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or decurrenl, serrulate at least above the middle ; areolation loose ; 

 upper cells narrowly rhomboidal. inner sublinear ; alar quadrate, 

 somewhat numerous, chlorophyllose ; costa stout, i-eaching to f. Peri- 

 gonial leaves ecostate. Dioecious. 



On elm logs in thick woods, Brighton, Northumberland Co., Ont., 

 October 6th, 1888. (Macom.) 



Var. setosum, Sulliv. & Lesq. 



In holes in maple trees many feet above the ground at Belleville, 

 Ont.. {Macoun.') 



(718.) B. salebrosum, Bruch & Schimp., Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum {BrachyOiedum) mlebromm, Hoffm. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 N. America, 336 ; Canadian Musci, No. 283 ; Drumm. Muse, Bor.- 

 Am., No. 175. 



Pictou Co., N.S. {McKay.) Norman's Cove and New Harbor, New- 

 foundland. {Bev. A. Waghome.) Bass River and Fredericton, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) On earth. Tobique Eiver and St. John, N.B. (Hay.) 

 On earth at Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) Baie St. 

 Paul, Charlevoix Co., Que. (*Si^ Cyr.) Moist ground, Ste. Anne des 

 Monts Eiver, Gasp^ Co., Que. ; on stones in woods at Ottawa; on logs 

 in woods at Belleville, Brighton, Wooler and Lake Superior, Out. ; on 

 logs, Green Lake, N.W.T. ; decayed trunks, Moose Mountain, Assini- 

 boia ; on logs along Peace River, lat. 56° ; on stones at Morley, Hector 

 and Banff, Rocky Mountains ; on logs at Agassiz, B.C. ; and on earth at 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Common in cedar swamps 

 at London, Ont. (J. Bearness.) Saskatchewan. (Bourgeau.) Pend 

 d'Oreille River, B.C. (^Lyall.) In marshy ground ; rare. (Drum- 

 mond.) Kotzebue Sound. {Roth. Alask.) Cape Vancouver, Alaska, 

 1891. (J. M. Macaun.) Greenland. (^Fl. Qr.) 



B. 



mammilligerum, Kindb. (n. subsp.) 



Monoecious. Tufts very dense and radiculose. Stem subpinnate. 

 Leaves very patent in a dry state, striate, long, narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, often filiform-pointed, borders not, or narrowly, recurved, 

 faintly serrate ; alar cells few ; costa ordinarily vanishing in the middle, 

 sometimes longer. Perichetial leaves long-aristate. Perigonial leaves 

 subuliform-pointed. Capsule suboval, curved ; segments narrowly 

 rimose,[not_open ; cilia nodose, not appendiculate ; annulus none ; lid 

 mammillate ; pedicel long, smooth. 



On old wet logs near a spring along the road leading south from 

 Sicamous, B.C., July 19th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



