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BRACiivTiir:crL'.\i rsEuiH)-ALi;icAxs, Kindb. n. sp. 



Differs from the true B. albicans (Neck.), in having the leaves 

 looser, sub-distichous, shorter-acuminate, faintly striate, dentic- 

 ulate all around; the alar cells greater, all the basal cells finally 

 reddish. Barren. 



No. 235 Canadian Musci in part. On the sand spit and in 



woods on the ground at Comox, Vancouver Island, May q, 

 1887. 



Bkaciiythecium L.^]:vrsKTUM, Kindb. n. sp. 



lldh'xt o^ B. populeuni. Plants caespitose, green and glossy. 

 Stem irregularly ramulose. Leaves close, sub-erect, open, ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate and acute, sulcate; borders serrulate from 

 the middle upwards ; basal cells dilatate ; costa long, reaching at 

 least to two-thirds. Capsule small, incurved, oblong; outer teeth 

 hyaline- margnied, light brown, cilia short and not appendiculate ; 

 perichetial leaves nerveless ; lid highly convex not aplculate ; 

 pedicel very smooth. Momecious. 



In small quantity on a rotten log in the valley of Eagle 

 River, Craigallachie, Gold Range, British Columbia, July 17, 

 1889. Coll. J. Macoun. No. 326, Canadian Mosses. 



ISOTIIECIUM Cardoti, Kindb. Mss. 

 On the base of trees in the open woods, Hastings, B. C, also 

 on logs near Victoria, Vancouver Island. A very beautiful 



species 



ISOTIIECIUM M\URCELLUM, Kindb. n. sp. ' 



Tufts very loose, dark green, not glossy. Stems creeping ; 

 branches (secondary stems) erect, tree-like and ramose ; branch- 

 lets curved, attenuate. Leaves of the branchlets appressed when 

 dry, small, ovate, blunt or short acuminate, twice serrate or den- 

 ticulate all around, smooth, scarcely reflexed on the borders; alar 

 cells round-quadrate, the middle ones narrow, upper rhombic ; 

 costa long, three-fourths the length of the leaf. Perichetial leaves 

 nerveless, oblong with a long, denticulate, horizontally patent 

 acumen and narrow cells. Capsule oval-oblong, inclined ; seg- 

 ments with a low basilar membrane and two short cilia; annu- 

 lus double ; lid conical acuminate ; pedicel smooth. Dioecious. 



On decaying logs in woods around Victoria and at Nanalmo 

 River, Vancouver Island, April 26, 1S87. 



EURIIVNCIIIUM DawsOxNI, Kindb. n. sp. 



Stems densely pinnate, not or rarely radiculose ; branchlets 

 patent. Leaves green or brownish, not glossy, not or indistinctly 

 papillose, not long acuminate from the broad ovate base, re- 



