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nia. On shaded rocks in the West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in Bear 

 River Canon of the Uintas ; 7-7,500 feet altitude. (1,408.) 



aEiMMiA (Schistidium) apocaepa, (Br. & Sch.) Europe, Asia, Africa 

 and South America ; very common in the Eastern States ; throughout Can- 

 ada and British America to the Arctic Ocean ; Yosemite Valley, California, 

 and on the Colorado River in Arizona. A variety was collected on rocks in 

 Bear River Canon in the Uintas ; 7,500 feet altitude. (1,409.) 



G-EIMMIA ANODON, Br. & Sch. An interesting species, distinguished by 

 its small cushions of a dark-green aspect at the surface and yellovs^ish-brown 

 color below, the subglobose capsule entirely immersed by reason of its short 

 curved fruitstalk, and the peristome wanting. Central and "Western Europe ; 

 New Brunswick. On limestone rocks in Secret Valley, eastern base of the 

 East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 6,000 feet altitude. (1,410.) 



Geimmia PULTiiirATA, Dill. In nearly all quarters of the world, not arc- 

 tic ; Disco Island and Cumberland Sound, (Taylor ;) Fort Colville, (Lyall ;) 

 Clear Lake and Russian River, California; Bill Williams Fork, Arizona. 

 On dry rocks near hot springs in the Hot Spring Mountains, Nevada, at 

 4,500 feet altitude, and on rocks in Bear River Canon, Uintas; 7-10,000 

 feet altitude. (1,411.) 



GrEiMMiA OEBicuLAEis, Br. & Sch. This elegant species differs from 

 G. pulvinata in the following respects : Leaves narrower, the marginal cel- 

 lules At the base enlarged; pedicel pale-yellow; capsule smaller, roundish, 

 from yellow passing to bright red in ripening, smooth and glossy while recent, 

 obscurely ribbed when dry, the walls thinner and without the blackish border 

 at the orifice ; annulus much narrower ; operculum very short, scarcely apicu- 

 late ; teeth of the peristome paler red, shorter and broader, with more distinct 

 transverse bars, trifid, occasionally quadrifid, and much cribose below ; 

 calyptra dimidiate, not mitriform, and fugaceous. — Temperate and Southern 

 Europe ; Algeria ; Western Asia ; not before collected in America. On 

 rocks near Carson City, Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude. (1,412.) 



Geimmia ovata, Web. & Mohr. Europe; Asia; Sandwich Islands; 

 New York ; from Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains, (Drummond,) and 

 in the Barrens of Arctic America, (Richardson.) On dry rocks in the 

 Truckee and West Humboldt Moimtains, Nevada; 4,700-7,000 feet alti- 

 tude. (1,413.) 



Geimmia caltpteata, Hook. Rocky Mountains of British America, 



