240 OEOLOGJCAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVBT OP CANADA. 



swamps near London, Ont. {J. Beamess.) Upon trunks of trees in 

 Upper Canada. (Dru7nmond.) 



(894.) H. nemorosum, Koch ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 398. 



On decayed wood at Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) 



(895.) H. flaccum, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts large and loose, brown below, pale-green above. Stems pinnate, 

 sparingly radiculose, red-brown ; branches elongate, attenuate, distant 

 and flaccid ; paiaphyllia few, multiform. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 shortly subulate-acuminate, not curved, concave-involute, patent, with 

 excavate dark-orange auricles at the base; stem-leaves decurrent, 

 slightly recurved at the basal angles ; branch-leaves loose, sub-disti- 

 chous, not decurrent nor recurved ; cells narrow, long-linear, not 

 chlorophyllose, the alar large, subquadrate, the inner basal nari*ow, 

 pale-orange ; costa short, double and indistinct or none. Barren. 



On old logs (or rocks) Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) 

 On rocks at the foot of Jones Falls, Sydenham Eiver, Owen Sound, 

 Ont. (Macoun.) 



(896.) H. subflaccum, C.M.& Kindb. (n.sp.) 

 Vylindrothecium DrummoTKiix, Canadian Musci, No. 436. 



Tufts loose, glossy green. Stem green, irregularly branching, not 

 radiculose ; branches few and long, flaccid, sub-compressed when dry ; 

 paraph3-llia none. Leaves striate, oblong-lanceolate, denticulate above 

 to ^, not curved, loosely appressed or subpatent ; the basal angles 

 hyaline, not excavate ; stem-leaves short-decurront, acute or short- 

 acuminate ; branch leaves not decurrent, longer acuminate ; cells nar- 

 row, long-linear and chlorophyllose, the basal dilated, hyaline and 

 irregular, sub-rectangular, the inner rarely pale-yellowish ; costa none. 

 Dioecious. Female plants not found. Habit of Hypnum pratense, but 

 it has entire leaves. 



On earth in the " Big Swamp," Murray, Northumberland Co., Ont. 

 October 9th, 1888. (Macoun.) 



(897.) H. pseudo-drepanium, C. M. & Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Tufts loose, green, faintly glossy. Secondary stems very long, 

 flaccid, subpinnate, sparingly radiculose, faintly compressed ; para- 

 phyllia none ; branchlets few and very short, curved at the apex. 

 Leaves plicate, entire, from a short broad-ovate base narrowed into a 



