MACOUN.] CATALOGUE OP CANADIAN PLANTS. 185 



(696.) T. lignicola, Kindb. Ott. Nat. IV. p. 



Monoecious. Tufts yellowish or bright green. Stems simply pinnate 

 with few rhizoids and short, scarcely ramose paraphyllia ; branches 

 close, distichous, attenuate, flexuous or slightly recurved. Stem-leaves 

 from the broad, cordate base attenuate to a long, often curved, point, 

 faintly striate, reflexed on the borders ; branch-leaves shorter, 

 acuminate ; all denticulate from the middle upward and papillose at 

 the back or on both sides ; cells obscure and rounded ; costa vanishing 

 in or below the apex, Capsule cylindrical, arcuate and light brown ; 

 teeth pale ; cilia long, perfect ; annulus double ; lid conical, short- 

 apiculate. Differs from T. Blandoioii in the shorter areolation of the 

 leaf-cells, the smaller capsule, the shorter paraphyllia and the generally 

 shorter, 1 cm. long, pedicel. 



On rotten logs at Port Dover, Ont. ; on rotten logs along the 

 base of the Porcupine Mountain, Man.; on old logs at Quesnel, B.C. 

 (Macoun.) 



(697.) T. recognitum, (Hedw.) Lindb. ; Canadian Musci, No. 271. 



Hypnum recognitum, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 325. 

 H. proliferum var. compactum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 214. 



Abundant in shady woods. (Drummond.) On rotten wood, Broad 

 Cove, Labrador. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) On earth at the bases of trees 

 in woods, Bass Eiver, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) At Truro, N.S. ; wet 

 woods, Brackley Point and Tignish, Prince Edward Island ; damp 

 woods near Ottawa ; also in woods at Belleville and Owen Sound, 

 Ont. ; damp woods near Donald, Columbia Valley ; at Eevelstoke and 

 on earth at Pass Creek, near Sproat, Columbia Eiver ; on earth at 

 Sicamous and abundant at Quesnel, B.C., and west of the Fraser Eiver 

 at that point. (Macoun.) Common at London, Ont. (J. Dearness.) 

 Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



(698.) T. delicatulum, (Linn.) Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. XII. 578 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 272. 



Hypnum delicatulum, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 325. 

 H. proliferum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 213. 



Shady woods ; but not common. (Drummond.) Miquelon Island. 

 (Delaware.) Broad Cove, Newfoundland ; Little Bay Islands, Labra- 

 dor. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) Pictou Co., N.S. (McKay.) On the ground 

 at Bass Eiver, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) On earth in swamps at Canaan 

 Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) In Dow's swamp near Ottawa ; 

 quite common in cedar swamps at Belleville, Ont. ; in a swamp at 



