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short-necked, pendent ; peristome pale-yellow, segments with a narrow 

 basal membrane, cilia short and rudimentary ; annulus narrow ; lid 

 mammillate ; pedicel about 2 cm. long ; spores brown, about 0.02 mm. 

 Dioecious. 



This species is allied to Weber a polymorpha, but is very much larger, 

 in habit resembling Webera longicolla. 



Close to the glacier on the western face of Hermit Mountain, Eoger's 

 Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; alt. 7,500 feet. August 1st, 1890. 

 (J". M. Macoun.) 



(432.) W. longicolla, Hedw.j Lesq. & James, Mosses of 1ST. 

 America, 217. 



Cascade Mountains. (Lyall.) Common in Greenland. (FL Gr) 



(433.) W. nutans, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James^ Mosses of N. America, 

 217 ; Canadian Musci, No. 160. 



Bryum nutans, Drumm. Muse. Borr-Am., No. 262. 



Dry woods ; about the roots of trees. (Drummond.) Pictou Co., 

 N.S. (McKay.) On rotten wood, Bass River, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) 

 Moist, rotten wood, Tobique River, N.B. (Ray) On rotten wood 

 Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., and Tay, York, Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) 

 Miquelon Island. (Delamare.) River du Loup (en bas.) (St. Cyr.) 

 On very rotten logs and bases of stumps across the continent. Subject 

 to many varieties. Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island j Truro, 

 N.S. ; Becscie Eiver and South West Point, Anticosti ; in woods, Gaspe* 

 Co., Que. ; in woods around Ottawa ; at Prescott, Belleville, Owen 

 Sound, and Lake Nepigon, Ont. ; Manitoba House, and Swan Lake, 

 Man. ; at Morley, Devil's Lake, Banff and Hector, Rocky Mountains ; 

 Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; Revelstoke, Sproat, Nelson, Sica- 

 mous, Griffin Lake, Donald and Cache Creek Mountain, B.C. ; near 

 Edmonton, Athabasca. (Macoun.) Vicinity of London, Ont. (J. 

 Dearness.) Swamps at Black River and Dog Head, Lake Winnipeg ; 

 Fort Simpson, B.C. ; and Ounalaska and St. Paul islands, Behring Sea, 

 1891. (J. M. Macoun.) Mountains east of Adam's Lake, B.C. ; alt. 6,600 

 feet. (Dawson) Vicinity of New Harbor, Chance Cove and Topsail, 

 Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne) Saskatchewan River. (Bourgeau.) 

 Cascade and Galton Mountains, B.C. (Lyall.) Kotzebue Sound, 

 Sitka and Iktigalik. (Roth. Alask.) Hare Island, West Coast of Green- 

 land. (John Sadler.) Smith's Sound, between lat. 78 82. (Dr. 

 Hayes.) Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



