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Stems pinnate, prostrate, sparingly radiculose. Leaves densely 

 crowded, squarrose-recurved, round-deltoid, short-acuminate, reflexed 

 on the borders of the entire base to the denticulate acumen ; alar cells 

 quadrate, pellucid, not numerous, the other short-oblong or short- 

 lanceolate ; costa obsolete or none. Capsule small, narrow-cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, annulus simple ; basilar membrane low ; lid convex, 

 obtuse and not apiculate ; pedicel reddish-brown, smooth, 2 cm. long. 

 On earth by springs at Mount Stephen, also abundant forming thin 

 mats on flat stones at Hector and on the slopes of Cathedral Mountain. 

 Rocky Mountains, alt. 5,600 feet. (Macoun.) Rocks about the Portage 

 River, in the Rocky Mountains. (Drummond.) 



(844.) H. Stellatum, Schreb. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N". America, 

 379 ; Canadian Musci, No. 330. 



-Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait. (R. Bell.) Miquelon Island. 

 (Delamare.) New Harbor, Newfoundland, and Fox Harbor, Labrador 

 (Rev. A. Waghorne.) On earth in bogs and swamps at Gunn River and 

 Becscie River, Anticosti ; on earth in a meadow. Gasp^ Co., Que. ; 

 beaver meadow, Lake Nipissing ; on boggy toil at Current River and 

 Mamainse, Lake Superior ; peaty meadow. Porcupine Mountains, Man. ; 

 in swamps at Morley and Stephen, Rocky Mountains ; in bogs near 

 Fort Assiniboine, Athabasca River ; in a limestone spring, Sieamous, 

 B.C. ; also on the mountains north of Griffin Lake, Gold Range, B.C 

 {Macoun.) Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) In swamps at London, Ont. (J. 

 Bearness.) 



Var. protensum, Bruch & Schimp. ; Canadian Musci, No. 33L 



In beaver meadows, Huntingdon, Hastings Co., Ont. ; also in swampy 

 meadows at Stephen and Morley, Rocky Mountains ; in limestone 

 springs, shore of Lake Mara, near Sieamous, B.C. (Macoun.) 



Var. subdecursivulum, Kindb. (n. var.) 



Leaves smaller, decurrent, abruptly acuminate from a short-ovate 

 base ; alar cells more numerous. Not found fruiting. 



Amongst Dlcranum scoparium on earth by springs in a swamp near 

 Brighton, Northumberland Co., Ont, October 5th, 1888. (Macoun.) 



(845.) H. poly^amum, Wils. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 879. 



H. stellatum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 184. 



Swamps; not frequent. (Drummond.) In the "Big Swamp," Murray, 

 Northumberland Co., Ont. ; on earth in the valley of the Thompson 



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