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(778.) E. Stokesii, (Turn.) Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum Slokesii, Turn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 354 ; 



Canadian Musci, No. 297. 



Hypnum pr&longum, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 353. 

 H. Mans, Canadian Musci, No. 442 in part. 



British Columbia, near the 49th parallel. (Lyall*) Vancouver 

 Island. (Ijyall, Wood.') On earth in woods at Revelstoke ; abun- 

 dant on wet rocks and earth at Hastings, Burrard Inlet and 

 Agassiz, B.C. ; on rocks and old logs at Victoria, Esquimault, Nanaimo 

 and Comox, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.*) On rocks, Alert Bay, Van- 

 couver Island. (Dawson.) 



(779.) E. Oreganum, (Sulliv.) Lesq. & James. 



Hypnum Oreganum, Sulliv. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 355 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 298. 



British Columbia, near the 49th parallel. (Lyall) Vancouver 

 Island. (Wood.} Very abundant on logs and the bases of trees around 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.*) Melaspina Inlet, Gulf of 

 Georgia, B.C. (Dawson.} 



(780.) E. (Brachythecium?) semiasperum, C. M. & Kindb. 

 (n. sp.) ; Canadian Musci, No. 507. 



Plant loosely tufted, green. Secondary stems sparingly radiculose, 

 branching at one side ; branches generally simple, acute, 1 cm. long 

 or shorter. Leaves subpatent, from a broad-cordate base, fine acumi- 

 nate, decurrent, nearly entire ; alar cells numerous, reaching to the 

 costa ; the other cells narrower, the lower dilated ; costa vanishing 

 above the middle. Capsule small, suboval, erect or inclined ; teeth 

 papillose above j segments shorter than the high basilar membrane ; 

 lid narrow, short-rostellate ; pedicel rough at least to the middle, 

 smooth below, 0.6 cm. long. Perichetial leaves suboblong, short- 

 acuminate, erect, entire and nerveless. Monoecious. 



The species is well-distinct from all our Eurhynchia and rather allied 

 to Brachythecium plumosum. 



On rocks in a small mountain brook at Deer Park, Lower Arrow 

 Lake, Columbia River, B.C., June 6th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(781.) E. crassinerve, (Tayl.) Schimp. var. laxorete, Kindb. 

 n. var. (n. sp. ?) , 



Differs in the leaves being nearly entire or faintly denticulate above, 

 shorter-acuminate, and the cells larger. Only male flowers found. 

 The allied E. colpophyltum, (Sulliv) Lesq. & James, is described as 



