MACOUN. 



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(205.) B. spadicea, Mitt. ; Braithw. British Moss-Flora, 266. 

 B. rigidula, Canadian Musci, No. 412. 



Pilfering from B. rigidula in the leaves being more curved, and 

 broader pointed, the costa distinct to the apex ; from B. fallax in the 

 scarcely twisted peristome. On earth by a brook at Lytton; B.C., 

 April 17th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(206.) B. unguiculata, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 120 ; Canadian Musci, No. 73. 



Torlula unguiculata, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 140. 



In Upper Canada ; and about Carlton House, &c. (Drummond.) 

 Common on earth at Bass River, Kent Co., N.B. (Fowlefs Gat.) 

 Pictou, N.S. (McKay.) Tay, York Co. and Canaan Forks, Queen's 

 Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) Yery common on the borders of old roads in 

 and around Ottawa, Belleville and Owen Sound, Ont. ; on earth along 

 old roads at Revelstoke on the Columbia River, and at Cache Creek, 

 B.C. (Macoun.) Very common in sandy soil at London, Ont 

 (J. Dearness.) 



(207.) B. brachyphylla, Sulliv. Var. angustifolia, Kindb 

 (n. var.) 



On calcareous rocks where water dripsjin spring, Deer Park, Lower. 

 Arrow Lake, Columbia River, B.C., June 8th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(208.) B. (Didymodon ?) oenea, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Dioecious. Tufts loose, purple, without rhizoids. Stems about 1 

 cm. high, branches not divided. Leaves nearly straight, loosely 

 appressed when dry, patent when moist, short ovate-lanceolate 

 attenuate, acute, papillose ; margins faintly revolute at the base, also 

 above at least on one side ; costa red, subpercurrent ; basal cells 

 rectangular pellucid, the other subquadrate, dusky. Barren. 



Nearly allied to the European (also occurring in Greenland) 

 Barbula (Didymodon) rufa, Lor., which has the branches divided and 

 the leaves brown-red with a different areolation. 



On earth subject to inundation one and a half miles above Revelstoke, 

 along the Columbia River, B.C., May 12th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(209.) B. rubiginosa, Mitt. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. Ame- 

 rica, 126. 



North West Coast. (Douglas.) I believe Douglas' specimens to be 

 B. robustifolia, C. M. & Kindb. (Macoun.) 



