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or decuri-ent, serrulate at least above the middle ; areolation loose ; 

 upper cells narrowly rhomboidal, inner sublinear ; alar quadrate, 

 somewhat numerous, chlorophyllose ; costa stout, reaching to f. Peri- 

 gonial leaves ecostate. Dioecious. 



On elm logs in thick woods, Brighton, Northumberland Co., Ont., 

 October 6th, 1888. (Macmn.) 



Var. setosum, Sulliv. & Lesq. 



In holes in maple trees many feet above the gi-ound at Belleville, 

 Ont.. {Macoun.') 



(718.) B. salebrosum, Bruch & Scbimp., Bryol. Burop. 



Bypnum {Braehyihedwm,) salebromm, Hoflfm. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 N. America, 336 ; Canadian Musci, No. 283 ; Drumm. Muse, Bor.- 

 Am., No. 175. 



Pictou Co., N.S. {McKay.') Norman's Cove and New Harbor, New- 

 foundland. (jRey. A. Waghorne.) Bass Eiver and Fredericton, N.B. 

 (^Fowler's Cat.) On earth, Tobique Eiver and St. John, N.B. {Hay.) 

 On earth at Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. {J. Moser.) Baie St. 

 Paul, Charlevoix Co., Que. {St. Gyr.) Moist ground, Ste. Anne des , 

 Monts Eiver, Gasp^ Co., Que. ; on stones in woods at Ottawa ; on logs 

 in woods at Belleville, Brighton, Wooler and Lake Superior, Ont. ; on 

 logs, Grreen Lake, N.W.T. ; decayed trunks. Moose Mountain, Assini- 

 boia ; on logs along Peace Eiver, lat. 56° ; on stones at Morley, Hector 

 and Banff, Eocky Mountains ; on logs at Agassiz, B.C. ; and on earth at 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Common in cedar swamps 

 at London, Ont. {J. Dearness.) Saskatchewan. {Bourgeau.) Pend 

 d'Oreille Eiver, B.C. {Lyall.) In marshy ground ; rare. {Brum- 

 mond.) Kotzebue Sound. {Both. Alask.) Cape Vancouver, Alaska, 

 1891. (J. M. Macoun.) Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) 



* B. mammilligerum, Kindb. (n. subsp.) 



Monoecious. Tufts very dense and radiculose. Stem subpinnate. 

 Leaves very patent in a dry state, striate, long, narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, often filiform-pointed, borders not, or narrowly, recurved, 

 faintly serrate ; alar cells few ; costa ordinarily vanishing in the middle, 

 sometimes longer. Perichetial leaves long-aristate. Perigonial leaves 

 subuliform-pointed. Capsule suboval, curved ; segments -narrowly 

 rimose,jnot open ; cilia nodose, not appendiculate ; annulus none ; lid 

 mammillate ; pedicel long, smooth. 



On old wet logs near a spring along the road leading south from 

 Sicamous, B.C., July 19th, 1889. {Macoun.) 



