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874. Polytrichnm juniperinnm Waghornei Kindb. — Leares dentate 

 in upper part, not in lower part only; marginal cells papillose. Mac. Cat. 

 155. — Labrador. 



375. Bnxbanmia indasiata Brid. — Dioieous: very similar to B. 

 aphylla: seta 5-10 mm. high, thicker, yellowish red with smaller warts; 

 capsule erect or sub-erect, when old less inclined, ovate-oblong, both 

 surfaces same color, slightly shining, pale olive-green, when empty yellow- 

 ish brown; dorsal surface faintly swollen, the external cuticle at length 

 ruptured along the dorsal side and revolute; neck shorter and thicker; lid 

 shorter, convex-conic; annulus narrower: separating as single cells; outer 

 peristome free, formed of three or four rows of teeth; teeth numerous, ir- 

 regular, small on outside; larger within, linear, triangular in cross section, 

 perforate here and there in middle line, pale red, papillose, when moist 

 erect; inner peristome as in B. aphylla. Limpr. Laubm. 2: 640. — On de- 

 caying coniferous logs: Washington; Idaho; Oatskill Mts., N. Y. 



376. Bnxbanmia Piperi Best. — Dioieous: stemless; leaves reduced to 

 yellowish ovate-oblong or palmate crenate-laciniate bracts; cells oblong 

 hexagonal: bracts of fertile plants producing long rhizoids enveloping the 

 fleshy vaginule in a felt like mass; seta about 1 cm., arcuate or flexuose, 

 warty, obliquely inserted; capsule inclined, ovate oblong, unsymmetric, 

 greenish, becoming pale yellow, section broadly elliptical, upper surface not 

 deeply impressed nor strongly margined; neck distinct; cuticle thin, not 

 glossy or but slightly so, rolling back in segments after loosening of 

 broadly conical obtuse operculum; endostome of linear papillose hyaline 

 fluted segments, lightly cohering by their thickened margins forming a 

 truncated cone; peristome of a single layer, with rudiments of a second 

 deeply inserted, teeth linear, reddish or dirty white, papillose, articulated, 

 revolute. lightly connate; pseud-annulus usually of 3 layers. Bull. Torr.Bot. 

 Club 20: 116. 1893. — On rotten wood or on ground covered with woody 

 debris: Washington; Idaho. 



377. Fontinalis antipyretica Oregonensis Een. & Card. — Stems very 

 slender, soft, pinnate, yellowish and shining above, not naked below; stem 

 leaves distant, open, lanceolate; branches cuspidate; branch leaves erect, 

 imbricate at the top of branches; cells very long and narrow. Bot. Gaz.l4: 

 96. 1889. — In swamps, on roots of trees: Oregon. 



378. Fontinalis antipyretica rigens Ren. & Card. — Plants rigid, 

 shining, of a yellowish or copper green recalling the aspect of Hypnum 

 cordifolium: stems rigid, naked at base, branches spreading divaricate: 

 leaves distant, spreading or erect-spreading, imbricate only at ends of 

 branches, lanceolate, obtuse or sub-obtuse; cells narrow, elongated; frutifl- 

 cation unknown. Monog. des Fontin. in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 28: 

 55. 1892. — Washington; Vancouver Island. 



