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Stems pinnate, prostrate, sparingly radiculose. Leaves densely 

 crowded, squarrose-recurved, round-deltoid, short-acuminate, reflexed 

 on the borders of the entire base to the denticulate acumen ; alar cells 

 quadrate, pellucid, not numerous, the other short-oblong or short- 

 lanceolate ; costa obsolete or none. Capsule small, narrow-cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, annulus simple ; basilar membrane low ; lid convex, 

 obtuse and not apiculate ; pedicel reddish-brown, smooth, 2 c.m. long. 

 On earth by springs at Mount Stephen, also abundant forming thin 

 mats on flat stones at Hector and on the slopes of Cathedral Mountain. 

 Rocky Mountains, alt. 5,600 feet. (Macoun.} Rocks about the Portage 

 River, in the Rocky Mountains. (Drummond.} 



(844.) H. stellatum, Schreb. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 379 ; Canadian Musci, No. 330. 



Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait. (E. Bell.} Miquelon Island. 

 (Delaware.) New Harbor, Newfoundland, and Fox Harbor, Labrador 

 (Rev. A. Waghorne.) On earth in bogs and swamps at Gunn River and 

 Becscie River, Anticosti ; on earth in a meadow, Gasp Co., Que. ; 

 beaver meadow, Lake Nipissing ; on boggy toil at Current River and 

 Mamainse, Lake Superior ; peaty meadow, Porcupine Mountains, Man. ; 

 in swamps at Morley and Stephen, Rocky Mountains ; in bogs near 

 Fort Assiniboine, Athabasca River ; in a limestone spring, Sicamous, 

 B.C. ; also on the mountains north of Griffin Lake, Gold Range, B.C 

 (Macoun.) Greenland. (Fl. Gr.} In swamps at London, Ont. (J. 

 Dearness.) 



Yar. protensum, Bruch & Schimp. ; Canadian Musci, No. 331. 



In beaver meadows, Huntingdon, Hastings Co., Ont. ; also in swampy 

 meadows at Stephen and Morley, Rocky Mountains-; in limestone 

 springs, shore of Lake Mara, near Sicamous, B.C. (Macoun.) 



Yar. subdecursivulum, Kindb. (n. var.) 



Leaves smaller, decurrent, abruptly acuminate from a short-ovate 

 base ; alar cells more numerous. Not found fruiting. 



Amongst Dicranum scoparium on earth by springs in a swamp near 

 Brighton, Northumberland Co., Ont, October 5th, 1888. (Macoun.} 



(845.) H. polygamum, Wils. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 379. 



H. stellatum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 184. 



Swamps ; not frequent. (Drummond.} In the " Big Swamp," Murray f 

 Northumberland Co., Ont. ; on earth in the valley of the Thompson 



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