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green, about 3 cm. high: leaves small, loose when dry, open erect, decur- 

 rent, short, ovate oblong, nearly entire, more widely areolate with a red and 

 not percurrent costa; comal ones longer, lanceolate, acute or sub-obtuse, 

 narrow areolate, revolute at borders nearly all around, faintly denticulate 

 above, costa pale and sub-percurrent: capsules (not ripe), small obovate, 

 short-necked; lid low, mamillate: dioicous. Mac. Cat. 114. Close to per- 

 petual snow on Gold Range, B. C. 



277. Webera pycno-decurrens C. M. & Kmdb. Tufts dense, glossy, 

 bright green, 1-1.5 cm. high: leaves small, acute; lower ovate-oblong, 

 crowded but short decurrent; comal very much longer sublanceolate, revo- 

 lute at borders for greater part, denticulate above; inner perichsetial 

 leaves very much shorter, looser areolate; costa not excurrent: capsule obo- 

 vate, red-brown, distinctly short-necked, annulate, orange-margined at the 

 mouth; cilia sometimes appendiculate, inner membrane broad, teeth 

 finally dark yellow; lid convex, orange-margined, mamillate; pedicel genicu- 

 late at middle: dioicous. Mac. Cat. 114. On earth near perpetual snow 

 on the Gold Range, B. C. 



278. Webera camptotrachela Ren. & Card. Stems erect, slender, 

 simple or with few branches: leaves little crowded, erect, narrowly oblong 

 lanceolate; acuminate, acute; borders plane or slightly revolute below, dis- 

 tinctly denticulate in upper part; costa strong, percurrent; cells elongated, 

 sub-hexagonal or rhomboidal, 6-10 times longer than broad: external 

 perichsetial leaves more elongated, long narrowed-acuminate, more or less 

 revolute on borders, serrulate with costa generally excurrent, 2 or 3 inner 

 bracts smaller and shorter: seta reddish, flexuous, often geniculate at 

 base: capsule small, subhorizontal or cernuous, oblong sub-pyriform, tawny- 

 brown, with a long attenuated curved collum; lid convex, apiculate; an- 

 nulus double; teeth yellowish, densely trabeculate; segments of endo- 

 stome generally imperfect; cilia variable in length. Bot. Gaz. 13: 199. 

 1888. California. 



279. Webera Columbiea Kindb. Differs from W. pulchella princi- 

 pally in leaves more denticulate at least in the middle, costa red, annulus 

 detached, revoluble. Leaves small, slightly reflexed, not glossy: capsule 

 small, segments with 2 cilia. Mac. Cat. 115. Moist banks: British Co- 

 lumbia and North West Territory. 



280. Webera albicans urceolata Ren. & Card. Capsule very short. 

 Kevue Bryol. 20: 1. 1893. Oregon. 



281. Webera micro-apiculata C. M. & Kindb. Tufts small, dense 

 and shining, bright green above, decolorate below, about 2 cm. high: 

 leaves small, narrow areolate, densely imbricate and appressed when dry, 

 when moistened sub-erect, not decurrent, ovate-lanceolate with a needle- 

 shaped often incurved point, lower nearly entire, comal a little longer, 



