1 62 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O? CANADA. 



477. B. spuria, (Scn^R.) ARN. 



Labrador or Newfoundland. (Waghorne fide Eckfeldt.} On 

 limestone rocks in woods at Hull, Que., April 24th, 1897. (Macoun.) 



478. B. lepidastra, TUCKERM. 



On limestone rocks west of Hull, Que., April 24th, 1897 ; on 

 boulders near the "elbow" of the South Saskatchewan River, 

 A^sa., Aug., 1879. {Macoun.) Labrador or Newfoundland. 

 ( Waghorne fide Eckfeldt^) 



479. B. parasema, (ACH.) TH. FR. 



Bark of trees and on dead wood ; common. 



Greenland. (Arct. Man.) Arctic America. (Richardson^) On 

 dead wood, Chimney Cove, Newfoundland. ( Waghorne.) On 

 bark, Rigaud Mountain, Vaudreuil Co., Que. (Rev. G. Ducharme.} 

 On bark of various trees and dead wood in many places, Cape 

 Breton Island, N. S., July, 1898 ; on bark of trees at Halifax, 

 N. S. ; at Salt Lake, Anticosti, Que.; on bark and dead wood, 

 Gaspe Co., Que.; on old rails at Port Daniels, Bay of Chaleurs, 

 Que.; abundant on fence-rails and young pines around Ottawa, 

 Ont.; on dead wood and old rails at Belleville, Hastings Co., 

 Ont.; on fence-rails near Wooler, Northumberland Co., Ont.; on 

 trees, Algonquin Park, Ont., June, 1900 ; on birch bark, Lake 

 Nipigon ; on bark of paper birch, Red Deer River, Porcupine 

 Mountains, Man ; on dead wood, Jumping Pound Creek, Rocky 

 Mountains ; on old logs near C. P. R. station at Banff, Rocky 

 Mountains. (Macoun.) Port Clarence, Alaska. (Rothrock.) 



Var. triphragmia, NYL. 



On Alnus rubra, by the sea at Comox, and on Sea's farm near 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island, June 2Oth, 1893. (Macoun.) 



480. B. papillata, (SOMMERF.) TUCKERM. 



Upon dead mosses, etc., in alpine and arctic regions. 



Greenland. (Vahl.) On moss in woods at Banff ; and on moss 

 along Jumping Pound Creek, Rocky Mountains, June, 1897. 

 (Macoun.) 



Var. albo-cincta, TH. FR. 

 Islands of Behring Strait. (Wright.) 



