300 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 



237. Encalypta leiomitra Kindb. Nearly allied to E. rhabdocarpa, 

 but leaves shorter, oftensubspathulate, costa vanishing at apex: peristome 

 teeth nearly blunt; calyptra not papillose; spores larger. Mac. Cat. 94. 

 On rocks: Clear water River, Athabasca. 



238. Encalypta cucullata C. M. & Kindb. Monoicous: leaves cucul- 

 late, perichsetial ones long acuminate acute, with a long hair point; costa 

 percurrent, red at base: calyptra papillose all around. Mac. Cat. 96. On 

 earth: Columbia river, near Revelstoke, B. C. 



239. Encalypta leiocarpa Kindb. Monoicous: stem 3-4 cm. high, 

 dichotomously branched, radiculose: leaves erect-patent, Ungulate, faintly 

 re volute nearly all around, without a hair point; lower decolorate brown, 

 sub-acute, incurved; comal larger, green, obtuse, slightly twisted; basal 

 cells hyaline, marginal very papillose; costa faintly papillose, not excur- 

 rent, in lower leaves brown, in comal green or reddish at base; perigonial 

 leaves with a short thick tip: capsule straight, smooth, cylindric with an 

 apophysis; peristome simple, orange; pedicel red; calyptra papillose all 

 around, not fringed. Mac. Cat. 95. Crevices of rocks: summit of 

 Mount Queest, B. C. 



240. Encalypta Alaskana Kindb. Differs from E. longipes Mitt, 

 principally in capsule striate and not apophysate, peristome brown red, ap- 

 pressed to mouth when moist, costa nearly smooth: monoicous: lid of 

 capsule obliquely rostrate. Mac. Cat. 269. Mixed with a Bryum 

 on earth: Ounalaska Island, Behring Sea. 



241. Encalypta apophysata N. & H. Stems 5-20 mm. high, erect, 

 branching, in compact dark green tufts: leaves erect spreading when moist, 

 crispate when dry, undulate, lanceolate elongate, apiculate by excurrent 

 costa, revolute at base: seta rough at base, yellow above; capsule cylindric, 

 thin-walled, smooth; collum thick and distinct; lid conic, long beaked; 

 teeth of peristome long, linear, entire or lacunose along middle line, 

 articulations quite numerous, orange, papillose; hood irregularly lobed 

 and laciniate at base; spores papillose. Husnot, Muse. Gall. 198. Rocky 

 Mountains. 



242. Merceya latifolia Kindb. Densely cespitose: plants 1-2 cm. high, 

 brown-ferruginous below, green at tips, divided, at base radiculose: leaves 

 quite smooth, spathulate-lingulate, obtusate or subacute, entire, slightly 

 reflexed at base, plane above, broad-bordered with larger, orange -colored 

 cells; basal cells narrow, upper small and round; costa percurrent or scarcely 

 excurrent. Habit of JBarbula ruralis. Mac. Cat. 97. On upper slopes 

 of Mount Finlayson near Goldstream, Vancouver Island; California. 



243. Tayloria acuminata Hsch. Monoicous: tufts more lax and gen- 

 erally shorter than in T. splachnoides : stem reddish tomentose, with 

 numerous gemmae: leaves soft, loosely appressed or spreading, with re- 

 flexed point, when dry falcate, rhombic-lanceolate, long pointed; margins 



