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(778.) E. Stokesii, (Turn.) Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum Siokesii, Turn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 354 ; 



Canadian Musci, No. 297. 

 Hypnum prxlongum, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 353. 

 H. Mans, Canadian Musci, No. 442 in part. 



British Columbia, near the 49th parallel. (Lyall) Vancouver 

 Island. {Lyall, Wood.) On earth in woods at Eevelstoke ; abun- 

 dant on wet rocks and earth at Hastings, Burrard Inlet and 

 Agassiz, B.C. ; on rocks and old logs at Victoria, Esquimault, Nanaimo 

 and Comox, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) On rocks, Alert Bay, Van- 

 couver Island. (Dawson.) 



(779.) E. Oreganum, (Sulliv.) Lesq. & James. 



Hypnum Oreganum, Sulliv. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 355 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 298. 



British Columbia, near the 49th parallel. {Lyall.) Vancouver 

 Island. (Wood.) Very abundant on logs and the bases of trees around 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Melaspina Inlet, Gulf of 

 Georgia, B.C. (Dawson.) 



(780.) E. (Brachythecium?) semiasperum, C. M. & Kindb. 

 (n. sp.) ; Canadian Musci, No. 507. 



Plant loosely tufted, green. Secondary stems sparingly radiculose, 

 branching at one side ; branches generally simple, acute, 1 cm. long 

 or shorter. Leaves subpatent, from a broad-cordate base, fine acumi- 

 nate, decurrent, nearly entire ; alar cells numerous, reaching to the 

 costa ; the other cells narrower, the lower dilated ; costa vanishing 

 above the middle. Capsule small, suboval, erect or inclined ; teeth 

 papillose above ; segments shorter than the high basilar membrane ; 

 lid narrow, short-rostellate ; pedicel rough at least to the middle, 

 smooth below, 0.6 cm. long. Perichetial leaves suboblong, short- 

 acuminate, erect, entire and nerveless. Monoecious. 



The species is well-distinct from all our Eurhynchia and rather allied 

 to Brachythecium plumosum. 



On rocks in a small mountain brook at Deer Park, Lower Arrow 

 Lake, Columbia Eiver, B.C., June 6th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(781.) E. crassinervoi (Tayl.) Schimp. var. laxorete, Kindb. 

 n. var. (n. sp. ?) 



Differs in the leaves being nearly entire or faintly denticulate above, 

 shorter-acuminate, and the cells larger. Only male flowers found. 

 The allied E. colpophyllum, (Sulliv) Lesq. & James, is described as 



