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small or indistinct hypophysis ; length 5-*7 mm., diameter 2-2^ mm. ; 

 lid conic-acuminate, red at margin. 



This species seems to include the greater part of thfe specimens 

 formerly referred to P. formosum. On the ground at Bass Eiver, N.B. 

 {Fowler's Cat.) Canaan Forks, N.B. (J. Moser.) Woods, Montcalm 

 Co., Que. (D' Urban.) In woods, Becscie River, Anticosti ; woods, 

 ]N'orth Sydney, Cape Breton ; Mount Stewart and Brackley Point, 

 Prince Edward Island ; along the Ste. Anne de Monts River, G-asp^ 

 Co., Que.; on earth in woods at Casselman, near Ottawa; on earth 

 in woods in Peterboro and Victoria counties, Ont. ; also at North 

 Bay Lake Nipissing ; at Leamington, Lake Erie ; in woods, near Fort 

 William, Lake Superior ; on earth and i*ocks along the Columbia River, 

 above Revelstoke, B.C. {Macoun.) 



(589.) P. conorhynch m Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Differs from Polytrichum formosum in the leaves being canaliculate 

 and the capsule shorter and broader, not attenuate at the base ; differs 

 fi-om Polytrichum gracile also in the capsule, which is distinctly acute- 

 angulate, the coriic-rostrate lid and the long-sheathing leaves. 



In a small bog along the C. P. Railway in Roger's Pass east of the 

 summit, Selkirk Mountains, July Slst, 1890. {Macoun.) 



(590.) P. piliferum, Schreb.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N.America, 

 264 ; Canadian Musci, No. 222 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 278. 



Grassy Mountains. (Brummond.') Gravelly knolls, Bass River, 

 N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) Ste. Clotiide, Arthabaska Co., Que. {St. Cyr.) 

 Miquelon Island. (Delamare.) On rocks, North West Arm, Halifax, 

 N.S. ; on earth in sandy woods, Murray, Northumberland Co., Ont. ; 

 barren ground and rocks. Lake Nepigon and Lake Nipissing, Ont. ; 

 at Hector, Rocky Mountains ; on rocks at Deer Park and Sproat, 

 Columbia River ; on earth at New Westminster Junction, B.C. ; very 

 common at Victoria and Cedar Hill, also Mount Benson near Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Vancouver Island. {Lyall.) Alaska. 

 {Nelson.) Kobbefjord, West Greenland, 28th June, 1884. {Warming 

 <fc Holm.) 



Var. Hoppei, Rabenh. 



On Castle Mountain, Rocky Mountains ; alt. *7,500. {Macmn.) 



(591.) P. hyperboreum, R. Brown, Fl. Melv. Is., 69. 

 Melville Islands. {R. Brown.) Common in Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) 



