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berg a specimen of Excalypta closely allied to £. ciliata, wrongly 
named £. Macounii, and from this false premise he has arrived at 
the above conclusions. Whether all the specimens cited in Ma- 
coun’s Catalogue as E. Macounii were sent to Kindberg is not 
clear, but probably this is not the case. It is likely that only a 
few of them were, and that the rest have been transferred without 
examination by Prof. Macoun in making up the list. 
We note one that was not transferred, for No. 132 Canadian 
Mosses is cited under £&. ciliata, with the label locality reading: 
“Crevices of rocks, common from Ottawa westward.” These 
specimens have been examined and compared with the types of 
£. Macounii, They are quite distinct in the excurrent vein, plane 
Margins, smooth calyptra, and the mouth bordered by 5-6 rows of 
hexagonal cells projecting above the base of the teeth. We have 
also examined all the other specimens in Austin’s herbarium sent 
to him by Macoun and named by Austin £. cata. These in- 
clude specimens collected at Stewart’s Lake, date and locality the 
same as type of 4. AMZacounit, but distinctly FE. ciata; also those 
from Lake Athabasca, August 29, 1875; Cascades, May 17, 1875 ; 
and Hastings county, August, 1874. All of these agree with the 
characters of E. ciliata as described by Limpricht, even to the size 
of the spores, but in many cases it is difficult to distinguish the 
Preperistome as described by him. The deep projecting border 
of the mouth is quite distinct, as well as the scattered stomata, 
with the surrounding cells not differentiated, but long and thick- 
ened longitudinally, The neck also is short, but always distinct, 
and sometimes stomatose, though usually the stomata are above 
the base of the sporesac. 
ENcatypra ciLiaTa (Hedw.) Hoffm. 
We find in the Jaeger Herbarium all the exsiccatae cited by 
Limpricht, and have critically compared No. 19 of his Bryotheca 
Silesiaca, with our specimens of Macoun’s Canadian Mosses No. 
132. and Sull. & Lesq. Musci bor. Am. No. 165, Ed. 2. We find 
they agree in all the characters described, with a certain amount 
of variation in the length of the awn, and the vein which is also 
Sometimes serrulate on the back for a short distance below the 
apex of the leaf; the margins are more or less undulate and 
slightly revolute below, erose papillose above, and the basal cells 
