162 GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Var. amblyclada, Kindb. (n. var.); Canadian Musci, No. 567. 

 Neckera oligocarpa, Canadian Musci, No. 240, in part. 



Differs in the densely pinnate stems, the branches obtuse, rarely 

 attenuate and flagelliferous, the leaves shorter, sub-oblong. It agrees 

 with the common form in the paraphylliferous stem, &c. Barren. 



On rocks beside the torrent at Hector, Eocky Mountains, B.C., July 

 15th, 1885. (Macoun.) 



(615.) N. pennata, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 



282 ; Canadian Musci, No. 239 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 161. 



Trunks of trees, abundant ; rarely on rocks. (Drummond.) Com- 

 mon, Pictou Co., N.S. (McKay.) On trees ; common, N.B. (Fowler's 

 Cat.) Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., Tay, York Co. and Elmwood, 

 King's Co., N.B. (<7. Moser.) Trunks of trees, River Rouge, Argenteuil 

 Co., Que. (D 1 Urban.) On trees, Whycocogmah, Cape Breton ; com- 

 mon on trees Prince Edward Island ; also on trees at Campbellton, 

 N.B. ; in woods, Gasp4 Co., Que. ; abundant in elm and black ash 

 swamps at Ottawa, Belleville, Leamington, Port Dover, Owen Sound 

 and Niagara, Ont. ; on trees, Nepigon River, Ont. ; on trees along 

 Lake Winnipegoosis, Man. (Macoun.) Common on bark of trees, 

 London, Ont. (<7. Dearness.) 



(616.) N. Oligocarpa, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of 

 N. America, 283 ; Canadian Musci, No. 240, in part. 



On trees at Rustico Bay, Prince Edward Island ; on trees at Ottawa, 

 Ont. ; on rocks at Nepigon, Lake Superior, June 24th, 1884 ; and on 

 rocks, Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mountains; underneath overhang- 

 ing rocks, Rocky Mountain Canon, Peace River, lat. 56. (Macoun.) 



* N. peterantha, C. M. & Kindb. (n. subsp.) 



Differs in the secondary stems being nearly simple, about 1 decim. 

 long, rigid and more robust, the antheridia and archegonia very 

 numerous, the capsule emergent, the leaves larger, and more crowded, 

 the one branch of the costa prolonged, sometimes to the middle. 



Common on rock^ in the Kicking Horse Pass, three miles below 

 Hector. Rocky Mountains, August 13th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(617.) N. Douglasii, Hook.; Lesq, & James, Mosses of N. America, 



283 ; Canadian Musci, No. 241. 



North-west Coast. (Menzies.) Alaska. (Roth. AlasJc.) 



