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narrowly lanceolate-linear exc. the Bubquadrate alar and lower 

 marginal. Apical cells of branch-leaves linear hyaline. Cap- 

 sule small oval-oblong or subcylindric; teeth orange; segments 

 brittle; basal membrane nearly indistinct; cilia none; lid conic 

 acute. Branches straight. Tufts us. green not glossy. Habit 

 of Pseudoleskea. — Trees princ. in southern distr. r. Eur. 

 France; Husnot. Italy: Bottini. 

 ""LtSaxicola (Br. eur., as var.) Molendo. 



Leaves somewhat larger, gen. shorter-acuminate and denticu- 

 late near apex, us. yellowish and glossy. Branches often cur- 

 ved. Resembles Pseudoleskea decipiens. R. fruit. — Alp. rocks. 

 Eur. not r. Norway fruit. I 

 '2.L.imperfecta C. M. et Kindb. cat. Canad. m. 



Differs from L. striata: Leaves from short subovate recurved 

 base suddenly narrowed to a long subulate or filiform acumen, 

 distinctly decurrent; upper and middle cells oval-oblong, inner 

 near costa oblong-linear. Capsule oblong; endostomial mem- 

 brane distinct: cilia short; lid subobtuse. — Earth and trees r. 

 Amer. Can. Brit. Col.: Macoun. 



B. Costa of some leaves long-excurrent. Uppei' branch-lea- 

 ves often mamillose above. 



S.L.stenophylla Renauld et Cardot. — Pseudoleskea Ren. et 

 Card.; Lescureea Kindb. 



Leaves narrowly ovate-lanceolate gradualh' long-acuminate 

 nearly entire, recurved below; upper cells suboblong, lower 

 inner oblong-lanceolate. Capsule suboblong erect or finally in- 

 clined; teeth brownish; segments as high (very narrow); basal 

 membrane very low. Tufts green or yellowish. — Rocks and 

 trees r. Amer. Pacif. distr. Can. alp. region: Macoun. U. S.: 

 Roell, com. Cardot. 

 4.L.frigida Kindb. n. sp. 



Leaves from subovate base nearly gradually narrowed to the 

 long subulate or filiform-pointed acumen, recurved to it and 

 distinctly decurrent; cells sublinear except the quadrate alar; 

 costa sometimes long-excurrent. Stem-leaves gen. entire; branch- 

 leaves serrulate at the whole acumen, sometimes short-acumi- 

 nate and faintly mamillose. Capsules unknown. Stem sub- 

 pinnate. Tufts dark brown or blackish, not glossy. Very di- 

 stinct in serrulate branch-leaves and very narrow leaf-cells. — 

 Amer. r. Can. Northern Labrador: Macoun 1896. 



28. Myrinia Schimper. 

 l.M.pulTinata Wahlenberg. — Leskea Wng; Myrinia Schim- 

 per; Helicodontium Lindb. 



