FUNARIA SERRATA, Beauv.
Tab. 54.
Plantæ annuæ vel biennes, gregariæ, vel cæspitulos laxos tristius virides efformantes.
Caulis 2–4-linearis. dimidio inferiore radiculoso defoliatus, superne conferte foliosus.
Folia 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.
Flores monoici, utriusque sexus terminales: flos masculus specie in ramo radicali.
Capsula in pedicello longo sicco tota longitudine sinistrorsum torto pyriformis, erecto-incurva, orificio obliquo; annulo nullo; sporis majusculis; operculo deplanato-convexo apiculato; calyptra generis.
Funaria serrata, Beauv. in Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 57; Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Musc. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 76; Sulliv. Musc. Alleghan. No. 126; C. Müll. Synop. Musc. 2, p. 542; nec Bryol. Europ. t. 324.
Hab. 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. F. convexa, 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.
