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sparingly tomentose in the lower part. Leaves falcate or flex- 
uous-patent when moist, flexuous-crisped when dry, often tufted, 
linear-lanceolate, canaliculate above and rather thickly subulate, 
strongly serrate on the margins, spinulose-dentate at apex; costa 
stout, about one-fourth the width of leaf-base, generally very 
rough at back, percurrent or short-excurrent into a spinulose-den- 
tate point; cells of the upper part quadrate or subrotundate, mostly 
papillose on the back, oblong or linear and smooth toward the 
base, the alar lax, inflated, brownish or hyaline. Perichetial 
leaves from an oblong sheathing base constricted into a long 
rough subula; costa narrower. Pedicel pale, at last twisted to 
the left above when dry. Capsule and peristome as in D. 
Suscescens. 
Newfoundland: Leading Pickles and Hermitage Bay (Rev. 
A. C. Waghorne, 1893 and 1895). 
Closely allied to D. fuscescens Turn., to which it might be sub- 
ordinated as a subspecies, but nevertheless easily distinguished 
by the leaves more strongly serrate, very rough on the back, less 
narrowly subulate and the nerve thicker and broader. 
DicRANUM FUSCESCENS Turn. var. Eatoni Ren. et Card. in Badd. 
de Vherb. Boissier 4:15. (Musci Am. Sept. Exsicc. no. 206).—A 
striking form, approaching var. flexicaule BS., but forming dense 
deep tufts; stems erect, not flexuose, reaching 20™ high ; leaves 
shorter; lower cells less elongated and with thinner walls, 
New Hampshire: Mt. Washington (D. C. Eaton, 1894). 
Sterile specimens only. 
We received this very interesting variety from the lamented 
D. C. Eaton some weeks before his death. 
Dicranum subfulvum.— Loosely cespitose, dark green, filled 
with earth below. Stems erect, 1-2™ high, simple or sparingly 
branched, little radiculose. Leaves erecto- -patent, flexuous, 
Crisped when dry, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate-subulate, sub- 
ula canaliculate, subentire or minutely denticulate at apex; costa 
Strong, very broad, about half width of leaf base, smooth or 
nearly so at back; cells very small, opaque, quadrate, scarcely 
papillose, somewhat larger and quadrate or short-rectangular 
Mo. Bot. Garden, 
1897. 
