410 BRYACE^. [Hypnum. 



dry; operculum convex, niamillate; teetli orange, with a broad 

 yellow border; segments split their whole length ; cilia three, very 

 stout, as long as the segments; annulus simple. — S])ec. PI. 

 1124. Ilijlocomiwn triquetrum, Brucli and Schimp. Bryol. 

 Eur. t. 491. 



IlAn. Pine woods; plains and mountains. 



191. H. Flemniingii. Plants pale and robust ; stems sim- 

 ple, erect, rigid, obtuse at the apex : leaves cordate at base, broadly 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, very flexuous, squarrose, 

 subfalcate, deeply sulcate, minutely papillose at the apex, glossy, 

 bicostate at base ; areolatiou minute and narrowly subquadrate 

 at the angles ; borders minutely and closely serrulate above, 

 reflexed and ciliate at base ; nerves distant, narrow, reaching 

 neai-ly to the middle, ciliate at base : Howers and fruit unknown. 

 — ILjlocominm Flemmingii, Aust. Bull, Torr. Club, v. 24. 



Hab. Vancouver Island [Mucoun, 1872). 



The author says that this species is remarkable for the obtuse apex of 

 the leaf and the minute decompound cilia on the margins and nerves at 

 base. We have seen no specimen of this moss, which is probably a vari- 

 ety of IJ. nmhratiua. 



192. H. loreurn, Linn, Tufts drooping, loose, soft, pale 

 olive or yellowish green ; stems long, prostrate, nearly simple, 

 with the few dichotomous branches distantly and interruptedly 

 pinnate-ramulose ; branchlets long, flexuous, attenuate at the 

 often radiculose apex: leaves close, thin, broadly ovate and 

 sulcate at base, narrowly long-lanceolate and acuminate, falcate, 

 concave, serrulate at the apex, ecostate; areolatiou very narrow 

 and equal to the base; leaves of the branchlets ovate, subulate, 

 curved ; inner perichsetial leaves half-sheathing at base, subulate- 

 acuminate, ecostate : calyi)tra twisted, often left attached to the 

 pedicel : capsule subglobose, solid, reddish brown, sulcate when 

 dry, abru]itly horizontal on a strong flexuous pedicel twisted to 

 the right; lid large, convex, niamillate; annulus and peristome 

 as in 11. triquetrnm. — Spec. PI. 1127. Ilylocomiwn loreum^ 

 Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur, t. 490. 



Hab. Deep woods, Oregon (Hall)-, Rocky Mountains [Drummond); 

 British Columbia [Lyall, etc.); Alaska (Bischoff). 



