j\'ew Plants of the Orders Musci and Hepaticce. 21i> 



sensible that our Canadian plant is really distinct. The 

 leaves are much longer in proportion to their breadth, and 

 their margins so much more decidedly serrato-ciliate, that 

 this character is visible even to the naked eye. The fruit- 

 stalk is almost invariably solitary ; whereas in B. affinr, 

 there are usually five. The capsule is larger and more ob- 

 long. Both species are remarkable for their tomentose 

 stems. 



TAB. XXIII. Fig. 1. Plant nat. size. 2. Leaf magn. 3. 

 Portion of do. 4. Capsule with the operculum. 5. Part 

 of the outer peristome. G. Part of the inner do. All except 

 fig. 1. more or less magnified. 



Hypnum. 

 3. Hypnum Haldanianum ; caule elongato, repente, vage 

 ramoso, ramis subpinnatis ; foliis imbricatis, lutescentibus, 

 ovato-lanceolatis, integerrimis, enervibus vel obscure basi 

 binervibus ; theca cylindrica, arcuata, erecto-cernua, oper- 

 culo conico, oblique rostrato, arete adhaerenti. TAB. 

 XXIII. 

 Hab. In Canada, apud Moose Factory lectum, benevolo 



communicavit D. Haldane. 

 Stems creeping, tomentose on the under side, here and there 

 with little tufts of radical fibres, 2-9 inches in length, 

 irregularly divided, the branches unequally pinnate with 

 ramuli of half an inch, or one inch long. Leaves : Can- 

 line ones imbricated, bright yellowish green, shining, 

 nearly erect, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, somewhat con- 

 cave, nerveless, or with two short extremely faint nerves at 

 the base : Perichatal ones much attenuated, diverging or 

 somewhat spreading at their upper portion. Fruit-stalk 

 an inch or an inch and a half in length, red, slender, 

 smooth. Capsule long, cylindrical, arched, erecto-cernu- 

 ous, pale buffish red. Lid conical, with a very sharp 

 acute beak as long as the conical portion, of the same 



