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258. Bartraiula circiunatnla 0. M. & Kindb. — Also allied to B. pomi- 

 formis but still more distinct than B. glauooviridis : leaves green, loosely 

 disposed, circinate, long sheathing, very long cuspidate: costa longer ex- 

 current: probably dioicous. Mac. Oat. 105. — On rocks: Hastings, Burrard 

 Inlet, B. C. 



269. Philonotis foutana csespitosa Sch. — Stems usually simple, leaves 

 more distant than those of P. fontana, more or less seound, oval, short 

 acuminate, toothed, plane on border, not plicate: perigonial leaves broader 

 than long, triangular, subulate, costa reaching apex. Husnot, Muse. 

 Gall. 269. — Indiana; Illinois. 



260. Philonotis fontana inicroblasta C. M. & Kindb. — Male flowers 

 very small, brown; perigonial leaves all acute, strongly costate. Mac. Oat. 

 107.— On damp earth: Rogers Pass, Selkirk Mts., B. 0. 



261. Philonotis fontana Columbia Kindb. — Lower leaves narrow, costa 

 long excurrent, perigonial leaves acute or subacute. Mac. Oat. 107. — On 

 wet rocks: Revelstoke, B. 0. 



P. fontana braohyphylla Kindb., Prince Edward Is., and P. fontana 

 serrata Kindb., Selkirk Mts. and Islands of Behring Sea, are nomina 

 nuda. Mac. Oat. 107. 



262. Philonotis seriata Mitt. — Dioicous: in stifiish yellow-green tufts 

 with rufous tomentum, readily falling asunder, and with habit of P. fon- 

 tana: leaves in spiral rows, imbricated when dry, erect or sub-falcate, di- 

 morphous, those of male innovations ovate, bluntish, nerve vanishing, the 

 rest deltoid ovate, acutely pointed: nerve thick, reaching apex or vanish- 

 ing, all somewhat decurrent, concave, with two deep plaits at base on each 

 side, margin revolute in lower third, bluntly toothed by single or double 

 papilte; nerve very strong, rough at back, reaching to apex; cells above 

 small and rectangular, with a papilla at lower and often at upper end, be- 

 low laxer, oval, and longish with a central papilla on both sides: perichse- 

 tial leaves with nerve excurrent: capsule on a long straight seta, cernu- 

 ous striate and furrowed; lid conic obtuse; peristome rufous, endostome 

 orange, finely papillose. Braithw. Brit. Moss Flora 2: 212. — Washington. 



263. Philonotis glabriuscula Kindb. — Tufts radiculose below, i cm. 

 high: stem slender: leaves small, green, distant, spreading and straight 

 when moist, indistinctly decurrent, short ovate-lanceolate, short acumi- 

 nate, acute, slightly papillose, pellucid, plane at margins, not plicate, min- 

 utely serrulate principally above; cells oblong hexagonal, the lower nar- 

 rower, less chlorophyllose; costa sub-percurrent: barren. Mac. Oat. 107.— 

 By springs; Oanaan Forks, N. B. 



264. Mielichhoferia cuspidifera Kindb.— Differs from M. nitida in 

 leaves broad-ovate, suddenly cuspidate, entire or slightly crenulate above, 

 cells a little wider and costa often percurrent. Mac. Oat. 110. — On damp 

 rocks: Hector, Rocky Mountains. 



