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P.E.I., 1888 ; in woods, McNab's Island, Halifax Harbor, N.S., 1883 ; 

 Fox River, Gaspe Co., Que., 1882 ; Jupiter River, Anticosti ; thick 

 woods at Wooler, Ont., 1888 ; and on logs in woods near Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, 1875. (Macoun.} Sitka. {Roth. Alask.} 



(99.) D. scoparium, Hedw. ; Lesq.& James. Mosses of N.America, 

 73 ; Canadian Musci, No. 42 j Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 80. 



Very common on earth and logs throughout Canada. Common 

 throughout the country. (Drummond.} Woods near St. Johns, Newfound- 

 land. (Rev. A. Waghorne.} Common in N. B. Different forms or varie- 

 ties occur. (Fowler's Cat.) Tay, York Co., and Cangan Forks, Queen's 

 Co., N.B. (J. Moser.} Miquelon Island. (Delaware.') Kotzebue 

 Sound and Alaska. (Roth. Alask.} Baffin's Bay. (Ross. Voy.} Smith's 

 Sound. (Dr. Kane.'} Greenland. (Fl. Gr.} Roots of trees Lancaster 

 Beach and Tobique River, N.B. (Hay.} Nain, coast of Labrador, 1885. 

 (R. Bell.} Common in Nova Scotia. (McKay.} Riviere du Loup (en 

 bos') Que. (St. Cyr.} Rustico Bay and Brackley Point, P.E.I. ; 

 Pirate's Cove, Straits of Canso, N.S. ; Jupiter River, Anticosti ; 

 Mount Albert and Fox River, Gaspe Co., Que. ; Ottawa, Carleton 

 Place, North Bay, Lake Nipissing, Belleville, Wooler, Owen Sound, 

 shore of Lake Nepigon, Ont. ; also Cedar Hill near Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.} Common at London, and Point Edward, 

 Ont. (J. Dearness.} 



Var. scopariiforme, Kindb., Bull. Ton-. Bot. Club, Vol. XVI., 

 92 ; Canadian Musci, No. 43. 



Intermediate between D. scoparium, Hedw. and D.fuscescens Turn. 

 Dioecious. Leaves greenish-yellow, flexuous, lanceolate, subulate with 

 a short and flat subula ; margin nearly flat or slightly incurved, 

 densely and sharply serrate to one-third ; cell-walls rarely interrupted 

 by pores ; upper cells oblong-oval, lower not much narrower, inner basal 

 light brown ; costa thick, percurrent, with two serrate ridges at the 

 back in the upper part. Capsule curved, not striate ; pedicel red, short. 



On earth and logs in woods. Bass River, Kent Co., N.B. (Prof. 

 Fowler.) The dark colored form at Canaan Forks, N.B. (J. Moser.) 

 A dark colored form (nigrescens, Kindb.) at Rustico Bay, P.E.I. ; 

 Pirate's Cove, Straits of Canso, N.S. ; McKay's woods, Ottawa ; abun- 

 dant near Wooler, and at Belleville, Ont. ; west of Edmonton, and 

 along Buffalo Lake north of Isle a la Crosse, N.W.T., 1875; in woods at 

 Revelstoke, B.C., 1890. (Macoun.} Roots of trees Island Lake, 

 Argenteuil Co., Que. (D' Urban.} Bottom of canon below Elk River 

 Bridge, Rocky Mountains. (Dr. Dawson.) 



