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dark-purplish, either long-excurrent, with the point thick and very 

 rigid, or vanishing below the apex. Dioecious. 



It agrees also with Bryum Donianum, Grev., in the clavate branches 

 and the smaller spores, about 0.01 mm., but the leaf-borders are not 

 incrassate, the capsule is not so large. On earth in McKay's bush, near 

 Ottawa, Ont., (1888) ; on earth at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C. (1889) ; 

 on rocks at Esquimalt, Victoria and Nanaimo, Vancouver Island ; also 

 on Mount Erskine, Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island, G-ulf of Georgia 

 (1887;. (Macoun.) 



Var. brevicuspiriatum, Kindb. (n. var.) Canadian Musci, No. 

 180. 



Leaves short-pointed. 



Bases of stumps near Victoria (1875) and at Cedar Hill (1887), Van- 

 couver Island. 



(505.) B. elegans, Esenb. 



On earth along the Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, Gaspe Co., Que., 

 August, 1882. (Macoun.) 



(506.) B. cyclophyllum, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, 

 Mosses of N. America, 237 ; Canadian Musci, No. 538. 



On stones wet with spray, Niagara Falls. (Clinton.) On stones at 

 Spray Falls, Banff, Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) Smith's Sound, be- 

 tween lat. 78 82. (Dr. Hayes.) Godhavn, Greenland. (FL Gr.} 



(507.) B. obtusifolium, Lindb. ; Fl. Greenland, 370. 

 Godhavn, and other localities in Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(508.) B. erythrophyllum, Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Closely allied to the arctic Bryum obtustfolium, Lindb. Barren stems 

 laxly cohering, blood-red, about 1 cm. high. Leaves small, reddish, 

 loosely disposed, flaccid, not decurrent, the lower ovate, subobtuse, the 

 upper leaves sometimes more attenuate, furnished with a rigid point 

 to the excurrent costa, entire, subimmarginate, not reflexed at the 

 margins ; areolations lax, nearly uniform ; costa red, percurrent or 

 slightly excurrent in a short recurved point. 



In boggy places by a brook at Truro, KS., June 12th, 1883 ; on wet 

 earth in the Illeciilewaet Canon, near Eevelstoke, B.C., May 18th, 

 1890. (Macoun.} 



