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distant than the lower. It is also distinct from G. hamulosa, Lesq. (fide 

 C. Mueller.) 



(258.) G. torquata, Grov. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 140 ; Canadian Musci. No. 91 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 58. 



Near the " Height of Land " Eocky Mountains. (Drummond.) 

 Abundant on rocks at Hector and along the Kicking Horse Pass, 

 Eocky Mountains ; on dry rocks at Eevelstoke and Sproat, Columbia 

 Eiver ; also at Sicamous and Agassiz, B.C. ; on rocks at Vic- 

 toria and on Mount Benson, Vancouver Island ; on Mount Erskine, 

 Salt Spring Island, Gulf of Georgia, B.C. (Macoun ) Greenland. 

 (Fl. Gr.) 



(259.) C. tortifolia, Kindb. Enumer. Bryin. Doovens. (1888.) 

 G. streptophylla, Laubm. Schwed. u. Norw. 



Nearly allied to Grimmia torquata, but differing principally in the 

 shorter leaves and leaf-cells. 



On rocks in Eagle Pass, west of Eevelstoke, B.C., May 23rd, 1 890. 

 (Macoun.') 



(260.) C. Muehlenbeckii, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America. 140. 



On rocks Bow Eiver Pass near the " Gap," Eocky Mountains ; on 

 dry rocks, Blackwater Eiver, and at Lytton, B.C. (Macoun.) On 

 rocks, Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) 



(261.) C. elatior, Bruch ; Flora of Greenland, 347 ; Braithw. 

 British Moss-Flora, Vol. II., 23. 



Dioecious. Plants robust, laxly csespitose, 3-10 cm. high, black at 

 the base, fuscous-green above. Leaves very long, elongate-lanceolate 

 from a broader base, margins involute below, gradually attenuated 

 into a smoothish hair, basal cells narrow, upper short, more or 

 less papillose, all slightly sinuose. Capsule ovate 10-striate, when 

 dry, oblong, pale-brown ; calyptra lobate ; annul us of 3 rows of 

 cells ; lid rostellate or sub-acicular ; teeth purple ; pedicel short, pale, 

 arcuate. 



Godhavn, Greenland. (R. Brown.} On rocks, Mount Alymer, north 

 of Devil's Lake, Eocky Mountains, alt. 8,300 feet, August 6th, 1891. 

 (Macoun) 



