MACOUN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 39 



common at Pictou, N.S. (McKay.) Near St. John, N.B. (Hay.) 

 Abundant everywhere in New Brunswick. (Fowler's Cat.} Eiver du 

 Loup (en bas), Que. (St Cyr.} Abundant in all suitable localities from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific. It prefers roadsides, pastures, old walls, 

 and roofs of houses and dry rocky ground. Collected by every person. 

 (Macoun.} Apparently very common in Newfoundland. (Ttevr A. 

 Waghorne.} Shore of Buffalo Lake. N.W.T. (J. M. Macoun.} 

 Kotzebue Sound, Sitka and Nulato. (Roth. Alask.} Jakobshavn, 

 Greenland. (/?. Brown.} Miquelon Island. (Delaware.) Tay, York 

 Co. and Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.} A very com- 

 mon moss by roadsides at London, Ont. (J. Dearness.} 



Var. xanthopus, Sulliv. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 92. 



On earth and rocks, Johnston's Strait, Gulf of Georgia. (Dawson.} 

 Damp rocks near Cadboro Bay, Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.} 



(139.) C. conicus, (Hampe.) Lindb. ; Braithw. .British Moss- 

 Flora, 175. 



Diifers from C. purpureus in the long-excurrent costa, the capsule 

 erect and symmetric, faintly sulcate, the lid shorter, the teeth pale, 

 red at base, with fewer articulations. (Kindberg.} 



On the base of a stump, on the extensive flat at the head of the 

 ravine north of Mr. Murray's Kanche, Spence's Bridge, B.C., May 

 31st, 1889. (Macoun.} 



(140.) C- minor, Aust. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 92. 



On damp earth along the Fraser Eiver at Quesnel, B.C., 1875 ; 

 Mount Tolmie, near Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1887. (Macoun.} 



28. TRICHODON, Schimp. 



(141.) T. cylindricus, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 93 ; Canadian Musci, No. 411. 



Abundant on the borders of ditches at Hastings, B.C. ; also at 

 Craigellachie, Eagle Pass, and under the high tressle west of the 

 Columbia at Eevelstoke, B.C., 1890. {Macoun.} 



29. DISTICHIUM, Bruch A- Schimp. 



(142.) D. capillaceum, Bruch & Schimp. . Lesq. & James, Mosses 

 of N. America, 93 ; Canadian Musci, No. 57. 



Didymodon capillaceum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 122. 



D. capillaceum var. foliis brevioribus, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 123. 



Moist banks of rivers frequent, (122) ; upon " Ltmestone Bocks," 



