1904] CARDOT AND THERIOT: MOSSES OF NORTH AMERICA 377 
FONTINALIS OBSCURA Card. Minn. Bot. Stud. 3: 120. 1903.— 
In the note following the description of this species, the phrase : 
“It belongs to the section HETEROPHYLLAE” should be stricken 
out. 
CLIMACIUM AMERICANUM Brid. var. pseudo-Kindbergii Card. & 
Thér., var. nova.— Habitu C. Kindbergit omnino simile, sed areo- 
latione cum C. americano exacte congruit. 
Missouri: Paw Paw Junction, on old log; Pleasant Grove, on wet bank 
(C. F. Bush, 1897 and 1899). 
Contrary to the opinion of Dr, A. J. Grout, we think that C. Aindbergit 
cannot be distinguished specifically from C. americanum. We have speci- 
mens on which the distinctive characters become attenuated. The plant of 
which we make the var. pseudo-Kindbergti is just one of these forms. 
LEscuRAEA sTRIATA Br. Eur. fasc. 46-47. 
Labrador: Lack Harbour, on rocks (Rev. Arthur C, Waghorne). 
This specimen, sent by Waghorne as ZL. saxico/a Milde seems to us nearer 
lous; yet it differs from the European type by the shorter acumen of the 
leaves, distinctly denticulate towards the apex. Pseudoleskea substriata Best 
has much smaller leaves, but is also merely a form of Z. s¢riata. 
Brachythecium subasperrimum Card. & Thér., sp. nova.—Laxe 
intricato-cespitosum, lutescenti-viride, nitidulum. Caulis gracilis, 
3-6™ longus, prostratus, radicosus, ramis inaequalibus attenuatis, 
ascendentibus irregulariter pinnatus. Folia caulina erecto- 
patentia, e basi decurrente deltoidea, sensim longe et anguste 
acuminata, vix plicatula, sublaevia, 1.8-2™" longa, 0.75™™ lata, 
Marginibus basi leniter reflexis, subintegris vel inferne parce 
denticulatis, costa angusta, 364 basi crassa, medium versus evan- 
ida, cellulis mediis linearibus, angustis, 60-85» longis, 6 latis, 
basilaribus laxioribus, hyalinis, rectangulis vel subhexayonis ; 
folia ramea oblonga, longe et anguste acuminata, nec deltoidea, 
Nec decurrentia, distinctius plicatula, 1.6™ longa, 0.5™™ lata, 
Marginibus plus minus longe revolutis, superne minute denticula- 
tis. Folia perichaetialia enervia, e basi ovata amplexicauli in 
acumen patulum vel reflexum, angustum, elongatum, integrum 
abrupte constricta. Capsula in pedicello purpureo scaberrimo, 
Papillis altis dense obtecto, 1.5 longo, inclinata vel subhorizon- 
talis, ovata, gibbosa, sicca sub ore leniter constricta, 1.7™™ longa, 
