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obtuse acumen: perichetial longer-apiculate. Capsule suboval 

 red-brown smaller. Tufts lower often green. — Rocks in higher 

 alp. regions r. Eur. Switzerl.l; Schimper. Italy: Husnot m. 

 gall. Norway: R. Hartman. Sweden: E. Adlerz; E. Nyman. 



h. Leaves nearly gradually long-subulate; costa excurrent. 

 Perichetial leaves long-acuminate. Tufts green. Capsule small. 

 4.D.Roellii Kindb. in Hedwigia 1896 p. 59. 



Alar leaf-cells not well-defined or rectangular. Perichetial 

 leaves abruptly narrowed to a by costa often wholly filled 

 acumen. Capsule red-brown round-oval symmetric not strumose; 

 pedicel fiexuous or arcuate when dry, not long. Tufts very 

 compact. — Rocks in higher alp. region r. Amer. U. S. Oregon 

 mt Hood 2400 metr. a. s. near a glacier: J. Roell. 

 S.D.obliqua Kindb. note on Canad. bryol. 1893. 



Alar leaf-cells quadrate well-defined. Perichetial leaves less 

 abruptly acuminate, not filled by costa in lower part of acumen. 

 Capsule pale brown suboblong inclined curved or subobovate 

 with very small mouth, often strumose; pedicel long straight 

 or slightly curved. — Stones in alp. region r. Amer. Pacif. 

 distr. Can. Brit. Col.: J. Macoun. Alaska: J. M. Macoun. 



95 Oncoplioriis Bridel. 

 l.O.virens Swartz. ■ — Bryum Sw.; Oncophorus Brid.; Cyno- 

 dontium Schimper; C. Demetrii Ren. et Card. ? 



Leaves refiexed at borders, from suboblong base less abruptly 

 tapering to the attenuate acute entire or in upper part densely 

 denticulate acumen, more or less crisped when dry. Perichetial 

 leaves abruptly acuminate to the long-excurrent costa. Capsule 

 subovate. — Rocks princ. in alps. Eur. common in alps. 

 Norway, Switzerl.l Sweden: P. Dusen. Amer. Can.: Macoun; 

 Waghorne. 

 2.0.Wahlenbergii Bridel. 



Leaves not refiexed, from broad base abruptly tapering to a 

 sublinear entire or at apex obsoletely denticulate acumen, much 

 crisped. Perichetial leaves less abruptly tapering to a by costa 

 not wholly filled acumen. Capsule subovate or subobovate. — 

 Alp. swamps and rocks. Eur. not common. Norway! Sweden: 

 Arnell. Italy: Payot, com. Husnot. Amer. Can. common in 

 eastern colder districts: J. Macoun; Drummond; Waghorne. 

 Greenl.: Berggren. Alaska: J. M. Macoun; Palmer. 

 * O.compactus Funck. — Dicranum Punck; Oncophorus 

 Kindb. 



Leaves entire smaller. Stem and pedicel shorter; capsule 



