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BOTANY. 
(Drummond ;) Colorado, (Hall ;) New Mexico, (Fendler, Wriglit.) In crev- 
ices of volcanic rocks near Carson City, Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude. (1,414.) 
Grimmia leucoph^a, Grev. All Europe ; Africa ; Australia ; ^lassa- 
chusetts and Southern Ohio; Fort Colville, (Lyall;) San Francisco. On 
limestone rocks in Secret Valley, East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 6,000 
feet altitude. (1,415.) 
Grimmia Montana, Br. & Sch. Western Europe ; Mount DiaV>lo and 
Mono Pass, California. In mountain canons, Nevada. (1,416.) 
Tayloria splachnoides, Schl. Norway and subalpine regions of Eu- 
rope ; Rocky Mountains of British America, (Drummond.) At Unionville in 
the West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude. (1,417.) 
PhyscOxMitrium pygm^um, James. Planta generis minima ; a P. pyri- 
formi distat exiguitate ; foliis minus distincte serratis ; capsula oblongo-pyri- 
formi, cellulis marginalibus transverse oblongis in seriebus 5-7 (nec 12-15) 
dispositis instructa, basi parcius stomatifera ; operculo longiore ; pedicello toto 
sinistrorsum torto ; etc. — The shape of the capsule, with its narrow adherent 
annulus, readily distinguishes this species from P. Idans^ Lindb. On the 
ground, mountain side above Parley's Park, in the Wahsatch ; 6,500 feet 
altitude. (1,418.) 
FuNARiA HiBERNiCA, Hook. Ireland and Western Europe ; Cajon Pass 
in the Sierras, Cahfornia. On rocks. Antelope Island in Salt Lake, Utah ; 
4,500 feet altitude. (1,419.) 
FuNARiA HYGROMETRICA, Hedw. In all cpiarters of the world, including 
Australia, New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands ; very common in the east- 
ern United States, and found from Iklagalik and Nulato, Alaska, and the 
wooded regions of British America to the Saskatchewan, California, and 
Nortliwestern Mexico. On stream-banks, in w^et meadows and under sage- 
brush, in the mountains and valleys of Nevada and Utah; 4,300-7,000 feet 
altitude. (1,420.) 
Var. CALVESCENS, Br. & Sch. Tropical regions. In a meadow near 
Carson City, Nevada ; 4,500 feet altitude. (1,421.) 
Leptobryum pyriforme, Dill. Europe, Asia, and in the Andes of South 
America ; frequent in the Eastern States, and extending to the Saskatchewan 
and wooded regions of British America, (Richardson, Drummond, Bourgeau,) 
Davis Strait, (Taylor,) the Rocky Mountains and Alaska ; Clear Lake, Mount 
Dana and the Sierras, California. On stream-banks in tlic West Humboldt, 
