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Bryum Brotvnii ; very small and barren. A very variable 

 moss in size. Small states have the point of the leaf nearly 

 entire ; but there is always some trace of the teeth, which are 

 so evident in the larger forms. The presence of these teeth 

 with rusty foliage, and the habit of the whole moss, seem to 

 indicate a close affinity with several Andean species ; and the 

 Austral Tortula serrulata, Hook, et Grev., in which the 

 peristome is more decidedly that of Tortula. D. rubellus is 

 in Europe from the sea to the highest mountains a common 

 moss, and it is found also in North Africa and Northern India 

 as well as in British North America, but is said to be rare in 

 the United States. A very similar species is found in 

 central America, and another in New Zealand, but it cannot 

 be said to be distinctly traced south of the Equator. 



Encalypta rhabclocarpa, Schw. — Floeberg Beach ; with 

 young fruit. Mushroom Point ; adhering to a fragment of 

 Peliigera, with capsule past maturity; July, 1876. A 

 boreal Subalpine and Alpine species, which in America does 

 not reach the United States. 



Voitia hyperborea, Grrev. et Arn. — Floeberg Beach ; in 

 fine condition, with fruit in several stages. In one of the 

 specimens of this elegant moss the stems are a portion of a 

 tuft more than two inches in height. A single abnormal 

 capsule is present among the specimens ; it has the point 

 produced into an erect beak, which is about three times 

 longer than the diameter of the capsule : the calyptra had 

 been removed. 



Splachnum Worniskioldii^ Hornem. — Hayes Sound, 

 Floeberg Beach, and Mushroom Point ; all fertile. An 

 elegant Arctic species which in Europe reaches the Scandi- 

 navian mountains. 



Tetraplodon urceolatus, B. and S. — Mushroom Point, 

 and Port P\>ulke. This species is not known to grow further 

 south than the Alps, and although found in British North 

 America, it does not occur in the United States. Its congener, 

 T. mnioides, which grows also in the same Arctic and Alpine 

 regions, but which also is able to maintain itself at consider- 



