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curved on the borders below, long-decurrent, open-erect, dentic- 

 ulate all around, areolation variable, often sub-rhomboidal ; costa 

 thick, reaching nearly to the apex. Probably dioecious. 



Allied to E. hians and E. Sullivantii. 



On rocks along the Nanaimo River below the Railway Bridge, 

 Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, x\pril 27th, 1887. 



Plagiothcciuni sylvaticum, var. S(^UARROSUM, Kindb. n. var. 



This is a distinct variety, presenting a squarrose appearance 

 when dry. On earth at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B. C, April 



27, 1889. 



rLAGIOTlIECIUM (ISOPTERVGIUM) BTFARICELLUM, Kindb. n. sp. 



Plants small, sparingly radiculose, loosely cespitose, dark or 

 blackish green, not glossy. Stems rigid pinnate. Leaves loose, 

 small, spreading, smooth and not striate ; stem-leaves at the base 

 broadly ovate-cordate, decurrent, serrulate all around, abruptly 

 attenuate to the filiform, hooked-deflexed and sub-entire acumen; 

 cells narrow, linear, the basal oblong ; costa obsolete or reaching 

 to the middle. Dioecious. 



Wet places in woods at 



1S87. 



A. serpens, L., sub-species CoLUMBL'E, Kindb. n. sub-sp. 



May 



Leaves loose, spreading, serrulate all around, costa longer. 

 On earth in woods at Sicamous, B. C, July 19, 1S89. 



Hvi'XUM (CA^rPVLIUM) Macounii, Kindb. n. sp. 



hWxQAto Hypmim hispidulum. Habit of the European //■. 

 Halleri. Monoecious. Plants small, interlaced in dense brownish- 

 green tufts. Stems pinnate, prostrate, sparingly radiculose. 

 Leaves densely crowded, squarrose-recurved, round-deltoid,short- 

 acuniinate, rcflexed on the borders of the entire base to the den- 

 ticulate acumen ; alar cells quadrate, pellucid, not numerous, the 

 other short oblong or short lanceolate ; costa obsolete or none. 

 Capsule small narrow-cylindrical, slightly curved, annulus simple ; 

 basilar membrane low ; lid convex, obtuse and not apiculate ; 

 pedicel reddish-brown, smooth 2 cm. long. 



On earth by springs at Mount Stephen on the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, Rocky Mountains. Alt. 5,600 feet. July 28, 



1885. 



Hypnwn {Campy Hum) Sommerfeltii, Myrin. 



On the bases of trees at Hastings and Grififin Lake in the 

 Gold Range, B. C, 1889. 



