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* B.Gaspeanum Kindb. 1. c. Hostia Em 
Nearly all leaves narrow: uppermost short-decurrent, lower 
sublimbate; costa sometimes long-excurrent. Capsules unknown. 
— Wet rocks. r. Amer. Can.: Macoun. 
13.B.alpiniforme Kindb. cat. Can. m. 
Leaves not reflexed, ovate-oblong short-acuminate or apiculate; 
. cells subrhombic; costa gen. short-excurrent. Capsules unknown. 
Tufts somewhat. dense. — Rocks r. Amer. Can.: Macoun. - 
B. Leaves us. red, gen. not much distant, limbate; costa 
percurrent or short-excurrent; shoot-leaves us. decurrent. Cap- 
sule shorter than neck, not or indistinctly constricted below 
mouth, often oblique. 
14.B.pallens Swartz. 
© Leaves us. reflexed to above middle, ovate-oblong or subob- 
ovate, acute or acuminate, entire or nearly so, brownish or 
yellow limbate, somewhat twisted when dry. Capsule us. oblique 
with often curved neck; teeth yellow; endostome nearly orange; 
lid mamillate; cilia sometimes not appendiculate; spores.r. large. 
Stem us. low (about 1 c. m.) and sparingly radiculose near 
base. Tufts loose. Easily confounded with B. arcticum. — 
Moist earth, sometimes on stone-walls, often in alps. Eur. 
common. Sweden, Norway, Switzerl]| Amer. r. Can.: Macoun. 
* B.rufescens Kindb. n. subsp. 
Leaves very distant, entire, faintly or not reflexed, spreading - 
when dry. Tufts dense rufescent 6—8 c. m. high. Capsules 
unknown. — Alp. districts r. Eur. Norway, near Kongswold! 
* B.fallax Milde. 
Leaves scarcely reflexed, oval-ovate narrowly limbate us. not. 
red; costa gen. percurrent. Capsule us. not oblique; lid api- — 
culate; cilia not appendiculate. Tufts low less loose. — Wet - 
rocks prine. in higher alp. region r. Eur. Norway! France: 
Boulay. Amer. Alaska: J. M. Macoun. 
* B.baldense Venturi. | 
»Capsule symmetric; cilia not appendiculate. Costa of leaves 
gen. abbreviate. — Calcareous alp; rocks r. Eur. Austria»: Vent. 
C. Leaves us. greenish, more or less loosely disposed. Cap- 
sule strangulate, not oblique. 
a. Leaves obtuse; costa abbreviate. jn 
15.B.eyclophyllum Schwegrichen. — Mnium Schw.; Bryum B. E. 
Leaves not distinctly limbate, round-oval or broadly obovate, 
loosely disposed, not distinctly decurrent, not or scarcely rè - 
flexed. Capsule brown-yellow; neck short. Stems not or loosely 
