166 GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF CANADA. 



branches at the base, disappearing below the apex ; perigonial leaves 

 elongate. Dioecious. Female plants unknown. 



Amongst Eacomitrium varmm (Can. Muse. No. 100) on rocks on the 

 left bank of the Nanaimo Kiver below the railway bridge, Vancou- 

 ver Island, April 26th, 188*7. (Macoun.) 



(628.) A. Californica, Sulliv. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of IS. 

 America, 291 . Canadian Musci, No. 246. 



On rocks at Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia Kiver ; on 

 rocks at Yale ; on trees at the mouth of Harrison Kiver and rocks 

 at Agassiz, Fraser Valley, B.C. ; on trees near Victoria and at Comox, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.") Alaska. (Roth. Alask.) 



XXII. HOOKERIE^. 



101. PTERYCOPHYLLUM, Brid. 



(629.) P. lucens, Brid. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 



293 ; Canadian Musci, No. 24*7. 



In water pools and borders of marshes in the springtime, along the 

 Columbia Kiver, above Kevelstoke, also by pools in woods at 

 Hastings, B.C. ; wet places in woods around Comox, Vancouver Island. 

 (Macoun.} 



XXIII. FABRONJEJE. 

 102. FABRONIA, Raddi. 



(630.) F. pusilla, Kaddi. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 



294 ; Canadian Musci, No. 508. 



Crevices of steep rocks over which water trickles in spring at Deer 

 Park, Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia Kiver, B.C., June 8th, 1890. 

 (Macoun.) 



XXIV. LBSKBEJE. 

 103. THELIA, Sulliv. 



(631.) T. compacta, Kindb., Ott. Nat. Vol. IV. 62. 

 T. hirtetta, Canadian Musci, No. 248. 



Stems closely creeping. Tufts green, very dense and thick. 

 Branches erect, terete, obtuse and unilateral. Paraphyllia none. 

 Leaves cochleariform, rotundate-obtuse and short-apiculate, very 



