190 GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF CANADA. 



(713.) C. aureum, (Lag.) Schimp. 



On rotten logs at Cedar Hill, near Victoria, Vancouver Island, April 

 16th, 1887. (Mdcoun.) Also found near Victoria by Dr. Roell. 



119. BRACHYTHECIUM, Schimp. 



(714.) B. iaetum, (Brid.) 



Hypnum {Brachythecxum) Ixtum, Brid. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N 



America, 3.S5 ; Canadian Musci, No. 281. 

 Hypnum mlebrosum, Drumm. Muse Bor.-Am., Na 175, in part 



New Harbor, Newfoundland, and at Battle Harbor, Labrador. (^Rev. 

 A. Waghorne.) Bass Kiver, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) On stones in woods, 

 Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) Pictou Co., N.S. 

 (McKay.) Baie St. Paul, Charlevoix Co., Que. (St. Cyr.) Stones in 

 woods, Gunn River, Anticosti ; on stones in woods at Truro, N.S. ; old 

 logs, Gasp^ Co., Que. ; on stones in woods around Ottawa ; on stones 

 in woods at Belleville, Trenton, Wooler, Owen Sound and London, 

 Ont. (Macoun.) In woods, London, Ont. (J. Dearness.) In marshy 

 ground ; rare. (Drummond.) 



Obs. Brachythecium Uetum. only found in America, has also a 

 monoecious inflorescence (not " dioecious," Lesq. & James) ; the Euro- 

 pean Brachythecium luteolum, C. Mueller, is indeed dioecious. 



(715.) B. digastrum, CM. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts laxly cohering, olive-green, not shining. Stem rigid, sub- 

 pinnate or iri-egularly branching, radiculose below ; branches sub- 

 julaceous, obtusate. Stem-leaves when dry loosely appressed or 

 subimbricate, crowded, patent or subsecund when moist, decurrent, 

 not auricled. plicate, bi-ventrose, ovate and short-acuminate with the 

 acumen flexuous or when dry serpentino-corrugate, borders more or 

 less recurved but not reflexed, subentire or faintly denticulate above ; 

 lower basal cells wide and sub-rhombic, the alar rather quadrate- 

 rectangular and not very distinct, the upper conflate, small, very 

 chlorophyllose, the inner median sublinear, the other oblong-lanceolate ; 

 costa thick and subflexuous. long and vanishing near the acumen. 

 Branch-leaves ovate-oblong, more distinctly revolute at the borders, 

 denticulate at the acumen and narrower areolate. Female flowers 

 small, inner perichetial leaves filiform-acumiijate with the acumen 

 arcuate, long-costate and denticulate. Capsule asymmetric, sub- 

 cylindric, curved ; lid long-conic ; pedicel smooth, 1-2 cm. long. 

 Peristomial teeth conic-connivent when moist, dark red-brown below. 



