Some authors begin to suspect that all the species are not <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />different from each other: but be that as it may, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />common <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>F.</abbr> <expan>Funaria</expan> </choice> hygrometrica</name> of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName> is as common in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> america</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />It is found also, (growing with a species <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>F.</abbr> <expan>Funaria</expan> </choice> calvescens</name>, which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is purely tropical,) in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150">South america</placeName>, as at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010546 https://www.geonames.org/3451190">Rio janeiro</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010783 https://www.geonames.org/3652462">Quito</placeName> (? <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>v.</abbr> <expan>vide</expan> </choice> <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a230f989-cbea-4b80-b0f9-89cbea4b80c9" corresp="#c5c4df50-5104-4a11-84df-5051047a11b9" type="editorialNote"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/F35ISNB4"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700"><choice> <abbr>H.</abbr> <expan>Humboldt</expan> </choice></persName> & <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003476 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118661604"><choice> <abbr>B.</abbr> <expan>Bonpland</expan> </choice></persName> synopsis</bibl></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="c5c4df50-5104-4a11-84df-5051047a11b9" corresp="#a230f989-cbea-4b80-b0f9-89cbea4b80c9" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/F35ISNB4">Kunth 1822–1825</bibl>, I, 56.</note>). – <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>F.</abbr> <expan>Funaria</expan> </choice> flavicans</name> is found in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890">North</placeName> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150">South america</placeName>, and <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>F.</abbr> <expan>Funaria</expan> </choice> muhlenbergii</name> is common <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009136 https://www.geonames.org/6252001">United States</placeName> & the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008891">middle of Europe</placeName>.