340 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ NOVEMBER 
and bracteoles practically indistinguishable) in three rows, leaves 
of innermost row slightly complicate, ovate, 1.4™™ long, 0.75™™ 
wide, bifid about one-fourth with narrow sharp-pointed lobes 
and sinus, margin subentire or bearing a few small and irregular 
lobe-like teeth, marginal papillae numerous, especially at the 
apices of the teeth; leaves of outermost row small and sub- 
orbicular, truncate at the apex or slightly bifid with a broad 
sinus, marginal papillae few, mostly at the base; leaves of middle 
row intermediate in character; perianth oblong in outline, con- 
tracted at the base and at the apex, 3.4™™ long, 0.95™™ wide, 
obtusely three-keeled, somewhat plicate in the upper part, mouth 
slightly and irregularly lobed, the divisions entire or very vaguely 
crenulate from projecting cells: ¢ inflorescence occupying a 
short branch; bracts in three or four pairs, complicate, slightly 
bifid or truncate, inflated near the antical base and commonly 
bearing a small inflexed tooth at about the middle of the antical 
margin; bracteoles similar to the underleaves; antheridia borne 
singly: capsule oval; spores brownish, minutely verruculose, 
14p in diameter; elaters gu in diameter, bispiral: gemmiparous 
branches long and worm-like, simple, terminating normal vege- 
tative branches, prostrate or ascending; leaves in three equal 
ranks (the underleaves being similar to the side-leaves) sub- 
transversely inserted, imbricated, concave, oblong, variously 
erose-dentate along margin in upper part and at apex; gemmae 
oval to pyriform, arising singly or in chains from the margin 
and outer surface of the leaves and finally from the stem- 
apex, one-celled or usually two-celled, with a thick outer wall 
and a thin transverse partition, occasionally mixed with slime- 
papillae. 
On banks. GREENLAND: Claushavn (Berggren); Cape Stewart (Hartz); 
Hurry Inlet, Cape Franklin, Cape Mary (Dusén). YuKon: Dawson (W%/- 
Ziams); Hunker Creek, Gold Run Creek (Macoun). ONTARIO: ‘25 miles 
north of Michepicoten and near Otter Head, Lake Superior” (J/acoun), the 
type localities. MINNESOTA: near Grand Marais, north shore of Lake 
Superior (H/o/zinger). Also reported from Spitzbergen (Berggren) and from 
Norway (Kaa/aas, Jérgensen). 
Exsic.: Can, Hep. 101 (as Cephalozia Austini), 
