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c. describes the paraphyllia as numerous), leaf-like, triangular- 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate : dioicous ; perichaetial leaves ovate with 

 sheathing bases, abruptly narrowed to a long slender squarrose 

 acumination, strongly dentate-serrate, ecostate. Sp&rophyte 2-3 

 cm. high ; seta red-brown, stout, twisted to the right, very rough 

 with large blunt papillae ; capsule oblong-ovoid, red-brown, slightly 

 unsymmetric, horizontal, slightly contracted under the mouth when 

 dry; urn about 2 mm. long, 1.5-2: 1 ; operculum long-rostrate, 

 nearly as long as urn ; annulus large, easily detachable ; segments 

 nearly as long as the teeth; cilia 2 or 3, nodose; spores 10-14/^, 

 maturing in late autumn or early winter. 



Type locality, Ireland. 

 On the ground and root^ 



M 



tains in the northern United States and Canada, Idaho, Washing- 

 ton, Oregon, California, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 

 Apparently common within this range. Newfoundland {Fide 

 Cardot). 



Illustrations. Turner, 1. c. ; Br. & Sch. 1. c. ; Husnot, 

 Muse. Gall. pi. 98. 



Exsiccati. Macoun, Can. Muse. 297 ; Ren. & Card. Muse. 

 Am. Sept. Exsic. 119. 



Our American plant is as a rule considerably stouter than the 

 European and more regularly pinnate varying towards E. Oreganutn 

 which is most certainly a derivative of it. One of the best charac- 

 terized of these forms is 



5b. EURHYNCHIUM PRAELOXGUM CaLIFORNICUM var. IIOV. 



Gametopkyte with the habit of a Thuidium; stems 15-20 cm. 

 long, closely and regularly pinnate, seldom stoloniferous, more 

 robust throughout ; leaves of the maximum size. 



Type from California, Bolander no. 46. 1876. In the her- 

 barium of Columbia University. 



6. Eurhynchium Brittoxiae sp. nov. 



GamctopJiytc in wide intricate mats, dark green ; stems creep- 

 ing, radiculose, 5-10 cm. long, sparingly divided ; branching 

 closely and regularly pinnate ; branches 5-10 mm. long, terete- 

 foliate ; branch leaves open-erect, 0.7-0.9x0.3-0.4 mm., gradually 

 long-acuminate, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, serrate to the base, 

 slightly or not at all decurrent ; leaf-cells oblong-linear, 5:1, alar 



