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bascaEiver, Fort Assiniboine, N.W.T. ; in limestone springs at Hudson 

 Hope, Peace River, lat. 56° ; on the tufa mounds and in springs at 

 Banff, Rocky Mountains ; on stones in a brook at Spence's Bridge, 

 B.C. ; and at Comox Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Saskatchewan. 

 (Bourgeau.) Mooyie River, B.C. {Lyall.) In the vicinity of London, 

 Ont. {J. Dearness.) 



Tar. aciculinum, C. M. & Kindb. (n. var.) 



Costa excurrent to a rigid point. On wet rocks in Eagle Pass west 

 of Revelstoke, B.C., May 23rd, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(861.) H. chloropterum, C. M. & Kindb. (n.sp.) 



H. {BrachyUiedum) Novse-Anglias, Canadian Musci, No. 440. 



Tufts laxly cohering, with few rhizoids, whitish or bright green, not 

 shining. Stem more or less densely pinnate, rigid. Stem-leaves small, 

 patent also in a dry state, loosely and long-decurrent, auricledj 

 papillose at back, distinctly but faintly plicate, concave, broad-ovate, 

 suddenly narrowed to a short, in a dry state, twisted acumen ; borders 

 broadly recurved below, sometimes to the middle, denticulate all around 

 from the apex to the auricles ; areolation lax, more or less chlorophyl- 

 lose ; alar cells larger, subquadrate, numerous, the other oval-oblong, 

 only the uppermost narrow ; costa distinct, reaching above the middle ; 

 branch-leaves more loosely disposed, sometimes ovate-oblong and narrow- 

 areolate. Capsule small, suboblong, straight or curved ; lid elongate- 

 conic, oblique-apiculate or rostellate ; pedicel 1-1.5 cm. long, very 

 rough, purple. Inner perichetial leaves narrower, longer filiform- 

 pointed, nerveless. Monoecious. 



This species resembles Hypnum Novce-Anglice in habit, but differs 

 considerably in the distinctly papillose, looser and patent, wider- 

 areolate leaves and the monoecious inflorescence. In Hypnum Novce- 

 Anglioe, the branches are julaceous and the leaves nearly appressed in 

 a dry state, the branchlets shorter and less evolute. Both have a wide 

 leaf-areolation, resembling the allied Hypnum fiUdnum and Hypnum 

 commutatum, also the genus Amblystegium. 



On rocks. New Harbor, Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) On 

 the ground in shade, Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., and Blmwood, King's 

 Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) 



(862.) H. Novae-Angliae, Sulliv. & Lesq. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses 

 of N. America, 844. 



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



