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DiCRANUM SCOPARIUM, (L.), Hedw. var, SCOPARIFORME 



Kindb, n. var. 

 Intermediate between D. scoparmin and D. fiiscescens, 

 Dicecious. Leaves greenish-yellow, flexuous, lanceolate, subu- 

 late with a short and flat subula ; margins nearly flat or slightly 

 incurved, densely and sharply serrate to one-third; cell-walls 



not interrupted by pores; upper cells oblong-oval, lower not 



much narrower, inner basal light brown; costa thick, percurrent 

 with two serrate ridges at the back in the upper part. Capsule 

 curved, not striate ; pedical red, short. 



Described from specimens gathered at bottom of canon be- 

 low the bridge over Elk River, Rocky Mountains^ by Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, 1883. Since found to be quite common in Canada east 

 of the Great Lakes. 



DiCRANUM LEIONEURON, Kindberg, n. sp. 



Stem tall, sparingly radiculose. Leaves pale-yellow, glossy, 

 sub-erect subplane, ovate-lanceolate, narrowly short- subulate, 

 subentire or with few teeth at apex ; cells not porose, narrow ex- 

 cept the basilar; alar cells brown ; the median basal cells hya- 

 line; costa smooth, very narrow. Barren. 



In damp woods on McNab's Island near Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia, June 19, 1883. John Macoun, collector. 



DiCRANUM STENODICTYON, Kindberg, n. sp. 



Allied to Dicranian scopariiim. Dicecious. Tufts very dense, 

 blackish-brown, only the top leaves straw-yellow; 1-3 cm. high. 

 Leaves flexuous, not undulate or crispate, short ovate-lanceolate, 

 short-acuminate and blunt; margins flat jtbove the middle, 

 densely serrate above, more or less denticulate below ; cell-walls 

 not porose; upper cells oblong, lower subhnear ; alar hyaline, 

 faintly brown ; costa narrow, not percurrent, simply dentate at 

 back. Barren. 



The color of the plant resembles Hypninn sarinejitostnn. In 

 damp woods, Nova Scotia, Anticosti Island, and in the neighbor- 

 hood of Ottawa, Ont. Collected first in June, 1883, by John 



Macoun. 



BaRBULa megalocarpa, Kindberg, m sp. 



Differs from B. riiralis in the capsule being very much longer, 

 and cyhndrical, at least twice the length of the conic operculum, 

 the peristome shorter than the tubulose base, the middle leaves 

 more distant, the upper not emarginate or rounded at the apex, 

 rather acute; the hair point Is red at the base. 



