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Bryological Notes, 



[P^or many years Prof. J. Macoun, Naturalist to the Geologi- 

 ; cal and Natural History Survey of Canada, has been collecting, 



( examinhig, and having accurately determined, by eminent bryo- 



logists, the moss flora of the Dominion of Canada. During the 

 past winter he has issued the first century of a series of the 

 Canadian Cryptogams, which will be followed by others. At the 

 last session of the Canadian Royal Society, held in Ottawa, he 

 read a paper, the combined production of himself, Dr. Kindberg, 

 of Linkoping, Sweden, Dr. G. Venturi, Austria, and Dr. Dusen, 

 Sweden. The latter gentlemen examined all the specimens 

 and their determinations are embodied in the paper, together 

 with descriptions of all the new species and varieties. 



Up to the present time, 888 + species of mosses are recorded 

 from all North America north of Mexico. In the paper submitted, 

 467 species were enumerated, and of these forty-one were new 

 i species and sixteen new varieties. Besides those new to science. 



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twenty-seven others were added to those enumerated in ** Lesque- 

 reux and James' Mosses of North America." As only about 



two-thirds of Mr. Macoun's species have been examined, and 

 much material is still in his hands to work up, we may confi- 

 - dently look forward to many more additions when the remainder 

 of the paper shall appear next year. — Ed.] 



LIST OF NEW SPECIES NAMED BY KINDHERG. 



Dicranella parvtila, Rocky Mountains. 



Dicnmiivi scopariforme^ D. stenodictyon^ Rocky Mountains ; 

 D, subulifolmm, D. Columbiae, Vancouver Island ; D, sulcatu7n, 

 D. nigosiim, Nova Scotia. 



Barbula inegalocarpa, Vancouver Island. 



Grimnia araiattfolia, ** '* 



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Raconiitritun Macoimii, Rocky Mountains; R. obscitriun, Van- 

 couver Island. 



Merceya latifolia^ Vancouver Island. 



Physcomitrium megalocarptcm, Vancouver Island. 



Philo7wtis leiophylla, Vancouver Island. 



Bryitm angustirete^B. Vancoitverense, B. hydrophihun, B. mecse- 

 oidcs, Vancouver Island ; B. denticulatinn. Rocky Mountains. 



