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(176.) D. obtusifolius, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 114. 



Didymodon oblongifolium, (n. sp.) Drumin. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 114. 

 D. latifolium, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 115. 



Mountain-rocks ; often on the under side of projecting ledges and 

 moist marshy places, Eocky Mountains. (^Drummond.) 



(177.) D. subtorquescens, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



D. latifolius, Canadian Musci, No. 69, in part 



Nearly allied to B. atrovirens, Smith, (i>. nervosm, Bruch & Schimp. 

 and Lesq. & James), but the tufts are compact, the stem higher, (about 



1 cm.), the leaves green, not dingy, very short, suboval or subspathu- 

 late, smaller, less opaque, the costa neither excurrent nor broader 

 above, the capsule cylindric. 



The description of 2). nervosm by Lesq. & James corresponds nearly 

 to our species, but not to the true European. 



On earth on exposed cliffs along the Gaspe coast above the Madeline 

 Eiver, 10th August, 1882. {Macoun.) 



(178.) D. cernuuSy Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 N. America, 114 ; Canadian Musci, No. 71. 



On earth, South West Point, Anticosti ; on earth at Campbellton, 

 N.B. ; on rocks and cliffs along the Gaspd coast ; on earth along the 

 Pembina Eivei', northwest of Edmonton, N.W.T, ; Cache Creek Moun- 

 tain, and on wet rocks in a ravine at Kamloops, B.C. (^Macoun.) 

 G-reenland. {Fl. Gr.) 



Var. xanthopus, Kindb. (n. var.) 



Leaves less chlorophyllose, costa virescent. Capsule larger ; teeth 

 more united ; pedicel yellow. 



On black earth at the crossing of Boggy Creek on the " Old Trail " 

 leading to Touchwood Hills, Manitoba, 12th August, 1872. (Macoun.) 



(179.) D. camptothecius, Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Habit of Desmatodon cemuus. Plants densely csespitose. Leaves 

 long, narrow-lingulate, subobtuse, entire or obscurely crenulate, faintly 

 papillose, marginate and at the base revolute, mucronate by the excur- 

 rent greenish costa. Capsule cylindric, arcuate : teeth short, cut in 



2 or 4 partly coherent segments ; annulus indistinct ; lid with a short 



