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Isothecium myosuroides, trails from the branches of moribund 
evergreens, its long pendulous tresses often in full fruit in early Spring. 
Eurhynchium Oreganum occurs on Pender Island, Gulf of Georgia 
and elsewhere, choosing rotting stumps as a habitat and fruiting well. 
Funaria hygrometrica is a mysterious apparition, offspring of fire 
and not of water, springing up in crowded ranks wherever the soil has 
been thoroughly calcined by recent fire. A conflagration that has 
burned a forest to the roots and left no remnant but red ashes and 
desolation is sure to call up ten millions on ten millions of the tiny 
things so closely packed that no insect can penetrate the thicket. 
Always in some stage of dense fruit, 
Dicranella Schreberi, rare, at Sicamous. 
Dicranoweisia cirrhata in small dense tufts on scorched and decay- 
ing timber in densest fruit in early spring. 
Aulacomnium androgynum, not rare on rotten wood and bearing its 
characteristic sporophytes and gemmae in abundance. 
Sphagnums of numerous species and varieties occur wherever suit- 
able conditions prevail but fruit from any of them is exceedingly rare, 
although patient search in high boots is sometimes rewarded with 
scant returns. 
It is generally supposed that mosses avoid salt water, but at Mi- 
ner’s Bay, Gulf of Georgia, there occurs a beautiful variety of un- 
known name which thrives on the rocks lapped by the ocean water at 
high tide. It has not been noticed in fruit but appears to be a true 
terrestrial moss and a very beautiful one. 
Isothecium Brewerianum is abundant on the bases of Douglas Firs 
on Mayne Island and elsewhere, fruiting freely in autumn. 
Pogonatum capillare, on wet clay banks at Lake Coquitlan in fine 
fruit. 
Dicranum fuscescens, on decaying conifers very common and 
always in some stage of fruit. 
Claopodium crispifolium is abundant everywhere on rotting timber in 
damp and shady woods. 
This list of British Columbia Mosses represents, without any 
attempt at scientific arrangement, a small part only of the contents of 
the writer's covers. 
New Westminster, British Columbia. 
REVIEW.-GENERA HEPATICARUM 
Cle Synoptique avec Figures de tous les Genres connus d'Hepatiques. 
L’Abbe Charles Lacouture, Professor of Natural History at the 
College Saint-Clement of Metz, finished the above work before his 
death. It was his wish to prepare a practical, non-technical key to 
