MACOUN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 67 



Thompson rivers at Spence's Bridge, B.C., alt. 3,500 feet, May 28th, 

 1889. (Macoun.} 



(255.) C. contorta, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 K America, 139. 



On rocks in the vicinity of McLeod's Lake, northern British 

 Columbia, June 25th, 1875. (Macoun.) 



(256.) C. funalis, (Schwregr.) Schimp. ; Braithw. British Moss- 

 Flora, Vol. II. 13. 



G. spirills, Hook. & Taylor ; Flora of Greenland, 347. 



Dioacious. Densely csespitose, readily falling asunder, grey-green 

 or yellowish green above, reddish brown or fuscous below. Stems 1-2 

 in. high, slender, erect, sub-dichotomous, free from radicles. Leaves 

 when dry erect and spirally incumbent, when moist erecto-patent, 

 small, lanceolate, upper with hyaline points, or extended into a 

 smooth hair, the margin a little recurved, nerve narrow, vanishing at 

 the apex ; cells at base narrowly rectangular, quadrate and hyaline at 

 margin, above quadrate and sinuose, upper in two strata, minute, 

 quadrate. Perichetial leaves broader at base, concave, piliferous ; pedicel 

 shorter than the perichetial leaves, curved , pale yellow ; calyptra conico 

 mitriform, 5-lobed, capsule small, ovate, pale reddish brown, 8-striate ; 

 annulus broad of 3-4 rows of cells, lid from a convex base ; short- 

 pointed ; teeth rufous purple, lacunose or torn at apex. Male plants 

 taller and more slender ; inflorescence terminal, inner bracts oblong- 

 acute. 



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



(257.) C. prolifera, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts soft, coherent and very radiculose, dry blackish below, 

 proliferous with long green shoots. Stem slender, naked below, 3-4 

 cm. long. Leaves dry incurved or crisped, the upper often falcate 

 when moist, narrow, from the oblong appressed subvaginant base 

 attenuate to a shorter acute acumen, muticous or rarely furnished 

 with an apical hair point-like cell, margins recurved at least at 

 one side ; lower basal cells narrow-rectangular, the other and the 

 upper subquadrate, all thin-walled, faintly yellowish and pellucid ; 

 costa yellow-brown, percurrent. 



Differs from the allied G-rimmia contorta (Wahlenb.) principally in 

 the shorter, muticous, at the margin recurved, leaves, the upper more 



