MACouN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 5*7 



On earth on rocks along the railway a mile east of Agassiz, B.C., 

 May 8th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(214.) B. horrid ifolia, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Densely tufted. Plants about 3 cm. high, green above, rusty-red 

 i)elow, more or less branching. Leaves dry irregularly crispate, when 

 moistened falcate, spreading at all sides, very long and narrow, ovate- 

 lanceolate, carinate above, loosely disposed and long-decurrent, nearly 

 smooth ; borders reflexed at the ovate base ; basal cells pellucid, short- 

 rectangular, the inner lai-ger ; upper cells small and obscure ; costa 

 red-brown, broader below, narrower above, vanishing in the apex. 

 Barren. 



This species is allied to Barbula cylindrica (Tayl.) Lindb., but differs 

 principally in the decurrent leaves and the attenuate costa. 



On damp rocks, near the whirlpool, west of the Columbia Eiver, at 

 Eevelstoke, B.C., May 9th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(215.) B. convoiuta, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. Ame- 

 rica, 127 ; Canadian Musci, No. 76. 



TorUda convolvia, Drumm. Muse Bor.-Am., No. 138. 



Sandy soil in the country extending from Canada to the Eocky 

 Mountains. (Drummond.) On pasture fields and by roadsides at 

 Ottawa, Carlton Place, Belleville, Niagara Falls and Owen Sound, 

 Ont. ; on earth at Victoria and Comox, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) 

 On earth, very common at London, Ont. {J. Dearness.) 



(216.) B. chrysopoda, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Differs from Barbula convoluta in the short nearly indistinct stem, 

 the leaves sub-lingulate, very obtuse, the perichetial leaves rounded or 

 truncate at the apex, long exserted, the lid spirally contorted. 



On earth in the burnt woods around Eevelstoke ; especially along 

 old roads. May 17th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(f.) SYNTRICHIA, C. Muell. 



(217.) B. subulata, Beauv. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. Ame- 

 rica, 130. 



Tortula subulata, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 144. 



In the country from Canada to the Eocky Mountains ; upon the 

 ground. (Drummond.) On earth in the country north of Edmonton, 

 N.W.T, ; on earth along the Fraser Eiver, below Lytton, B.C. ; and 

 ■on rocks. Point Wilkins, Lake Winnipegoosis, Man. (Macoun.) 



