disposed in a stellated manner, all of
them ovato-lancfeolate, plane, or with the margin
only waved, gradually tapering to a point, serrate:
the nerve disappearing below the apex.
The substance is reticulated, with the areolaj rather
large, ovate.
Fructification : Female terminal.
Fruit-stalk erect, a little flexuose, smooth, yellowish;
Capsule cernuous, between obovate and pyriform,
above a little gibbous, longitudinally slightly
sulcated; mouth oblique.
Operculum conical, obtuse, red-brown.
Calyptra quadrangular, when ripe, from an ovate am-
pullaceous base, becoming subulate, pale brown,
on one side longitudinally cleft, at the apex aris-
tate, deep brown.
Peristome double: the exterior with sixteen oblique;
acute teeth, transversely striated, red, having the
margins entire: the interior with as many cilia,
membranaceous, yellow, transversely striated.
Fig. I. Plants of Funaria Hibemica, nat. size. Fig. 2. One of the same magnified. Fig. 3. Leaf. Fig. 4.
. Leaf showing the reticulation. Fig.-5. Capsule. Fig. 6. Calyptra. Fig. 7- Operculum. Fig. 8. Peristome.
Specimens of this new species of Funaria were communicated to me by Mr. Drummond, the Curator of the
Botanic Garden a t Cork, a zealous botanist, who gathered them on the roof o f a thatched cottage a t Blarney near
Cork. O f its being wh’at Dr. Mohr intended for his Funaria Muhlenbergii, his description leaves me no reason
to doubt. I t is certainly not the Funaria Muhlenbergii of M r. Turner’s Annals o f Botany, vol. 2. p. 198., whose
description Dr. Mohr justly observed did not well accord with his plant. I likewise possess a specimen o f the
American F. Muhlenbergii, from Dr. Muhlenberg himself, and can answer for its being the plant of Mr. Turner.
Whether or not our F. Hibemica be the F. calcarea of Wahlenberg in the Stockholm Transactions, and cited by
Mohrj-.I cannot say; .or-whether that be the true Muhlenbergii, as I do not possess the work in which it is described.
From F. Muhlenbergii our plant differs in the elongated stems, in the leaves being more distantly placed, ovato-
lanceolate, plane, gradually acuminated and strongly serrated; while the former has the leaves ovate, concave, and
so suddenly acuminated as to bear the appearance of a piliferous point, which is scarcely a t all serrated.
FUNARIA HYGROMETRICA. HYGROMETRIC
FUNARIA.
FUNARIA hygrometrica; foliis ovatis, apiculatis, concavis, integerrimis, nervo excurrente: seta ar-
cuata, flexuosa; capsula cernua, sulcata.
FUNARIA hygrometrica. Hedzo. Spec. Muse. p. 172. Roth FI. Germ. vol. 3. p. 225. Sibth. Ox.
p. 288. Turn. Muse. H ib .p . 105. Smith FI. B r it. p. 1338. Engl. Bot. t. 342. Web.
et Mohr FI. Crypt. Germ.p. 378. Sturm Deutsch. FI. Voit Hist. Muse. Herb. p. 124.
Wahl. Lapp. p. 350. Decand. FI. Fr. vol. 2. p. 496. Decand. FI. Gall. S yn .p . 103.
KOELREUT ERA hygrometrica. Hedzo. Fund. vol. 2. p. 95. t. 10.
M N IUM foliis ovato-lanceolatis, conniventibus, capsulis ovatis reflexis. Hall. Helv. n. 1852.
M N IUM hygrometricum. Linn. Sp. P I. p. 1575. With. Bot. A r r . ed. 4. ml. 3. p. 787. • Lig h tf.
Scot. p. 709. Relh. Cant. p. 417. Oedei' FI. Dan. t. 648. f . 2. Hoffm. Germ. vol. 3.
p. 40. Lam. Diet. vol. 4. p. 200.
BRYUM hygrometricum. Huds. FI. Angl. p. 488. Scop. Carn. n. 1303. Web. Spic. Fl. Goett.
p. 113. H ull B r . Bot. p. 265.
BRYUM bulbiforme aureum, calyptra quadrangulari, capsulis pyriformibus nutantibus. Dill. Hist.
Muse. p . 407. t. 52. ƒ . 75.
BRYUM aureum, capitulis reflexis pyriformibus, calyptra quadrangulari, foliis in bulbi formam con-
gestis. Raii S yn .p . 101.
MUSCUS capillaceus, folio rotundiore, capsula oblonga incurva. Rupp. Sen. p. 400.
MUSCUS foliis scutellatis, capitulo pyriforme nutante. Vaill. Bot. Par. p. 135. t. 26. f . 16.
Class a n d Order, Etc. See FUNARIA HIBERNICA.
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