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country between the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of 

 the Columbia and other places on the north-west coast of 

 America. It does not/howcver^ appear to extend to the cast 

 of that chain. Beautiful specimens will be published in 

 Mr. Driimmond's forthcoming volume of American Mosses. 



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Fig. 1. Plants {naL size). Fig. 2. Leaf. 



Fig. 3, Terminal leaf, ' 



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Fig. 4. Portion of the same. Fig. 5. Extremity of a fertile 

 branch. Fig. 6. Calyptra. Fig. 1. Capsule before the oper- 

 culum has separated from it Fig. 8. Mature capsule after the 

 dispersion of the seed. Fig. 9. Portion of the peristome. Fig. 10. 

 Teeth of the same. Fig. 11. Seeds: — viore or less magnified. 



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