MAcouN.] CATALOGUE OP CANADIAN PLANTS. 119 



(45*7.) B. purpurascens, Brach & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, 

 Mosses of IST. America, 224. 



Melville Island. {Parry.) Eocky Mountains. (Bourgeau.) Eainy 

 Lake, British America. (JB.uhhard.') Smith's Sound between lat. 

 •78°— 82=>. {Dr. Hayes.) Common in Greenland. {Fl. Qr.) Labra- 

 dor. (Gremann fide Kindberg.) 



(458.) B. subpurpurascens, Kindb. (n. sp.) ; Canadian Musci, 

 No. 593. 



Agreeing with B. purpurascens in the red tufts, the elongate shoots, 

 the costa scarcely or faintly excurrent, the capsule long-necked, con- 

 stricted below the mouth, teeth orange-colored, segments free, cilia 

 smooth, spores small, lid large, mammillate, pedicel red ; differs in the 

 inflorescence being dioecious, all leaves red-margined, long-excurrent, 

 and principally in the curved subclavate capsule, resembling that of 

 Bryum meeseoides. 



On wet earth by the railway at Port Moody, Burrard Inlet, B.C., 

 April 23rd, 1889. {Macoun.) 



(459.) B. Brownii, Bruch & Schimp.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 N. America, 224. 



Melville Island. {Parry.) Eocky Mountains. {Bourgeau.) Franz 

 Josephs Fjord, Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) 



(460.) B. pendulum, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 225 ; Canadian Musci, Wo. 167. 



New Harbor, Newfoundland. {Rev. A. Waghorne.) On rotten 

 wood, Bass Eiver, Kent Co. and Carleton, N.B. {Fowler's Oat.) Cape 

 Prince of Wales and Digge's Island, Hudson Strait. {B. Bell.) 

 Crevices of rocks, Salt Lake, Anticosti ; also at Campbellton, N.B. ; on 

 earth at Ottawa, and along the shore of Lake Huron ; also at Swan 

 Lake House, Man, ; on rocks, Kananaskis Falls, Bow Eiver Pass and 

 Banff, Eocky Mountains ; Stewart's Lake and Nechacco Eiver, B.C. 

 {Macoun.) Clearwater Eiver, N.W.T. ; and St. Paul Island, Behring 

 Sea. {J. M. Macoun.) Upernivik, Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) 



(461.) B. angustirete, Kindb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. XVI. 94. 



Differs from B. pendulum in the leaves being narrow, ovate-lanceolate, 

 reflexed all around ; upper areolation very narrow, sublinear, basal 

 cells reddish ; costa red. Capsule sub-cylindric ; pedicel arcuate above ; 

 teeth paler ; spores small, scarcely 0.02 mm. Synoecious. 



On damp earth at the railway bridge over the Kananaskis, Eocky 



