154 GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF CANADA. 



small or indistinct hypophysis ; length 5-7 mm., diameter 2-2J mm. ; 

 lid conic-acuminate, red at margin. 



This species seems to include the greater part of the specimens 

 formerly referred to P. formosum. On the ground at Bass River, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) Canaan Forks, N.B. (J. Moser.) Woods, Montcalm 

 Co., Que. (D' Urban.) In woods, Becscie River, Anticosti ; woods, 

 North Sydney, Cape Breton ; Mount Stewart and Brackley Point, 

 Prince Edward Island ; along the Ste. Anne de Monts River, Gaspe" 

 Co., Que.; on earth in woods at Casselman, near Ottawa; on earth 

 in woods in Peterboro and Victoria counties, Ont. ; also at North 

 Bay Lake Nipissing ; at Leamington, Lake Erie ; in woods, near Fort 

 William, Lake Superior ; on earth and rocks along the Columbia River, 

 above Revelstoke, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(589.) P. conorhynch m Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Differs from PolytricJium formosum in the leaves being canaliculate 

 and the capsule shorter and broader, not attenuate at the base ; differs 

 from PolytricJium gracile also in the capsule, which is distinctly acute- 

 angulate, the conic-rostrate lid and the long-sheathing leaves. 



In a small bog along the C. P. Railway in Roger's Pass east of the 

 summit, Selkirk Mountains, July 31st, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(590.) P. piliferum, Schreb.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N.America, 

 264 ; Canadian Musci, No. 222 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am.,No. 278. 



Grassy Mountains. (Drummond.) Gravelly knolls, Bass River, 

 N.B. (Fowler's Gat.) Ste. Clotilde, Arthabaska Co., Que. (St. Gyr.) 

 Miquelon Island. (Delamare.) On rocks, North West Arm, Halifax, 

 N.S. ; on earth in sandy woods, Murray, Northumberland Co., Ont. ; 

 barren ground and rocks, Lake Nepigon and Lake Nipissing, Ont. ; 

 at Hector, Rocky Mountains ; on rocks at Deer Park and Sproat, 

 Columbia River ; on earth at New Westminster Junction, B.C. ; very 

 common at Victoria and Cedar Hill, also Mount Benson near Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Vancouver Island. (Lyall.) Alaska. 

 (Nelson.) Kobbefjord, West Greenland, 28th June, 1884. (Warming 

 & Holm.) 



Var. Hop pel, Rabenh. 



On Castle Mountain, Rocky Mountains ; alt. 7,500. (Macoun.) 



(591.) P. hyperboreum, R. Brown, Fl. Melv. Is., 69. 

 Melville Islands. (R. Brown.) Common in Greenland. (Fl. G-r.) 



