MACOUN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 77 



(295.) R. canescens, Brid. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N.America, 

 151 ; Canadian Musci, No. 103. 



Grimmia canescens, Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. VIII., 21. 



Miquelon Island. (Delamare.) Digge's Island, Hudson Strait.- (Jl. 

 Bell.) On sand a few miles up St. Anne des Monts River, Gasp Co., 

 Que. ; on rocks, north shore of Lake Superior ; and at Point aux Pins, 

 near Sault Ste. Marie ; limestone rocks at Hector and Mount Aylmer, 

 Rocky Mountains ; on rocks, Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; com- 

 mon on rocks and sand at Revel stoke, and on rocks, Pass Creek, at 

 Sproat, Columbia River, B.C. (Macoun.) Vancouver Island. (Lyall.) 

 Ounalaska Island, Behring Sea. 1891. (J. M. Macoun.) Godhavn, 

 Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) Chance Cove, Newfoundland. (Rev. A. 

 Waghorne.) 



Var. ericoides, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 151 ; Canadian Musci, No. 417. 



On rocks and silt, Asulcan Glacier, Selkirk Mountains ; on rocks, 

 North Arm, and at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C. (Macoun.) Sitka. 

 (Roth. Alask.) On rocks in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. (A. Law.) 



Var. lutescens, Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 151. 

 On rocks at Moody ville, Burrard Inlet, B.C., 1889. (Macoun.) 

 Var. muticum, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XVII., 272. 



Leaves without a hair-point ; cells yellow ; costa percurrent. Barren. 

 ' On rocks, summit of Gold Range, north of Griffin Lake, B.C. ; alt. 

 7,000 feet. August 8th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(296.) R. micropus, Kindb. 



P. breiipes, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot Club, XVII., 272. 



Habit of R. heterostichum or R. canescens. Plants dirty green ; 

 branches nodose with numerous short branchlets. Leaves very faintly 

 papillose, ovate lanceolate, long-acuminate, more or less revolute, hair- 

 point long and rough ; cells yellow, the upper short or elongate, the 

 alar distinctly quadrate. Capsule small oblong-cylindrical with a short 

 oblique beak; pedicel short, 0.5 cm. long. Peristome not examined. 



On sloping garnetiferous rocks near the summit of the Gold Range, 

 north of Griffin Lake, B.C. Alt. 6,700 feet. August 8th, 1889 ; also 

 on rocks three miles below Hector, Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 



