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culate. — Sandy places by rivers and rivulets in northern alps 

 r. Eur. Norway; Sweden: Arnell. Pinl.: Brotherus. Amer. Greenl.: 

 Berggren. Alaska: J. M. Macoun. Can.: J. and J. M. Maeoun; 

 Breutel. 



* B.opdaleuse Limpricht. 



Leaves shorter, more distinctly limbate. Capsule with shor- 

 ter neck. — Eur. Norway!; Kaurin. 



* B.antnmnale Limpricht. — »Webera hermaphrodita Ren. et 

 Card.»: Waghorne. 



Leaves suboval, longer decurrent. Shoots shorter, yellowish 

 green. Capsule somewhat longer necked; teeth brown-yellow; 

 lid apiculate. — R. Eur. Norway!; Kaurin. Amer. Can.: Wag- 

 home. 

 126.B.subpurpurascens Kindb, cat. Can. m. 



Leaves long-decurrent oblong-lanceolate reddish limbate rose- 

 red; costa scarcely excurrent. Capsule very narrow, distinctlj' 

 strangulate, curved when unripe; teeth orange; lid large conic 

 obtuse. Spores smaller than in the last; fruiting stem more 

 distinct. Dioecious. — Wet earth r. Amer. Can. Brit. Col. by 

 a railway: Macoun. 



b. Spores gen. very large. Capsule gen. thick; teeth orange, 

 incurved when dry; pedicel us. very long and thick. Leaves 

 gen. not decurrent, more or less reflexed. Cilia gen. not ap- 

 pendiculate (»in Californian specimens sometimes long-appendi- 

 culates: Lesq. et Jam.). Stems and shoots short. 

 127.B.warneum Blandow. — B. oelandicum Philibert. 



Leaves not crowded, gen. narrow-limbate and faintly reflexed, 

 sometimes short- decurrent, suboval, sometimes denticulate above, 

 often finally rose-red; costa percurrent or short-excurrent. Cap- 

 sule large oval-globose reddish yellow or finally reddish brown; 

 lid convex mamillate. Spores often about 0,05 m. m. Some- 

 times synoecious. The iflagelliform shoots », delineated in Br. 

 eur., not are essential. — Wet sand, princ. near sea, r. in 

 alps, r. Eur. Sweden! Germany: Warnstorf. France: Boulay. 

 Amer. »U. S.»: Lesq. et J. 



128.B.Biddlecomi8e Austin. — B. Edwardsianum C. M. et 

 Kindb. I. c. 



Differs from the last in leaves narrower, longer acuminate, 

 entire, more distinctly limbate and reflexed; costa long-excur- 

 rent. Capsule narrower, less inflated, more strangulate; lid 

 lower. — Damp sandy soil r. Amer., Can., Prince Edw. isl.: 

 Macoun. »U. S., Colorado»: Lq. et J. 



