— 998 — 
44.G.microtricha C. M. et Kindb. 1. c. ' vio 
‘Differs from the last: Leaves with short hairpoint and shorter, 
less distinctly sinuous cells. Capsule oblong brown; lid short- 
conic; pedicel distinctly exserted. Dioecious or (on distinct 
branches) monoecious. Tufts blackish below. — Subalp. region - 
r. Amer. Can. Brit. Col: Macoun. iis 
B. Tufts not or loosely cohering, 3—8 c. m. high. Gen. 
dioecious r. fruiting. : 
a. Leaves sublinear subobtuse, appressed when dry; lower - 
cells not sinuous; hairpoint us. indistinct. 
45.G.elongata Kaulfuss. 
Leaves somewhat short and short-acuminate, faintly recurved 
below at one side; cells yellow in younger state: upper round- 
quadrate sinuous, middle and alar short-rectangular; hairpoint 
short often wanting. Capsule oval pale brown; lid short-eonic 
obtuse, "Tufts blackish when dry, brown-green when moist, 
somewhat. low and more cohering in fruiting, state. — Alp. 
region. r.. Eur, Norway! Austria: Venturi... Amer. Can.: 
Macoun. p : 
b. Leaves ovate-lanceolate acute, nearly appressed when dry; | 
nearly all cells (exc. at base near costa) sinuous. Upper leaves —— 
with short. hairpoint. Ho 
46.G.microcarpa Gmelin. — Bryum Gm.; Grimmia Lindb; —— 
Racomitrium sudeticum Br. eur. ae 
Leaves more or less recurved below; upper and middle cell - 
short, the alar uniseriate quadrate more dilated. Capsule sub- 
oval small; lid rostrate. Perichetial leaves with sublinear aeu- 
men. Tufts blackish or dark brown when dry. — Moist alp. 
rocks gen. rz. Eur. Norway, Spain! |Amer.. Can. Brit. Col: 
Macoun. : is 
47.G.attenuata C. M. et Kindb. — Raeomitrium C. M. et 
Kindb. 1. c. peo 
Leaves recurved nearly all around, suberect and nearly | 
straight when moist; upper cells short, the middle rectangular, - 
the alar long narrow often pluriseriate, Capsule suboval; lid 
subobtuse or apiculate: Tufts fuseous green above, blackish” 
below. Habit of G. elatioy, — Alp. region r. Amer. Can. Brit | 
Col: Maeoun. | oe 
€. Leaves sublinear acute appressed when dry; lower basal 
cells not sinuous; hairpoint of upper leaves long.  Dioecious. 
Capsules unknown, doo P MB 
