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(457.) B. purpurascens, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, 

 Mosses of N. America, 224. 



Melville Island. {Parry.') Eocky Mountains. (Bourgeau.) Rainy- 

 Lake, British America. (Hubbard.') Smith's Sound between lat. 

 Y8°— 82°. (Dr. Hayes.) Common in Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) Labra- 

 dor. (Gremann fide Kindberg.) 



(458.) B. subpurpurascens, Kindb. (n. sp.) ; Canadian Musci, 

 ^o. 593. 



Agreeing with B. purpurascens in the red tufts, the elongate shoots, 

 the costa scarcely or faintly excurrent, the capsule long-necked, con- 

 stricted below the mouth, teeth orange-colored, segments free, cilia 

 smooth, 8por.e8 small, lid large, mammillate, pedicel red ; differs in the 

 inflorescence being dioecious, all leaves red-margined, long-excurrent, 

 and principally in the curved subclavate capsule, resembling that of 

 Bryum meeseoides. 



On wet earth by the railway at Port Moody, Burrard Inlet, B.C., 

 April 23rd, 1889. (Macourt.) 



(459.) B. Brownii, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 N. America, 224. 



Melville Island. (Parry.) Rocky Mountains. (Bourgeau.) Franz 

 Josephs Fjord, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(460.) B. pendulum, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 225 ; Canadian Musci, No. 167. 



New Harbor, Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) On rotten 

 wood, Bass River, Kent Co. and Carleton, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) Cape 

 Prince of Wales and Digge's Island, Hudson Strait, (R. Bell.) 

 Crevices of rocks, Salt Lake, Anticosti ; also at Campbellton, N.B. ; on 

 earth at Ottawa, and along the shore of Lake Huron ; also at Swan 

 Lake House, Man, ; on rocks, Kananaskis Falls, Bow River Pass and 

 Banff, Rocky Mountains ; Stewart's Lake and Nechacco River, B.C. 

 (Macoun.) Clearwater River, N.W.T. ; and St. Paul Island, Behring 

 Sea. (J. M. Macoun.) Upernivik, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(461.) B. angustirete, Kindb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Yol. XVL 94. 



I)i9"er8 from B. pendulum in the leaves being narrow, ovate-lanceolate, 

 reflexed all around ; upper areolation very narrow, sublinear, basal 

 cells reddish ; costa red. Capsule sub-cylindric ; pedicel arcuate above ; 

 teeth paler ; spores small, scarcely 0.02 mm. Syncecious. 



On damp earth at the railway bridge over the Kananaskis, Rocky 



