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Var. longifolia, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Yol. XVII., 89. 



Intermediate between B. subulata and B. angustata. Leaves long- 

 and narrow, acuminate and acute, distinctly denticulate above, 

 papillose, yellow, bordered ; costa long-excurrent, but shorter in the 

 perichetial leaves. 



On earth, Cypress Hills, Alberta ; on earth at Cache Creek, Yale 

 and Lytton, B.C. ; vicinity of Victoria, Vancouver Island, May 7th, 

 1875. (Macoun.) 



(218.) B. mucronifolia, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses 

 of N. America, 131 ; Canadian Musci, No. 80. 



On rocks at Truro, N.S. (Fowler's Cat.) On calcareous earth, 

 Jupiter Kiver, Anticosti ; crevices of limestone rocks at Belleville, 

 Ont. (Macoun.) Sandy banks of the St. Lawrence at Fox Eiver, 

 Gasp6 Co., Que. (J. A. Allen.) Jakobshavn, Greenland. (Fl Gr.) 



(219.) B. angustata, Wils. ; Braithw. British Moss-Flora, 221 - r 

 Canadian Musci, No. 413. 



B. subulate, Beauv. var. angustdta, Schimp. ; Lesq.'&jjJames, Mosses of N, 

 America, 131. 



Resembling B. subulata, but more slender. Leaves narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, nearly smooth, margin incrassate, hyaline. Capsule 

 paler, suberect, narrowly cylindric. On sandy soil near London, 

 Ont. (J. Dearness.) On sand at the extreme end of Pelee Point, 

 Lake Erie; on rocks at Morley, Eocky Mountains ; on earth at Lytton r 

 Spence's Bridge and Agassiz, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(220.) B. rural is, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America 

 132 ; Canadian Musci, No. 82. 



Tortvla ruralis, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. , No. 143. 



Various parts of the country ; scarcely common. (Drummond.) On- 

 limestone rocks at Ottawa, Belleville, Owen Sound and Niagara Falls ; 

 also at Flat Eock Portage, Lake Nepigon ; on rocks near Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island ; dry rocks, Kananaskis Station, Eocky Mountains. 

 (Macoun.) Smith's Sound, between lat. 78 82. (Dr. Hayes.} 

 Shannon Island, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(221.) B. alpina, Bruch & Schimp. 

 On rocks, at Quesnel, B.C., May 29th. 1875. (Macoun.) 



