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rent, denticulate above, forming at least half the acumen. Perichetial 

 leaves denticulate above. Capsule obovate, sub-erect or inclined 

 without a neck, not striate ; beak very short and thick ; annulus 

 scarcely loosed ; teeth orange, pale at apex, partite, without basilar 

 membrane, not papillose ; pedicel pale red-yellow 1 c. m. long or 

 shorter, straight or curved only at apex. Dioecious. 



On earth, on the northern slope of Cathedral Mountain, Kicking 

 Horse Eiver, Eocky Mountains, B.C. Alt. 6,500 feet. July 28th, 1885. 

 (Macoun.) 



(78.) D.S rufescens, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. Ame- 

 rica, 66 ; Canadian Musci, No. 2*7. 



On earth, Bass River, Kent Co., N.B. (Fowler.) Canaan Forks, 

 Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) By roadsides, on wet earth, at 

 Brackley Point and Black River, Prince Edward Island, 1888 ; in 

 cuttings along the C. P. Railway, east of Hastings, and by a brook 

 at Yale, B.C. ; common on wet earth at Owen Sound, Ont., 1874. 

 (Macoun.) 



(79.) D. subulata, Schimp.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America,. 

 66 ; Canadian Musci, No. 28. 



Dicranum subulatum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 98. 



Disco^Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) Kouchibouguac, N.B. (Fowler's Gat.) 

 Tay, York Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) On old roads along the Gasp6 

 Coast, Que., 1882 ; on earth, Salmon River, near Fort McLeod, B.C., 

 1875 ; very abundant along the C. P. Railway at Hector, Rocky 

 Mountains ; along Bear Creek in Roger's Pass, and at the Asoulcan 

 Glacier, Selkirk Mountains, B.C., 1890. (Macoun.) Banks in alpine 

 situations. (Drummond.) 



(80.) D. heteromalla, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 66 ; Canadian Musci, No. 29. 



Dicranum heteromattum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 95. 



" var. caulibus foliisque longionbus, Drumm. Muse. 



Bor.-Am. No. 96. 



Near the Columbia (No. 95) ; Upper Canada (No. 96). (Drummond.) 

 Miquelon Island. (Delamare.') Common in Nova Scotia. (McKay.) 

 On clay banks at Pirate's Cove, Yarmouth, andTruro, N.S., 1883 ; on 

 earth Rustico Bay, Prince Edward Island, 1888 ; on the summit of 

 Mount Albert, and at Gasp6 Basin, Gaspe Co., Que., 1882 ; common 



