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that they are “ dark brown, short, subovoid, not contracted at the 
mouth, costate, pedicel short, scarcely emergent. Calyptra densely 
hairy.” 
Prof. Macoun has sent us all his specimens of this species, 
and we also have examined his Canadian mosses No. 557: . 
We are amazed to find that these are simply old plants of 
what we have been calling U. crispa, gathered in the autumn, with 
the old brown shrivelled capsules buried in the leaves, and pushed 
aside by the younger innovations, which bear at their summits 
the young and hairy calyptras of the next generation, just emerg- 
ing. The capsules including the setaand vaginule measure 4 mm. 
and have the long tapering neck of this species, the peristome re 
mains in fragments, and the ridges are prominent, of 4—5 rows of 
brown cells, with the spaces between them contracted and thin. 
We have compared the leaves also, and they agree. Furthermore 
we have specimens from various collectors and localities, in pre 
cisely this same stage of development, notably those collected om 
rocks! near Madison, Wisconsin, by Messrs. True and Cheney- 
(Date not given), 
ULora camptoropa Kindb.; Macoun, Cat. 6, 85 (1892) Cana- 
dian mosses, No. 582. | a 
We have seen the specimens cited above, and compared them 
with the description. The capsules are either too old or 100 
young for satisfactory determination, but even on the old capsules 3 
we have seen cilia; the description says there are none! The eo 
comparisons with U. maritima and U. Ludwigii after the descrip” 
tion are wild ones. It has no specific relation to either! Its o 
alliance is clearly with U. crispa, and it is to this species or U. 
crispula that it should be referred, but there are no capsules M@ 
tured. 
WEISSIA MEGALOSPORA (Vent). 
Ulota megalospora Vent. Bot. Centr. 44: 389 Uae) Hedwigi@, a 
32: 269 (1893). S 
Dr. Venturi says that this is perhaps one of the most interest: : 
ing mosses in Roll’s collection. {t has a cladogenous fruit a5 bc 
Ulota Drummondii and U. Ludwigii, but it corresponds to the 
group of U. crispa, and U. Bruchii in the crisped leaves; it is 
