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costa red, subpercuri*ent ; perichetial leaves nari*ower, sub-acute and 

 narrow-areolate. Capsule inclined, obovate-oblong, short-necked, con- 

 stricted below the mouth when dry, purplish-brown ; peristome pale- 

 yellow ; inner membrane low ; cilia short, nodulose or appendiculate ; 

 spores small, about 0.016 mm. ; lid conical, short-apiculate ; pedicel 

 geniculate at the base. Dioecious. 



This species is nearly allied to B. miniatum but the stems are more 

 radiculose and very much less foliate, the leaves rarely purplish, and 

 their areolation wider. The capsule of neither species is larger than 

 in Bryum coespiticium, smaller than in Bryum Atwaterioe. The leaves in 

 Bryum percurrentinerve are larger and bright green. 



On the summit of Hermit Mountain close to the glacier on the west 

 side, Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B.C., August 5th, 1890. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) 



(503.) B. anoectangiaceum, C.^M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts compact, radiculose, small, scarcely 2 cm. high. Leaves small, 

 rose-colored, loosely disposed, not decurrent, spirally contorted in a 

 dry state, ovate-acute, pellucid, narrow-mai'ginate, entire, faintly 

 revolute, laxly areolate ; costa thick, reddish, percurrent or shoi-t- 

 excurrent. Probably monoecious, but the male flowers not well 

 developed. 



This peculiar species is perhaps nearly allied to Bryum erythrophyllum 

 On rocks by the torrent at Hector, Eocky Mountains, B.C., August 

 12th, 1890, (^Macoun.) 



(504.) B. capillare, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 235 ; Canadian Musci, No. 179. 



Pictou Co., N.S. {McKay.) On rich earth on rocks, Gilmour's 

 Park, Chelsea, Que. ; on roots of trees in woods at Belleville, and in 

 McKay's Woodp, Ottawa, Ont. ; on rocks, " Dry Cafton," discharge of 

 Devil's Lake, Rocky Mountains ; on rocks at Sicamous, Agassiz and 

 Hastings, B.C. ; Salt Spring Island, Gulf of Georgia, B.C. {Macoun.') 

 Near London, Ont. (J. Deamess.) Sitka. {Roth. Alask.) Gi*een- 

 land. (Fl. Gr.) 



* B. heteroneuron, C. M. & Kindb. (n. subsp.) 



B. Dontanum, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVIL, 273. 



B. obconicum, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVII,, 274; Canadian Musci, No. 181. 



B. proiinciale, Canadian Musci, No. 171. 



Differs in the leaves being finally purplish-colored, less contorted 

 when dry, distinctly seiTate above, finally red^margined, the costa 



