306 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 



265. Webera Cardoti Ren. Loosely cespitose, pale green or yellowish: 

 stems simple, erect, slender, rigid and brittle: leaves small, erect, imbri- 

 cate, oblong-lanceolate, decurrent, strongly revolute on borders, obtuse or 

 sub-obtuse, rarely sub-acute, generally sinuate denticulate at apex; costa 

 very broad, green, percurrent or vanishing very near apex, widening below 

 and occupying one-third of base; cells lax, truncate or sub-attenuate, 2-3 

 times longer than broad: seta reddish, flexuous, often geniculate at base; 

 capsule oblong-sub-pyriform, symmetric, erect, yellowish or brownish, tap- 

 ering to an attenuate neck; lid conic; peristome small, pale yellow, pellu- 

 cid, very minutely papillose; teeth triangular-lanceolate, long acuminate, 

 lamellae 15-20; endostome more or less perfect, with split segments and 

 cilia, or reduced to a variously raised and lacerate membrane; annulus 

 compound (2-3). Bot. Gaz. 14: 95. 1889. On wet sandy rill-banks: Mt. 

 Hood, Oregon. 



266. Webera polymorphoides Kindb. Tufts large, dense, dull green 

 above, rufescent below, 4-5 cm. high: stem finally denudate at base, radic- 

 ulose in middle: leaves crowded, not decurrent, ovate-oblong, acute or sub- 

 obtuse, widely areolate, nearly entire and flat on borders, costa vanishing 

 below apex; comal ones longer, sub-linear-lanceolate, short-acuminate, up- 

 per cells narrow, borders reflexed for greater part, costa thick, sub-percur- 

 rent: capsule oblong, short-necked, pendent; peristome pale yellow, seg- 

 ments with narrow basal membrane, cilia short, rudimentary; annulus 

 narrow; lid mammillate; spores brown: dioicous. Mac. Cat. 111. Hermit 

 Mountain, Rogers Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B. C. 



267. Webera crnda minor Ren. & Card. Much smaller, capsule nar- 

 rower, lid conic. Bot. Gaz. 15: 43. 1890. Oregon. 



268. Webera longibracteata (Broth.) R. & C. Dioicous: loosely ces- 

 pitose, light glaucous green, shining: stem about 2 cm. high, reddish, deli- 

 cate, erect, flexuous, simple, somewhat brownish radiculose near base, 

 laxly foliate: leaves spreading, long decurrent, nearly plane, linear-lanceo" 

 late, short acuminate, acute, margin slightly revolute from base to middle, 

 or nearly plane, serrate from apex to middle, not bordered; costa pale 

 vanishing below apex; all cells elongated, narrow, scarcely chlorophyllose, 

 smooth: barren. Pohlia longibracteata Broth. Bot. Centralbl. 44: 419. 

 1890. Argillaceous earth: Astoria, Oregon. 



269. Webera nntans subdenticulata B. & S. Stem simple: stem leaves 

 narrower, longer pointed, plainly toothed; branch leaves ovate-lanceolate and 

 loosely imbricate: capsule pendent, shortened, color uniform. Limpr. 

 Laubm. 2: 251. Miquelon Island. 



270. Webera nutans macrospora Kindb. Leaves denticulate to the 

 middle; costa excurrent; spores large. Mac. Cat. 113. Summit of Gold 

 Range, B. C. 



271. Webera canaliculata C. M. & Kindb. Allied to W. nutans: 



