Encalypta.] BRYACE^. 183 



8-striate, twisted to the left and narrower when dry, its long 

 purple pedicel generally twisted to the right or to the left just 

 under the capsule ; teeth of the outer peristome 16, long, linear, 

 marked by a dividing line, distantly articulate, purple; inner 

 peristome of 16 cilia, opposite and similar to the teeth, yellowish, 

 very papillose, attached to a broad yellow membrane protruding 

 into 16 short reddish cilia between the teeth, sometimes bifid at 

 base and connivent into a cone when dry ; annulus double. — 

 Bruch & Schimp., Bryol. Eur. t. 205. E. loagipes. Mitt. Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. viii. 29, t. 5. 



Hab. Shady ravines, British America (Drummond, 3Iacoun). 



Upon examination of the specimens of E. lowjipes, Mitt., in all of 

 Drummond's sets, the characters liave been found identical witli those of 

 E.procera: the plants monoecious; calyptra papillose, its borders emar- 

 ginate, erose or fimbriate at base; perichastial leaves piliferous; capsule 

 spirally striate, etc. The differences that appear in the characters indi- 

 cated by Mitten result from the unripeness of the specimen he had for 

 examination. 



7. E, Selwyni, Aust. Differs from the preceding species 



especially in its smaller size, the leaves more or less revolute, 



the upper ones broadly Ungulate with a long hyaline hair-point 



formed by the excurrent costa, which is densely papillose and 



reddish downward, and in the minutely and remotely papillose 



calyptra descending much below the base of the capsule, deeply 



laciniate and brown at the j^ersisting base : capsule solid, 



strongly sulcate and distinctly twisted to the right, cylindrical ; 



peristome glabrous, long, the outer teeth dark red, filiform, 



distantly nodulose, the inner yellow, with the cilia nearly as 



long as the teeth and arising from a broad membrane. — Coult. 



Bot. Gaz. ii. 109. 



Hab. Vancouver Island {Macoun). 



Intermediate between E. procera and E. streptocarpa. 



8. E. streptocarpa, Hedw. Dioecious : plants robust and 

 of large size : leaves oblong-lingulate, muticous ; costa reddish, 

 ascending to the apex; perichsetial leaves oblong at base, 

 abruptly narrowed into a long lanceolate point : calyptra very 

 long, prolonged much below the base of the capsule, dirty 

 brown : capsule long and long-pedicellate, cylindrical, twisted 

 to the left, orange-striate, spirally furrowed when dry ; teeth 

 filiform, separated to the base, minutely papillose, purple, erect ; 

 cilia numerous, irregular, more or less connate, half as long as 



