FUNAUIA FLAVICANS, Michx.
Tab. 53.
Plantæ annuæ, raro bienncs, teneræ, in cæspitibus laxis læte viridibus degentes, basi radiculis intertextæ.
Caulis 3–10 lincas altus, inferne subnudus, supernc congesto-foliosus.
Folia 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.
Flores monoici terminales: nos masculus subdiscoidens in caule primario; feminens in innovations propria tandem prævalente; antheridiis oblongis; parapliysibus longioribus numerosis apice valde inflatis.
Capsula 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.
Funaria flavicans, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 303; Schwægr. Suppl. t, 65; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 158; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 50.
Hab. 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
