MACOUN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 97 



57. MERCEYA, Schimp. 



(375.) M. (Scopelophila) latifolia, Kindb., Bull. Torr.Bot. Club, 

 XVI., 94 ; Canadian Musci, No. 459. 



Densely caespitose. Plants 1-2 cm. high, brown-fei-ruginous below, 

 green at the tips, divided, at the base radiculose. Leaves quite smooth, 

 spathulate-lingulate, obtusate or sub-acute, entire, slightly reflexed at 

 base, plane above, broad-bordered with greater, orange-colored cells ; 

 basal cells narrow, upper small and round ; costa percurrent or scarcely 

 excurrent. Habit of Barhula ruralis. 



On the upper slopes of Mount Finlayson near Goldstream, Vancouver 

 Island, May 18th, 1887. (Macoun.) This fine species was found in 

 California (Herb. C. Mueller) but not described. (Kindberg.) 



X. TETEAPHIDE^. 



58. TETRAPHIS, Hedw. 



(376.) T. peilucida,THedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 186 ; Canadian Musci, No. 136 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 31. 



About the roots of trees in the country extending from' the Atlantic 

 to the Eocky Mountains. (JDrummond.) Chicken Bay, Trinity Bay 

 and Green Harbor, Newfoundland. {Rev. A. Waghorne.) Miquelon 

 Island. {Deldmare.') Pictou Co., N.S. (McKay.) On rotten wood, 

 common, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) On decaying stumps, Tobique Eiver, 

 N.B. (Hay.) Common on old stumps at Canaan Porks, N.B. (J. 

 Moser.) On the bases of rotten stumps in swamps across the continent. 

 Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, Gasp^ Co., Que. ; quite common on Prince 

 Edward Island ; abundant at Ottawa, Belleville, Carleton Place, Lake 

 Nipissing, Owen Sound, Wooler, Port Dover, Leamington and Lake 

 Nepigon, Ont. ; woods, shore of Lake Winnipegoosis, Man. ; Columbia 

 Eiver at Donald and Eevelstoke, also at Quesnel and Sicamous, B.C. ; 

 at Comox, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Saskatchewan. (Bourgeau.) 

 Athabasca Eiver, N.W.T. (J. M. Macoun.) Very common on stumps 

 in swamps at London, Ont. (J. Dearness.) Sitka. (Roth. Alask.) 

 Mountains of British Columbia. (Lyall.) 



(377.) T. geniculata, Girgens. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 187 ; Canadian Musci, No. 422. 



Moose Eiver, (Lyall.) Sitka. (Rothrock.) On old logs in a 

 swamp at Revelstoke, Columbia Eiver ; also in a swamp at Craig- 



