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Yar. lanatum, Bruch & Schimp. 



Common on earth at Ottawa, Belleville and Owen Sound, Ont. ; 

 Cove Head, Prince Edward Island ; on rocks at Morley, Bocky Moun- 

 tains ; and at Eevelstoke and Deer Park on the Columbia Eiver, B.C. 

 (Macoun.) On sandy knolls at London, Ont. (J. Dearness.) 



(497.) B. csespiticium, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 1ST. 

 America. 235 ; Canadian Musci, No. 1*78. 



Chance Cove, Newfoundland ; Fox Harbor and Vesuvius Pickle, 

 Labrador. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) On dry ground, Bass Eiver, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) On earth, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) Halifax 

 and Pictou counties, N.S. (McKay.) Eiver du Loup (en bas,) Que. 

 (St. Cyr.) Common on earth in open places in woods and in pas- 

 tures across the continent. Brackley Point and Cove Head, Prince 

 Edward Island ; at Ste. Anne des Monts, Gasp Co., Que. ; abundant 

 at Ottawa and Belleville, Ont. ; amongst rocks at Lake Nepigon ; in 

 pastures, where water has stood, at Morley and Banff, Eocky Mountains ; 

 in Eoger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; also at Eevelstoke, Deer Park, 

 Cche Creek, Spence's Bridge and Lytton, B.C. ; north of Edmonton, 

 Athabasca. (Macoun.) On logs at Lobourough Lake, near Kingston, 

 Ont. (Prof. Fowler.) Little Whale Eiver, Hudson Bay. (G. 

 Barnston.) Clearwater Eiver, N.W.T., lat. 57. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 Jakobshavn, Greenland. (B. Brown.) Big Duck Island, Baffins' 

 Bay. (J. Sadler.) 



(498.) B. synoico-caespiticium, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 513. 



Tufts dense, about 1 cm. high, radiculose only at the base, green 

 above, brown-decolorate below. Leaves erect, not decurrent, subovate, 

 acuminate, not margined, recurved at the borders, slightly denticulate 

 above ; costa long-excurrent, very rigid, thick and often denticulate, 

 light-brown. Capsule_] turgid, oval, very short-necked, not, or slightly, 

 constricted below the mouth, pendent ; peristome perfect ; lid low and 

 umbonate ; spores about 0.015 mm. ; pedicel geniculate below the 

 middle, arcuate at the apex, about 5 cm. long, thick and red. Synoecious. 



This species is very different from 1 the allied Bryum ccespiticium in 

 the synoecious inflorescence, the larger spores and the long, geniculate 

 pedicel of the capsule. 



On earth amongst gravel in the old channels of the Illecillewaet Eiver 

 below the Canon at Eevelstoke, B.C., May 27th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



