Br1J^m.] BRYACE^. 227 



upper large, open, tufted, broadly oblong-acuminate, carinate- 

 concave, with borders reflexed ; areolation large, hexagonal ; 

 costa strong, brownish, vanishing below or within the very- 

 entire apex : vaginule covered with paraphyses ; flowers bisex- 

 ual: capsule on a slender more or less elongated flexuous 

 pedicel, inclined or subpendent, oblong-pyriform, slightly 

 incurved, soft; peristome short, as in B. Warneiim. — Muse. 

 Recent. Suppl. iv. 120 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 332. 

 Hac. Peninsula of Shumagin, Alaska [Harrington). 



9. B. flexuosum, Aust. Plants loosely cespitose ; stem 

 dividing by short innovations, erect: leaves pale red, erect, 

 ovate, subconcave, acuminate, plane or recurved on the very 

 entire borders ; costa strong, ])ercurrent or excurrent : flowers 

 dioecious (?) ; male flowers terminal, large, discoid : capsule on 

 a long slender flexuous red pedicel, ovate-oblong, pale, subhori- 

 zontal ; lid large, depressed-conical, minutely mamillate ; inner 

 peristome adhering to the teeth ; cilia none. — Coult. Bot. Gaz. 

 iv. 152. 



Hab. Gravelly ground, Blackwater River, British Columbia [Macoun). 



Apparently nearly related to the last, if not a variety of it; differing only 

 in the inflorescence, which appears to be dioecious. Tiie short reddish 

 stems, and the long flexuous pedicel, which the author indicates as dis- 

 tinctive characters, are those of B. lacustre. 



10. B. calophy Hum, R. Brown. Plants gregarious or sub- 

 cespitose : stem-leaves distant, round-ovate, obtuse, the upper 

 closer, loosely imbricated in loose obtuse gemmules, the lower 

 broadly ovate or oval-oblong, narrowed into a short blunt point, 

 all fleshy, very concave and entire, with the border plane or 

 slightly recurved, not margined ; costa vanishing below the 

 apex ; pericluetial leaves smaller and narrower, the inner lan- 

 ceolate : male flowers gemmiform at the base of the female : 

 capsule pyriform, short-necked, slightly contracted under the 

 orifice when dry, abruptly pendent on a long strict rigid pedicel ; 

 segments of the inner membrane yellow, narrow and split ; cilia 

 none or solitary and rudimentary : spores large, green, smooth. 

 — App. Parry's Voy. Suppl. 296. JB. latifolium, Bruch <fc 

 Schimp. Bryol. Eur., t. 339. 



Hab. Melville Island (Parry)\ Franconia Mountains [James); Santa 

 Barbara, California ( W. L. Foster). 



11. B. uliginosum, Bruch & Schimp. Stem densely rad- 

 iculose, branching into short innovations: lower leaves short, 



