WACOUN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 21*7 



(816.) A. Sprucei, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum Sprucei, Bruch & Schimp Ms. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 



AmQrica, 372 ; Canadian Musci, No. 315. 

 H. confervoides, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 190. 



Shady banks among the Rocky Mountains. (Drummond.} On 

 earth, Mount Albert, Gasp Co., Que. ; on trees in Dow's swamp near 

 Ottawa ; on old stumps in Brighton, Ont. ; on old stumps at Hudson 

 Hope, Peace River, lat. 56 ; on bases of stumps and on earth under 

 rocks at Hector, and on old stumps, Lake Louise, Rocky Mountains ; 

 on earth in woods at Revelstoke, Columbia River, B.C. ; on stumps at 

 Lytton, B.C. ; and on stumps at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island ; on 

 stumps near Lesser Slave Lake, N.W.T. (Macoun.) Greenland. 

 (Fl. Gr.-) 



(817.) A. speirophyllum, Kindb. Ott. Nat. IV., 64. 



Plants loosely csespitose, dark-green. Stem capillary, irregularly 

 ramulose, not or sparingly radiculose. Leaves small, long-distant, 

 spreading, subcordate or oval-oblong, blunt or sub-acute, entire or 

 denticulate ; cells short ; costa sub-percurrent, broad, sometimes very 

 distinct. Barren. Probably dioecious. Habit of Amblystegium Sprucei. 



On rocks at Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B., November, 1889. (J. 

 Moser.} 



(818.) A. fenestratum, Kindb. 



A. tenuifolium, Kindb. Ott. Nat. IV., 65. 



Plants loosely coherent, green ; stems capillary, irregularly ramu- 

 lose. Leaves small, spreading, very narrow, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 denticulate ; cells dilated but elongate ; costa more or less distinct. 

 Barren. Habit of Amblystegium Sprucei. 



On the borders of a pond near London, Ont, June, 1889. (/. 

 Dearness.^) 



(819.) A. subtile, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum subtile, Hoffm. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 372 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 316 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 227. 



On the roots of trees in Upper Canada (Ontario) ; at Holland Land- 

 ing, &c. (Drummond.) On the bases of trees in McKay's woods and 

 Dow's swamp, Ottawa ; very abundant also on trees at Owen Sound, 

 Ont. (Macoun.) 



