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St. George Island, Behring Sea, 1891. (J. M. Macoun) Canada. 

 (Macoun fide Austin.) 



(772.) E. piliferum, (Schreb.) Bnich & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum piliferum, Schreb. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N, America, 353. 

 Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) 



(773.) E. Boscii, (Schwaegr.) 



Hypnum Boscii, Schwaegr, ; Lesq, & James, Mosses of N. America, 352. 

 H. illecebrum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 192. 



On the ground in (Ontario) Upper Canada. (Drummond.) Doubtful. 



(774.) E. Dawsoni, Kindb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVII., 278. 



Stems pinnate, not or rarely radiculose ; branchlets patent. Leaves 

 green or brownish, not glossy, not, or indistinctly, papillose, not long- 

 acuminate from the broad, ovate base, recurved on the borders below, 

 long-decurrent, open-erect, denticulate all around ; areolation variable, 

 often sub-rhomboidal ; costa thick, reaching nearly to the apex. 

 Probably dioecious. Allied to E. hians and E. Sullivantii. 



On rocks along the Nanaimo Eiver, below the railway bridge, 

 Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, April 26th, 1887; on stones in a ditch, 

 west side of Black's hotel, Hastings, B.C., 1889. (Macoun.) 



(775.) E. praelongum, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 

 Tay, York Co., KB. (J. Moser.) 



(776.) E. Sullivantii, (Spruce.) Lesq. & James. 



Hypnum Sullivantii, Spruce, MS. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 353 ; Canadian Musci, No. 296. 



On rocks at Truro, KS. (Fowler's Cat.) On rocks at Canaan 

 Forks, Queen's Co., KB. (J. Moser.) On rocks at Hull, Que. ; abun- 

 dant on limestone rocks, Eoyston Park, near Owen Sound, Ont. 

 (Macoun.) 



(777.) E. hians, (Hedw.) Lesq. & James. 



Hypnum hians, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 354 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 442, in part. 



Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., KB. (J. Moser.) On earth at Pirate's 

 Cove, Strait of Canso, N.S. ; on earth in McKay's woods, near the lake, 

 Ottawa ; on old logs and damp rocks at Hastings, B.C. (Macoun.) 



