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(441.) W. micro-apiculata, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts small, dense and shining, bright green above, decolorate below, 

 about 2 cm. high. Leaves small ; narrow-areolate, densely imbricate 

 and appressed when dry; when moistened suberect, not decurrent, 

 ovate-lanceolate with a needle-shaped, often ineurved point, the lower 

 nearly entire, the comal a little longer, faintly and distantly sinuolate- 

 denticulate above, borders not revolute, costa not excurrent. 



This species is very peculiar, but only found in a barren state. It 

 resembles in habit a species of Bryum sect. Anomobryum also the 

 pleurocarpous genus Myurella. 



On damp rocks in Eagle Pass west of Revelstoke, B.C. May 23rd, 

 1890 ; also on wet rocks by the torrent at Hector, Rocky Mountains, 

 August 13th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(442.) W. Columbica, Kindb. (n. sp.) 



W. pulchdla, Canadian Musci, No. 164. 



Bryum carneum var. pulchellum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 261, in part. 



Differs from W. pulchella principally in the leaves being more 

 denticulate at least in the middle, the red costa and the detached 

 revoluble annulus of the capsule. 



The leaves are slightly reflexed, not glossy ; the capsule and the 

 leaves are small, the segments furnished with 2 cilia. 



Upon moist banks, not uncommon. (Drummond.) On earth in rail- 

 way cuttings in Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; both sides of the 

 river at Revelstoke, along a brook at Yale, and at Hastings, Burrard 

 Inlet, B.C. ; also near Lesser Slave Lake, Athabasca ; and along the 

 Telegraph Trail near the Nechacco River, B.C. (Macoun.*) 



(443.) W. pulchella, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 222. 



Cascade Mountains of British Columbia. (Mitten.^) On debris at 

 Donald, Columbia Yalley. (Maeoun.) 



(444.) W. Lescuriana, Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 221 ; Canadian Musci, No. 163, in part. 



On the ground, by roadsides, Bass River, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) 

 Wet places at Truro, N.S. (Maeoun, J. Moser.) 



(445.) W. carnea, Schimp.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 221 ; Canadian Musci, No. 163, in part. 



AVet springy places at Truro, N.S. ; also by roadsides in wet soil at 



