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Leaves small, short, ovate-lanceolate, acute, mutlcous or indis- 

 tinctly piliferous, flat on the borders, the uppermost and the pcri- 

 chetial ones longer and narrower with a smooth and long hair- 

 point ; cells quadrate, chlorophyllose, the lower hyaline, short- 

 rectangular ; costa percurrent. Inflorescence dioecious. Capsule 

 exscrted, wide-mouthed when' empty, not rugose nor striate; 

 teeth orange, nearly entire, spreading when dry ; lid mammil- 

 late ; pedicel arcuate, elongate, pale. Differs from G. plagiopo- 

 dia in the longer acute leaves and the pedicel very much longer 

 than capsule. 



On rocks on the summit of the Gold Range, north of Griffm 



Lake, B. C. Alt. 7,000 feet. Aug. 10, 1889. 



RACO-MrrRTUM RoiiUSTiFOLiu^r, Kindb. n, sp. 



Differs from R, Macouuii in the leaves being less crispate, pel- 

 lucid, more reflexed on the borders, often furnished with a short 

 liairpoint. Capsule oval, striate or plicate when dry; teeth dark 

 purple-brown, deeper cleft, papillose; the beak of the lid oblique, 

 needle shaped, very much shorter than the capsule; pedicel . 

 slightly curved. 



Both these species differ from R, varinvi in the short pedicel 



and the longer leaves. 



Mount Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island, alt. 5,700 feet, July 



17, T887. 



' RacoMITKIUM BRE\ IPES, Kindb. n. sp. 



Habit of R, hcicrostichiun or R. cancscens. Plants dirty 

 ureen ; branches nodose with numerous short branchlets. 



Leaves very faintly papillose, ovate-lanceolate, long- acuminate, 



more or less revolute, hair-point 



long and rough ; 



cells yellow. 



the upper short or elongate, the alar distinctly quadrate. Capsule 

 small, oblong-cylindrical with a short oblique beak ; pedicel short, 

 0.5 cm. Peristome not examined.* 



On sloping garnetiferous rocks near the summit of the Gold 

 Range, north of Griffin Lake. British Columbia; alt. 6,700 feet. 

 Aug. 8, 1889. Coll. John Macoun. No. 395, Canadian Mosses. 

 Var. ericoidcs, B. and Sch. (Bry. Eu. t. 271). 



On rocks at Victoria, Vancouver Island, and at Hastings and 

 North Arm Burrard Lilet, B. C, 1889. 

 Var. MUTICUM, Kindb. n. var. 



Leaves without a hair-point; cells yellow; costa absent. 

 Barren. On rocks summit of Gold Range, at Griffin Lake, B. C. 



Aug. 18S9. 



