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H. (Harpidium) L0N(;ixerve, Kindb. 



In Bulletin, xvi. 97, this species is described as DicJiclyma 

 lofigincfve. Later examinations have shown it to be a true Har- 

 piditini, 



H. {^Rhytidiuvi) rohitstiuny Hook. 



Very abundant on the slopes of Mounts Benson and Arrow- 

 smith, Vancouver Island. This is the plant upon which Austin 

 founded Hyloconthtin Flonniiiigii, He saw neither flowers nor 

 fruit. It was fruiting abundantly in 1S87. 

 H. subimpone7is, Lesq., var. CRISTUJ>UM, Kindb. n. van 



Hypmim cristiditvi, Kindb. enuni. bryineae. exot., 1888. Inter- 

 mediate between H. fertile and fL eiHsta-castrensis, Stems regu- 

 larly pinnate, rootless. Leaves green or brownish-green, estriatc, 

 filiform-pointed, the point a little shorter than the lanceolate base. 

 Capsule yellow, cylindric narrow, faintly curved, sub-erect; teeth 

 at the base pale yellow, hyahne above; perichetial leaves faintly 

 striate. Probably dioecious. 



Quite common on rocks in oak woods around Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island, April 17, 1887. 



Hypnum (DuErANiUM) Canadense, Kindb. n. sp. 



Intermediate between //. impojicns and H. stib-imponens. 

 Dioecious. Densely crcspitose, yellow or pale green. Stems 

 creeping, densely pinnate-ramulose ; branches robust, thick and 

 tumid. Leaves close, falcate, with elongate-ovate or oblong base 

 and short acumen, faintly or not striate, more or less denticulate 

 all around, not reflexed on the borders, larger than In H. impo- 

 nens ; cells very narrow, the alar (one or two) large and pellucid, 

 the other basal cells yellow; paraphyllia few, subulate, Perigo- 

 nial leaves very broad-ovate, abruptly narrowed to a straight 

 subulate point. 



No. 314 Canadian Mosses. On rotten logs at the summit 

 level of the Canadian Pacific Railway, near Hecton, Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Alt 5,300 feet. July 23, 1885. 



H. (Limnouium) rsEUDO-ARCTlcuM, Kindb. n. sp. 



Differs from //. aretienni in the leaves being crcnulate at least 

 above the middle; costa short and double, not reaching to the 

 middle ; perichetial leaves short-acuminate, serrulate. Inner 

 peristomal teeth rimose in the middle. Stem sparingly rooting. 



On stones in mountain brooks near Sicamous ; and in brooks 

 on mountains north of Griffin Lake, P. C.July 8, 1889. 



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