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costa percurrent or short excurrent, inflorescence dioicous. Mac. Cat. 134. — 

 On rocks: British. Columbia. 



343. Bryum pygmieo-alpinnm C. M. & Kindb.— Tufts small, dense: 

 stem sparingly radiculose to the buds: leaves small, olive-green, finally 

 reddish, flaccid, not glossy, laxly areolate, hyaline; uppermost close, others 

 loosely disposed, not decurrent, very much smaller; all subovate or oval ob- 

 tuse, uppermost sometimes subacute; borders not margined nor revolute; 

 upper cells short rhomboidal; costa broad, purplish, percurrent or in upper- 

 most leaves slightly excurrent: barren. Mac. Cat. 126.— On wet rocks: 

 Vancouver Island. 



344. Bryum san^uilentnm Een. & Card.— Quite similar to B. torques- 

 cens, but more delicate: leaves when dry not twisted, scarcely bordered: 

 capsule narrower: flowers dioicous. Differs at first sight from small forms 

 of B. capillare in the narrower blood-red capsule, and in the leaves 

 scarcely or indistinctly bordered. Muse. Am. Sept. 20:31. 1893. B. 

 capillare var., Lesq. & James Man. 236. — California. 



345. Mninm cuspidatum tenellum Kindb.— Differs in all parts being 

 smaller. Mao. Cat. 136.— On earth in woods: Prince Edward Island. 



846. Mnium macrociliare C. M. & Kindb.— Bisexual: loosely tufted: 

 stem densely foliate, sometimes stoloniferous: leaves green or bright green, 

 sub-distichous, not decurrent, pale-margined, simply or doubly dentate- 

 ciliate, sub-ovate; perichffitial smaller and narrower; costa always excurrent: 

 capsules single or two, oblong, inclined or pendent; lid pale, conic, red- 

 margined, short-rostrate; teeth yellow; pedicel purplish below, yellowish 

 above. Mac. Cat. 137. — On rocks: Revelstoke, B. C; on earth in damp 

 woods: Ontario. 



347. Mnium insigne intermedium Kindb.— Agrees with M. insigne 

 in leaves long decurrent, long dentate, cells hexagonal-rotundate: differs in 

 synoicous inflorescence. Mao. Cat. 139. — On earth: Prince Edward Is- 

 land; wet rocks: British Columbia; in damp woods: Vancouver Island. 



348. Mnium serratnm Haconnii Kindb. — Inflorescence paroicous: 

 leaves red-margined; costa excurrent: lid obliquely rostrate. Mac. Cat. 

 139. — In dry woods Prince Edward Island. 



349. Mninm decurrens C. M. & Kindb. — Dioicous: loosely tufted: 

 stem very loosely foliate, naked below, elongate: leaves green or finally 

 reddish, sub-distichous, long decurrent, often red at margins and wings, 

 doubly dentate, lanceolate: inner perichaetial ones sublinear, red cuspi- 

 date; cells smaller than in M. umbratile ; costa sub-perourrent, often red, 

 in inner perichaetial leaves excurrent: capsule single, oval, inclined; lid 

 pale, conic, not margined, short apiculate, not rostrate, teeth dark yellow; 

 pedicel reddish. Resembles M. orthorrhynohum in size of capsule; leaf 

 cells not much larger: differs from M. umbratile in narrow leaves, less 

 twisted when dry. Mac. Cat. 140. — On stones: British Columbia. 



