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756. WOODSIA, R. Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xi., 

 I7O. (WOODSIA.) 



(3022.) W. glabella, R Br., App. Prankl. Journ. 754. Hook., Fl. 

 Bor.-Am., ii., 259. Lawson, Can. Nat., i., 289. Watt, Can. Nat, 

 iv., 363. Goode, Can. Nat., ix., 298. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. 

 Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 217 Burgess, Trans. Koy. Soc. Can., 

 iv., sect, iv., 17. 



W. cdpina, var. glabella, Eaton, Can. Nat., ii., 89. 



A very delicate little species found in tufts on moist, shaded rocks. 

 It has a wide range, extending from New Brunswick westward to the 

 Eocky Mountains, and northward to the Arctic Circle, but is rare and 

 local. Kestigouche Eiver, N.B. (J. Brittain.) Grand Falls, N.B. 

 (Jack.} Limestone rocks, twelve miles up Jupiter River, and under 

 cliff's at Ellis Bay, Anticosti, Que. ; frequent in crevices of rocks along 

 the Gasp6 coast, Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, and Riviere du] Loup, 

 Que. ; ledges of rock, Kakabeka Falls, Kaministiqtiia River, Red Rock, 

 near the C. P. Ry. station, and on trap rocks up the Nepigon River, 

 Lake Superior, Ont. ; limestone rocks, Pine Portage, Clear water 

 River, below Methy Portage, N. W. Ter., Lat 57, and Bow River 

 Pass, Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) Saguenay River and Montmorenci 

 Falls, Que. (Watt.) Isle of Orleans, Que. (St. Cyr.) Great Bear 

 Lake (the original station) N. W. Ter. (Richardson.) On rocks 

 along the Arctic coast, from Mackenzie River to Baffin Bay. (Hook., 

 Arct. PI) 



(3023.) W. hyperborea, R. Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. xi., 173. Hook., 

 Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 259. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 46. Provancher, 

 Fl. Can., 720. Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 363. Macoun & Burgess, 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 218. 



W. alpina, S. F. Gray, Nat. Arang. Brit. PI., ii., 17. Lawson, Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Ed., viii., 108, and Can. Nat, i., 289. 



This plant is closely allied to W. glabella, and, like it, is found on 

 moist, mossy rocks. It occurs very locally from New Brunswick to 

 the Saskatchewan, and northward to the Arctic Circle. " The Tunnel." 

 Restigouche, N.B. (Fowler.} Aroostook Falls, Victoria Co., N.B. 

 (Hay, Wetmore.) Dartmouth River, Gaspe*, Que., twenty miles 

 from its mouth. (J. Bell.) Perpendicular faces of cliffs near Cape 

 Rosier, Gasp ; on rocks twenty miles up the Ste. Anne des Monts 

 River, and at the falls of the same river at the base of Mount 



