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("795.) T, Bigelowii, (Sulliv.) 



Hypnum Bigelowii, Sulliv. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 362 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 303. 



North-west Coast. (Menzies.) On wet rocks Goldstream, near 

 Yictoria, and along the Nanaimo Eiver, below the railway bridge, 

 Yancouver Island. (Macoun.) On wet rocks, Alert Bay, Yancouver 

 Island. QDawson.) 



126. PLACIOTHECIUM, Schimp. 



(TQG.) P. Passaicense, Aust. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Y. 24. 



Hypnum latebricola, Canadian Musci, No. 304. 



H. Fassaicense, Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 363. 



On cedar trees in Dow's swamp near Ottawa ; abundant on old cedar 

 etumps in swamps five miles west of Belleville, Ont. ; on dead wood in 

 swamps at Fort McLeod, lat. 65°, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(YBT.) P. latebricolai Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum latebricola, Lindb. Ms. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 363. 

 On stumps in McKay's woods, near the lake, Ottawa, Ont. (Macoun.) 

 (TBS.) P. pseudo-latebricola, Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts dense and radiculose, glossy green. Stem irregularly branch- 

 ing ; branches often curved, perfectly complanate, branchlets longer 

 with smaller and narrower leaves. Stem-leaves small, distichous, not 

 decurrent, shortly ovate-lanceolate suddenly tapering to a somewhat 

 long, filiform and straight point, entire ; cells narrow, the alar small, 

 few and subquadrate, often wanting ; costa obsolete. Perichetial 

 leaves sinuolate above. Capsule obovate-oblong, oblique and faintly 

 cui'ved, often pendent, teeth pale; inner membrane clavate ; cilia long, 

 eubappendiculate ; lid conical ; pedicel about 12 mm. long. Dioecious. 

 Allied to P. Fassaicense. 



On rotten wood along the Columbia Eiver, on both sides of the river 

 at Eevelstoke, May 3rd and 12th, 1890. (^Macoun.) 



(t99.) P. bifariellum, Kindb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XYII. 279. 



P. Americanum. Kindb. enum. bryin. exotic. 



Plants small, sparingly radiculose, loosely csespitose, dark or blackish 

 green, not glossy. Stems rigid, pinnate. Leaves loose, small, spread- 

 ing, smooth and not striate ; stem-leaves at the base broadly ovate- 



