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costa red, subpercurrent ; perichetial leaves narrower, sub-acute and 

 nai-row-areolate. Capsule inclined, obovate-oblong, short-necked, con- 

 stricted below the mouth when dry, purplish-brown ; peristome pale- 

 yellow ; inner membrane low ; cilia short, nodulose or appendiculate ; 

 spores small, about 0.016 mm. ; lid conical, short-apiculate ; pedicel 

 geniculate at the base. Dioecious. 



This species is nearly allied to £. miniatum but the stems are more 

 radiculose and very much less foliate, the leaves rarely purplish, and 

 their areolation wider. The capsule of neither species is larger than 

 in Bryum coispiticium, smaller than in Bryum Atwaterice. The leaves in 

 Bryum percurrmtinerve are larger and bright green. 



On the summit of Hermit Mountain close to the glacier on the west 

 side,,Eoger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B.C., August 5th, 1890. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) 



(503.) B. anoectangiaceum, CM. &Eindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts compact, radiculose, small, scarcely 2 cm. high. Leaves small, 

 rose-colored, loosely disposed, not decurrent, spirally contorted in a 

 dry state, ovate-acute, pellucid, narrow-marginate, entire, faintly 

 revolute, laxly areolate ; costa thick, reddish, percurrent or short- 

 excurrent. Probably monoecious, but the male flowers not well 

 developed. 



This peculiar species is perhaps nearly allied to Bryum erythrophyllum 

 On rocks by the toiTent at Hector, Eocky Mountains, B.C., August 

 12th, 1890. iMacoun.) 



(504.) B. capillare, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 235 ; Canadian Musci, No. 179. 



Pictou Co., N.S. (McKay.) On rich earth on rocks, Gilmour's 

 Park, Chelsea, Que. ; on roots of trees in woods at Belleville, and in 

 McKay's Woods, Ottawa, Ont. ; on rocks, '' Dry Canon," discharge of 

 Devil's Lake, Eocky Mountains ; on rocks at Sicamous, Agassiz and 

 Hastings, B.C. ; Salt Spring Island, Gulf of Georgia, B.C. (Macoun.) 

 Near London, Ont. (J. Dearness.) Sitka. {Both. Alask.) Gi-een- 

 land. {Fl. Gr.) 



* B. heteroneuron, C. M. & Kindb. (n. subsp.) 



B. Domanwm, Bull. Terr. Bot. Club, XVII., 273. 



B. obconicum, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVII,, 274; Canadian Musci, No. 181. 



B. provinciale, Canadian Musci, No- 171. 



Diflers in the leaves being finally purplish-colored, less contorted 

 when dry, distinctly serrate above, finally red-margined, the costa 



