NOVA SCOTIAN MOSSES—SOMERS. 269 
ArTicLE V.—A CONTRIBUTION TQWARDS THE STUDY OF Novas 
ScoTIAN Mosses.—By JoHN Somers, M. D., F.R. M.S. 
(Read February 14, 1881.) 
THE following additions to the Moss Flora of the Province, 
see “ Vol. IV, V, Transactions, 1877, 78, 79 and ’80,” have 
been collected during the past season: 
Sect.—Pleurocarpi. 
OrpD.—Fontinalei. 
Genus—I. Fontinalis. 
Fontinalis, antipyretica, L. 
Sporangium, immersed, stems triquetrous, leaves sharply 
keeled, the margin reflected on one side; on stones in running 
brooks, near Truro, Sept. 1880: essentially the same as the 
European species. 
OrDER—Hypnei. 
Grnus—Hypnum. 
FHypnum, demissum, Wils. 
Stem prostrate, branched, more or less divided ; leaves secund, 
narrow, lanceolate, sporangium small, cernuous; lid with a long, 
slender beak. On quartzite rocks, Truro, Sept. ’80. 
Hypnum, denticulatum, L. 
Leaves complanate, ovate, apiculate} margin recurved, two- 
neryed, toothed sporangium; oblone curved, cernuous; lid conical, 
acute. On banks of brooks in damp, shady places. Aug, ’S0. 
OrDER—Isothecii. 
GENUS—Climacium. 
Climacium, dendroides, Web. & Mhov. 
Dendroid, rhizome, creeping stem, naked below ; erect, divid- 
ing above like a miniature tree; leaves ovate, lanceolate, toothed 
above; nerve reaching the tip; fruitstalks strong, red; aggregated 
sporangium ; large, erect, lid rostrate. By banks of brooks in 
marshy places (Truro), bearing fruit abundantly. Sept.. ’89. 
I have examined this species very closely, and find no differ- 
