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(289.) R. fasciculare, Brid. ; Lesq.& James, Mosses of N.America, 

 150 ; Canadian Musci, No. 416. 



Trichostomum fasciculare, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 132. 



About Lake Superior ; and upon the rocks of Portage River, Rocky 

 Mountains. (Drummond.) On rocks in McDonald's Brook, Canaan 

 Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (/. Noser.} On rocks along Lake Superior 

 and on islands in Lake Nepigon ; on rocks, Roger's Pass, Selkirk 

 Mountains, at Revelstoke on the Columbia River, at Deer Park, Lower 

 Arrow Lake, and at Hastings, B.C. (Macoun.) On rocks, Queen 

 Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.) On rocks at New Harbor, Newfoundland. 

 (Rev. A. Waghorne.) Alaska. (Roth. Alask.') Jakobshavn, Green- 

 land. (Fl. Gr.} Miquelon Island. (Deldmare.'} 



(290.) R. varium, Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 150. 



E. helerostichum, var. obtusum, Kindb. ; Canadian Musci, No. 100. 

 Grimmia varia, Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. VIII., 21. 



On wet rocks, close to the water below the railway bridge over the 

 Nanaimo River, Vancouver Island, 27th April, 1887. (Macoun.) Bri- 

 tish Columbia. (Lyall, Douglas.) 



(291.) R. Oreganum, Ren. & Cardl., Bot. Gaz. XIII., 198. 

 E. varium, Canadian Musci, No. 104. 



Robust, in wide yellowish tufts. Stems prostrate and a little naked 

 below ; branches erect, 4-5 cm. long, simple or dichotomous, and with 

 very few short branchlets. Leaves appressed when dry, erect-spread- 

 ing when moist, generally more or less homomallus at the top of the 

 branches, ovate, or broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, 

 slightly plicate below, sometimes qbtuse, generally acute, muticous or 

 with a short hyaline apiculus or a more or less elongated, shortly 

 decurrent, slightly serrulate hair-point j borders revolute from the 

 base to near the apex ; costa percurrent, prominent on the back ; 

 cells thick-walled, linear, very sinuose, the lower mostly elongate, the 

 upper 2-4 times longer than broad, slightly papillose. External 

 perichetial leaves shortly piliferous, the inner muticous, of a more 

 delicate texture of thin-walled and scarcely sinuose cells. Pedicel 

 reddish, paler above, twisted to the left, 12-18 mm. long, 1 mm. broad ; 

 lid long-beaked ; annulus large ; teeth purple, very long, cleft to the 

 base into two filiform, often unequal, nodulose and faintly papillose 

 legs ; calyptra conical, long-acuminate, brownish at apex, laciniate- 

 lobulate at base. 



