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172.B.nutaus Schreber. — Webera Hedwig. 
Leaves . ovate-lanceolate acuminate acute: upper narrower, 
faintly reflexed; costa r. subexcurrent. Capsule oval-oblong us. 
brown-red sometimes. bicolored; cilia r. appendiculate. — Earth, 
rocks and swamps common. Eur. Sweden ete.! Amer. Can.: 
Maeoun; Waghorne. U. S: Roell. 
* B.euspidulatum Kindb. n. subsp 
Perichetial leaves long-subulate gen. not reflexed; costa gen. 
long-excurrent. Stem very short. Dioecious. — Alps r. Eur. 
Norway! 
* B.eanalieulatum C. M. et Kindb. — Webera cat. Can. m. 
Perichetial leaves with thicker, canaliculate sometimes excur- 
rent costa. Cilia long-appendiculate. Lowest leaves short-de- 
current. Spores larger. — Wet earth r. Amer. Can. Vane. isl: 
Macoun. 
* B.camptotrachelum Renauld et Cardot. 
. Leaves erect but much longer than in B. annotinum; periche- 
tial gen. with excurrent costa. Capsule sometimes with cur- 
ved neck. Stem very short. Divecious. — Amer. r. »U. S.»: 
Cardot. 
* B.Macounii Kindb. n. subsp. 
All leaves, also on sterile stems and shoots, distinctly ser- 
rate, not glossy, finally red, densely crowded, appressed when 
dry. — Rocks r. Amer. Can. Vane. isl.: J. Macoun. 
^b. Leaves nearly entire. Dioecious or polygamous with sub- 
discoid male flowers. Capsule with mamillate lid. 
173.B.Schimperi C. Mueller. 
Capsule brownish narrow; teeth pale. Leaves reflexed. Tufts 
often high and purplish. — Alp. swamps r. Eur. Scotl.: herb. 
Milde. Amer. Can. northern Labrador: Macoun.  »Greenl.»: 
Berggren. : 
174.B.Sphazni »Bridel»: C. Mueller. — B. sphagnicola Br. eur. 
Capsule pale brown; teeth yellowish; pedicel yellowish often 
very long. Leaves not reflexed, gen. distant. Stems r. tufted, 
— Turf-moors r.. Eur. Sweden, Norway! Germany: Geheeb. 
Amer. Can: Macoun. 
3. Pulchelliformia. 
A. Capsule strangulate; teeth brown-red; annulus none. 
Leaves crowded; cells wide, the upper subrhombic. 
175.B.earneum L. — Webera Schimper; Mniobryum Limpricht. 
Leaves. broadly ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong short-acumi- 
nate not decurrent; costa red not percurrent. Capsule broad oval 
