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(723.) B. albicans, Bruch & Schimp., Bryol. Earop. 



Hypnum (Brachythecium) cUbicans, Neck. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 



America, 337 ; Canadian Musci, No. 285, in part ; Drumm. Muse. 



Bor.-Am., No. 173. 

 Hypnum salebromm, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 175, in part 



Eocky Mountains. (Bourgeau.) Heart's Delight, Newfoundland. 

 (Bev. A. IVaghome.) Bass Eiver, X.B. (Fowler's Cat.) On earth at 

 Salt Lake, Anticosti ; on earth in woods, Brackley Point, Prince 

 Edward Island ; on rotten logs in a swamp at Brighton, Ont. ; on 

 rotten logs at Owen Sound, Ont. ; on rotten logs, Roger's Pass, Selkirk 

 Mountains ; on earth at Yale and Quesnel, B.C. ; on sand at Comox 

 Bar, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) On dry barren ground amongst 

 grass (Xo. 173) ; in mai-shy ground (No. 175). (Drummond.) St. 

 Paul Island, Behring Sea. (Palmer.) Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(724.) B. harpidioides, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts compact, soft, radiculose below, whitish or bright green, not 

 shining. Stems intricate, irregularly bi'anching or pinnate. Leaves 

 patent, somewhat loosely disposed, decurrent, more or less arcuate 

 (principally the upper), not auricled, plicate, nearly flat, ovate and 

 subulate-acuminate ; bordei-s faintly denticulate and recurved often all 

 around ; cells distinctly chlorophyllose, the alar large, subquadrate, 

 the other lanceolate. Dioecious. Capsules not found. 



This species resembles some forms of Brachythecium albicans, but is 

 very peculiar in the arcuate leaves as in the section Harpidium of the 

 genus Hypnum. 



On old logs in woods along the Columbia River above Revelstoke, 

 May 6th, 1890. (Macoun.) On logs in woods at Canaan Forks, 

 Queen's Co., N.B., 1889. (J. Moser.) 



(725.) B. cirrhosum, (Schwaegr) Schimp. Syn. ed. IL, 866. 



Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 

 (726.) B. trachypodium, (Brid.) Bryol. Europ. VL 



Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(727.) B. pseudo-albicans, Kindb., Bull. Toi-r. Bot. Club, XVIL, 



278. 



Hypnum {Brachythecium) albicans, Neck. var. (?) or n. sp. ; Canadian 

 Musci, No. 285, in part. 



Differs from the true B. albicans (Neck.), in having the leaves 

 looser, sub-distichous, shorter-acuminate, faintly striate, denticulate all 



