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and plains. There are few if any speeies common to the 

 alpine heights of the Sierra and the dry summits of the Coast 

 and Mt. Diablo Ranges; nor can there well be, since the two 

 kinds of station represent climatological differences as great 

 as subsist between the summit of Mt. Washington and tlie 

 foothills of the Cumberland Ranefe, or even erreater. 



A New Californian Moss, 



By N. 0. KlNBBERG. 



CAivirxoTHECiuai ALSioiDES, Kiudberg, n. sp. Tufts large, 

 bright green, shining. Stem long, creeping only at the base, 

 regularly pinnate^ often arcuate; branchlets obtusish, curved 

 or sometimes straight when dry. Stem leaves broadly ovate- 

 lanceolate, attenuate to the short and sharp acumen, faintly 

 plicate iu the lower part, margins revolute at base, plane 

 below the middle, faintly denticulate toward the apex; cells 

 long, nearly linear, except the numerous quadrate alar ones; 

 costa thick, reaching to the more distinctly serrulate acumen; 

 leaves of the branches from oblong- to linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, more sharply serrulate; cells shorter, the upper sub- 

 oblong, all the others, except the alar, oblong-lanceolate; 

 perichpetial leaves abruptly narrowed to a long subuliform 

 denticulate and often deflexed acumen. Capsule subcylindric, 

 curved, spreading or deflexed; teeth orange-color; segments 

 yellow, lacunose in the middle; cilia two, nodose, not appen- 

 diculate, shorter than the segments; lid flat, apiculate; pedi- 

 cel rough throughout, about 16 cm. long. 



From the similar a Amesu^, Ken. & Card., this species 

 diflfers in the obtuse branch leaves, the shorter and acuminate 

 stem leaves, the longer pedicel of the capsule, and the shape 

 of the lid. This, in C. Awesiai (not found nor described by 

 the autiiors) is obtusely conical. The new species resembles 

 an Alsia in the peculiarly arcuate stems and branches. It 

 was discovered by Mr. Marshall A. Howe, growing on rocks, 

 at Mill Vallev, Marin Co,, California, 1892. 



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