Bryum meesioides Kindb.

-DRYUM MEESioiDES, Kindberg^ n. sp.
Dioecious, densely csespitose. Stem 1-2 c. m. high, reddish.
Leaves yellowish, brown-margined, not decurrent, ovate oblong
or short lanceolate, short acuminate, faintly denticulate at apex,
slightly reflexed on the borders at the base, cells rhomboidal-
oblong; costa red, scarcely excurrent, abbreviated in the lower
leaves; male flowers discoid ; perigonal leaves ovate-lanceolate,
nafrower areolate, denticulate from the middle ; perichetial leaves
narrow, more acuminate. Capsule narrowly pyriform, defluent
to a longer collum, immature arcuate, pale, wide-mouthed, con-
stricted below the mouth; lid convex, pale-yellow, mamillate,
teeth pale yellow, connivent; annulus double; cilia perfect, long
and appendiculate; basilar membrane very low or indistinct;
pedicel 2-3 cm. long; spores very small, about 0.01 mm.
Differs from B. turbinatum in the leaves being narrower,
brown margined and not decurrent; cells smaller; perigonial
leaves denticulate; capsule arcuate and long-necked; spores
smaller. Abundant in wet places at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island.
Collected April 26, 1887, by John Macoun.
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