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very important, however, to correct Kindberg’s confusing remarks 
regarding £. Macounii Aust. and E. ciliata Hedw. 
Encatypta Macouni Aust. Bot. Gaz. 2: 97-1877. hai BF 
Man. 182, 1884. Macoun’s Cat. 6: 94-95 only in part (1892). 
The type of this species is preserved in Austin’s Herbarium 
at Columbia College. The specimens are abundant though im- 
mature. They have been compared with the original description, 
Which is copied in Lesquereux and James Manual. All the state- 
ments but one have been verified; the seta is described as “ min- 
utely papillose, rather densely so above the middle.” They have 
been examined with a magnification of 330 diameters, and out of 
a dozen pedicels on none of them has been found a trace of 
roughness. 
Austin compared it to Z. affinis Hedw. (EZ. apophysata, N. & H.). 
We have also made the same comparison with No. 816 of Raben- 
horst’s Bryotheca Europaea, and find that Austin was right. The 
calyptra agrees exactly in having pale irregular papillae to the 
fringed base, though we should call it rather minutely scabrous 
than « densely papillose.” But the leaf characters are also very 
plain, the margins being strongly revolute, the vein ending below 
the apex, and very rough on the back with double papillae; the 
basal cells are clear with the short transverse walls, yellow and 
thickened into ridges and also papillose. This is true also of £. 
affinis, but the vein in that species is excurrent into an awn. The 
Peristome is described by Austin as “single, the teeth of medium 
length, very narrow and filiform, red, more or less split into two 
€qual segments, nodulose and granulose.” This agrees with the 
figures of £. apophysata in the Bryologia Europaea, but Lim- 
Pricht says the peristome is double and has a short basal mem- 
brane, one-third the length of the teeth, which he figures as 247, 
Page 118. We have been able to detect this in No. 816 of Rab. 
Byoth. Eu. even when the peristome is old, but not in Austin’s 
specimens. This would add another distinction between £. apophy- 
Sata and E. Macounit, though they are evidently closely allied. 
The type locality is «On rocks, Stewart's Lake Mountain, B. 
C., collected by Macoun, June 21, 1875. ue 
On consulting Macoun’s Catalogue, I find this locality is not 
given the first place as it should be, and that the specimens sent 
