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BRAGHYTHECIUM PAGIFIGUM, NEW SPECIES^ 



O. E. Jennings 



Brachythecium pacificum, sp. nov. — Rather densely cespitose, lustrous, 

 light green, becoming yellowish-green in the older parts: stems slender, reaching 

 a length of ii cm. or more, prostrate, castaneous-radiculose; branches more or 

 less regularly pinnately arranged, ascending or erect, reaching about 2 cm. in 

 length; stem-leaves spreading, deltoid-ovate from a somewhat decurrent base. 



Fig. I. Brachythecium pacificum Jennings 



concave, gradually and slenderly acuminate, strongly plicate when dry, moder- 

 ately so when moist, about 1.8-2.4 mm. long, 0.9-1. i mm. wide, moderately 

 auriculate, entire-margined (or very faintly serrate) ; costa strong, ending slightly 

 above the middle of leaf; median leaf-cells linear, prosenchymatous, about 

 6-7 /i wide by 45-70 /u long, medium- walled, the basal larger and colored at in- 



^ Published by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



