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Port Arthur and Fort William. {Mrs. E. G. Britton.) Lake Superior. 

 (Agassiz.) Pack Eiver, B.C. (Lyall.) Disco Island, Greenland. 

 IfL Gr.) In wet woods near London, Ont. (J. Deamess.) 



73. PALUDELLA, Ehrh. 



(424.) P. squarrosa, Brid. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 214 ; Canadian Musci, No. 158. 



Bryum squarrosum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 248. 



Marshes near the Rocky Mountains; rare; and about York Factory. 

 (Drummond.) Bogs, Salt Lake, Anticosti ; summit of Mount Albert, 

 Gasp^ Co., Que. ; in swamps at Stephen, Rocky Mountains ; in peat 

 bogs, Telegraph Trail, Blackwater River, B.C. (Macoun.) Mountains 

 east of Adam's Lake, B.C. ; alt. 6,500 feet. (Daicson.) Greenland. 

 (Fl. Gr.) 



XVI. BRYE.E. 

 74. MIELICHHOFERIA, Hornsch. 



(425.) M. nitida, Nees & Hornsch. Var macrocarpa, C Muell.; 



Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 215. 



Weisia macrocarpa, Dramm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 74. 

 Upon slate rocks ; among the Rocky Mountains. {Drummond,) 

 (426.) M. cuspidifera, Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Differs from j]J. nitida in the leaves being broad-ovate, suddenly 

 cuspidate, entire or slightly cronulate above, the cells a little wider 

 and the costa often percurrent. 



On damp rocks beside the torrent at Hector, Rocky Mountains, alt. 

 5,000 feet. August 11th, 1890. {Macoun.) 



75. LEPTOBRYUM, Schimp. 



(427.) L. pyriforme, Schimp. ; • Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 215 ; Canadian Musci, No. 159. 



Bryum pyriforme, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 271. 



In burnt woods ; frequent. (Drummond.) Pictou Co., N.S. (McKay.) 

 Canaan Forks and Tay, N.B. (J. Moser.) On recently burnt soil, 

 Bass River, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) Shaded ground, Tobique River, 



