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physibus filiformibus. Capsula in pedicello brevi, 1-2 millim. longo 

 exserta, pallide lutea, ovato-pyriformis, sicca subglobosa basi abrupte 

 constricta, madida sensim collo longo in pedicello defluente attenuata, 

 levis vel siccitate vix plicatula, cum collo 3 millim. longa, 1.5 crassa, 

 stomatibus emersis, fasciis subindistinctis, cellulis paululum flavidiori- 

 bus et magis incrassatis compositis, operculo depresso, longirostro. 

 Calyptra conico-campanulata, plicatula, pilis paucis albidis ornata, 

 apice brunnea. Vaginula nuda. Peristomium, ut videtur, simplex, 

 dentibus 8 bigeminatis, pallide luteis, granulosis, siccitate erectis vel 

 patentibus, in dimidio superiore cancellatis et cribroso-perforatis. 

 Sporas pro genero maximas, diam. 24-287.*, fuscae, papillosae. 



From St. Paul Island ( J. M. Macoun) . 



This moss was distributed as O. anomalum Hedw.,but it bears no 

 resemblance to that species. It is allied to O. cribrosum C. Mull, 

 from the Chukchi peninsula, Siberia, chiefly by the shape of the capsule 

 and the structure of the peristomial teeth, but it differs from it by its 

 larger size and the leaf-areolation, composed of less incrassate and less 

 papillose cells. In O. cribrosum the leaf-cells are strongly incrassate 

 and coarsely papillose from the base. 



Orthotrichum speciosum Nees v. Esenb. in Sturm, Deutsch. Fl., 

 fasc. 17. 



From Point Gustavus (Coville and Kearney, 791). 

 A doubtful specimen also from Wrangell (Trelease, 2314 in part). 



Orthotrichum pulchellum Brunt, in Engl. bot., pi. 1787. 



Prince of Wales Island (J. M. Macoun) ; Disenchantment Bay 

 (Trelease, 2513); Wrangell (Trelease, 2314 in part) ; Sitka (Tre- 

 lease, 2353). 



Family ENCALYPTACEJE. 



Encalypta vulgaris Hedw. Sp. muse., p. 60. 

 From Juneau (Setchell, 1233 in part). 



E. commutata Nees & Hornsch., E. rhabdocar-pa Schw., E. macounii Aust. 

 and E. alaskana Kindb. have been reported from Alaska. 



Family TETRAPHlDACE^E. 

 Tetraphis geniculata Girg. mss. Milde in Bot. Zeit., 1865, p. 155. 



From Port Etches (J. M. Macoun) ; Sitka (J. M. Macoun ; Tre- 

 lease, 2352, 2362, 2363) ; Virgin Bay (Trelease, 2306) ; Orca (Tre- 

 lease, 2263) ; Douglas Island (Trelease, 2394, 2401, 2413). 



Tetraphis pellucida Hedw. has also been reported from Sitka. 



