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dark-purplish, either long-excurrent, with the point thick and very- 

 rigid, or vanishing below the apex. Dioecious. 



It agrees also with Bryum Donianum, G-rev., in the clavate branches 

 and the smaller spores, about 0.01 mm., but the leaf-boi'ders are not 

 incrassate, the capsule is not so large. On earth in McKay's bush, near 

 Ottawa, Ont., (1888) ; on earth at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C. (1889) ; 

 on rocks at Esquimalt, Victoria and Nanaimo, Vancouver Island ; also 

 on Mount Erskine, Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island, Grulf of G-eorgia 

 (1887). (Macoun.) 



Var. brevicuspidatum, Kindb. (n. var.) Canadian Musci, No. 



180. 



Leaves short-pointed. 



Bases of stumps near Victoria (18*75) and at Cedar Hill (1887), Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.) 



(505.) B. elegans, Esenb. 



On earth along the Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, G-aspe Co., Que., 

 August, 1882. (^Macoun.) 



(506.) B. cyclophyllum, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, 

 Mosses of N. America, 237 ; Canadian Musci, No. 538. 



On stones wet with spray, Niagara Falls. (Clinton.) On stones at 

 Spray Falls, Banff, Kocky Mountains. (Macoun.) Smith's Sound, be- 

 tween lat. 78«'— 82°. (Dr. Hayes.) Godhavn, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(507.) B. obtusifolium, Lindb. ; Fl. Greenland, 370. 

 Godhavn, and other localities in Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(508.) B. erythrophyllum, Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Closely allied to the arctic Bryum ohtusifolium, Lindb. Barren stems 

 laxly cohering, blood-red, about 1 cm. high. Leaves small, reddish, 

 loosely disposed, flaccid, not decurrent, the lower ovate, subobtuse, the 

 upper leaves sometimes more attenuate, furnished with a rigid point 

 to the excurrent costa, entire, subimmarginate, not reflexed at the 

 margins ; areolations lax, nearly uniform ; costa red, percurrent or 

 slightly excurrent in a short recurved point. 



In boggy places by a brook at Truro, KS., June 12th, 1883 ; on wet 

 earth in the Illecillewaet Canon, near Eevelstoke, B.C., May 18th, 

 1890. (Macoun.) 



