MAcouN.] CATALOGUE OP CANADIAN PLANTS. 125 



(485.) B. atropurpureum, Wahl. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 232. 



On earth at Foster's Flats below Niagara Falls, Ont. (^Macoun.) 

 (486.) B. Blindii, Bruch & Schimp. ; Canadian Musci, No. 502. 



On damp earth in railway ditches a little east of Hector, Eocky 

 Mountains ; also on debris at the mouth of Six-Mile Creek, Selkirk 

 Mountains, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(487.) B. alpinum, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 233. ^ 



On wet earth at Port Moody, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 24th, 1889. 

 {Macoun.') 



(488.) B. Raui, Aust., in Coult. Bot. Gaz. II., 110 ; Canadian Musci, 



No. 480. 



B. Mitehlenbeckii, Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 233 (Belleville 

 specimen) ; Canadian Musci, No. 174. 



Boggy places, Truro, N.S. ; on rocks. Gull Lake, Addington Co. ; 

 and along the Moira at Belleville, Hastings Co., Ont. ; on rocks, Lake 

 Nepigon ; on rocks at Spray Falls, Banff, ^Eocky Mountains ; on wet 

 rocks, Eagle Pass, west of Eevelstoke, and at Agassiz, B.C. (^Macoun.) 



/489.) B. Muehlenbeckii, Bruch & Schimp ; Bryol. Europ. ; Fl. 

 Greenland, 369. 



Proven, Greenland. (Dr. Kane.) Topsail Harbor, Newfoundland 

 (Rev.. A. Waghorne.^ 



(490.) B. haematocarpum, C. M. &Kindb. (n. sp.); Canadian. 

 Musci, No. 555. 



Tufts very tomentose below the green innovations, about 5 cm. high. 

 Leaves loosely appressed, when dry slightly corrugate but not twisted, 

 crowded, not decurrent, subovate, acute, pellucid, narrow-marginate 

 and revolute at the entire borders all around, those of the innovations 

 less distinctly revolute and marginate to above the middle ; cells pale 

 yellow, the upper short-rhomboidal ; costa yellow, percurrent or in 

 the upper-most leaves slightly excurrent. Capsule large (as in Bryura 

 pallescens), suboblong-cylindric, blood-red, doubly longer than the pale 

 collum, pendent or patent, not appressed to the pedicel ; peristome 

 dark-yellow or orange below, pale above ; segments free and very 

 much shorter than the membrane ; cilia faintly appendiculate or 



