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the back in the upper part. Capsule curvei], not sti-iate. 

 Pedicel red, short. Described from specimeusTound by Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson at bottom of canyon below the bridge, Elk River, Rocky 

 Mountains, but also found in JSIcKay's woods, Ottawa, at the base 

 of trees : also in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. 

 D. STENODiCTYON, Kiudb. N. sp. 



Allied to the last species. Dioecious. Tufts very dense, blackish 

 brown, only the top leaves straw yellow, 2-3 cm. high. Leaves 

 flexuous, not undulate or crispate, short ovate lanceolate, short 

 acuminate and blunt ; mai-gins flat above the middle, densely ser- 

 rate above, more or less denticulate below ; cell walls not porose ; 

 upper cells oblong, lower sublinear, alar hyaline, faintly brown ; 

 costa narrow, not percurrent, simply dentate at back. Barren. 

 The colour of the plant resembles llypnum sarmentosiim. In 

 damp woods at Ironsides, P.Q. October 1884. 



Bryum (Rhodobryum) Ontariense, Kindb. N. sp. 



Intermediate between Bryum roseuui and Bryiivh Beyrichii (Hersch.) 

 0. Muller. 



Comal leaves very numerous. Ungulate, abruptly and short-acuminate, 

 revolute to f^ or |, yellow-margiueJ above with great confluent 

 teeth ; costa stout, excurrent. Capsule pale, with a distinct curved 

 and doubly shorter collum ; teeth papillose and hyaline above ; 

 archegonia numerous ; lid coxa vex, short apiculate, not oblique. 



Hitherto confounded with Bri/um roseum, and quite common 

 throughout Ontario, generally in a barren state. On old logs in 

 all maple woods around Ottawa. Barren. 

 Leskea nigrescens, Kindb., N. sp. 



Plants very small, densely tufted, blackish -green, stems short, 

 creeping, pinnate. Stem leaves close, appressed when dry, open 

 erect when moist, at base broadly ovate and scarcely reflexed, 

 acuminate, entire, obscurely but faintly papillose, branchlet 

 leaves erect, very much smaller and looser, blunt at the short 

 acumen ; cells round-oval, costa obsolete rarely reaching to the 

 middle. Diojcious. Only barren specimens found. 



This species ceuld possibly be referred to the genus Ileterocladium ^. . 

 but the costa is not furcate. z^O^'**^ 



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