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regret that circumstances should^ till now, have prevented its 

 having been published in the way I had wished. It was 

 gathered by Mr. Menzies at Nootka Sound, in i;87; and 

 again, nearly forty years afterwards, upon the same line of 

 coast, by Dr. Scouler. 



This moss is quite unlike any species with which I am 

 acquainted, having almost as much the habit of a Hijpmim, 

 especially of the dendroid kind, as of a Bryum; but the fruc- 

 tification is truly terminal, all the shoots springing from 

 beneath the perichaetium. The situation of the male flowers, 



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too, if such they may be called, is equally terminal. In the 

 shape and texture and spinous nerve of the leaf, this plant 

 agrees with my Hypnum spinmervium {Muse. Eccot. t. 29.). 



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Fig. 1. Male plant. Fig. 2. Female plant {naL size). Fig. 3. Portion 



of the extremity of a female plant. Fig. 4, 5. Leaves. Fig. 6. 

 Perichsetial leaf. Fig. 1. External teeth of the peristome. 

 Fig. 8. Portion of the interior peristome. Fig. 9. Leaf which 

 surrounds the male flower. Fig. 10. Anther and one of the ac- 



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companying jointed filaments : — magnified. 



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BRYUM GIGANTEUM 



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^ryum giganteum i caule erecto simplici apice folioso, foliis ro.saceo- 

 congestis oblongo-spathulatis acutis marginatis serratis nervo ante 

 apicem evanescente, capsula cylindracea horizontali. (Tab, XX.) 



Hab, Locis petrosis, solo arenaceo, in facie septentrionali montis 



a. Wallich 



Cauli 



feme 



mento ferrugineo densissime obsitus, basi subrepens, superne non 

 raro proliferus, in sumnnim apicem solummodo foliosus. Folia 

 numerosa, magna, 8 lineas longa, in rosulam congesta patentia 

 vel erecto-patentia, oblongo-spathulata, viridia^ acuta, laxe reti- 

 culata, areolis oblongis, margine concolori incrassato, superne 



