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Var. lonsifoiia, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. XVU., 89. 



Intermediate between B. subulata and B. angustata. Leaves long^ 

 and narrow, acuminate and acute, distinctly denticulate above, 

 papillose, yellow, bordered ; eosta long-excuiTent, but shorter in the 

 perichetial leaves. 



On earth. Cypress Hills, Alberta ; on earth at Ciiche Creek, Yale 

 and Lytton, B.C. ; vicinity of Victoria, Vancouver Island, May 7th, 

 1875. (Macoun.') 



(218.) B. mucronifolia, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. &. James, Mosses 

 of N. America, 131 ; Canadian Musci, No. 80. 



On rocks at Truro, N.S. (^Fowler's Cat.) On calcareous earth, 

 Jupiter River, Anticosti ; crevices of limestone rocks at Belleville, 

 Ont. (Macoun.) Sandy banks of the St. Lawrence at Fox River, 

 Gasp^ Co., Que. (J. A. Allen.) Jakobshavn, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(219.) B. angustata, Wils. ; Braithw. British Moss-Flora, 221 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 413. 



B. subulata, Beauv. var. angusUita, Scbirap. ; Lie8q.~(S:;JameS) Mosses of N. 

 America, 131. 



Resembling B. subulata, but more slender. Leaves narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, nearly smooth, margin incrassate, hyaline. Capsule 

 paler, suberect, narrowly cylindric. On sandy soil near London, 

 Ont. (J. Deamess,) On sand at the extreme end of Pelee Point, 

 Ijake Erie; on rocks at Morley, Rocky Mountains ; on earth at Lytton,. 

 Spence's Bridge and Agassiz, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(220.) B. ruralis, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America 

 132 ; Canadian Musci, No. 82. 



Tortvla ruralis, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 143. 



Various parts of the country ; scarcely common. (Drummond.) On 

 limestone rocks at Ottawa, Belleville, Owen Sound and Niagara Falls ; 

 also at Flat Rock Portage, Lake Nepigon ; on rocks near Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island ; dry rocks, Kananaskis Station, Rocky Mountains. 

 (Macoun.) Smith's Sound, between lat. 78°— 82°. (Dr. Hayes.} 

 Shannon Island, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(221.) B. alpina, Bruch & Schimp. 

 On rocks, at Quesnel, B.C., May 29th. 1875. (Macoun.) 



