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the Canadian Naturalist. Canada then comprised simply 
the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The lists were 
necessarily very incomplete, as but little attention had 
been paid to the Cryptogams. Nevertheless, my collection 
of lichens then comprised 156 species, increased shortly 
afterwards to 187 species; whilst Mr. Watt’s list of mosses, 
to which Prof. Macoun was a large contributor, numbered 
211 species. Since this time, Prof. Macoun has gradually 
increased his collection, and now, with the area of the 
Dominion extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 
with the Province of British Columbia—so distinct, botani- 
cally, from the other provinces—now fairly well explored 
along the line of railway by him and others, he has been 
able to present a catalogue of 467 species of mosses, all indi- 
genous to the Dominion, and many, as among the higher 
forms of plant life, peculiar to the Rocky Mountains and 
the Pacific coast. Of these, 41 are new to science and are 
futly described in the paper by Prof. Kindberg, whilst 27 
others are new to America, and, with the localities of occur- 
rence, are given below, as interesting from a geographical 
point of view :— 
In Nova Scorta. On Rocky Mountains. 
Andrea alpestris, Schm. Barbula angustata, Wils. 
Sphagnum medium, Limp. Bryum Blindi, B. 
At GASPB OR ANTICOSTI. Mnium inclinatum, Lindl, 
Pottia intermedia, Turn, Polytrichum sexangulare, F 1. 
Webera gracilis, Schl. Orothecium intricatum, Hart. 
Bryum Archangelicum,Schm. Thudium decipiens, De N. 
B. elegans, Nees. Hypnum fastigiatum, Brid. 
Hypnum Vaucheri, Lesq. H. Goulardi, Schm. 
Bryum contextum, Hornsch, In Britis CoLuMBIA. 
In OnTArIo. Andrxa Huntii, Limp. 
Hypnum Juratyka, Schim. Barbula ruraliformis, Besch. 
H. Sommerfeltui, Myr. Bryum Doni, Grer. 
Fiasidens puscellus, Wills. B. murale, Wils. 
On Rocky Mountains. Heterocladium heteropterum, Bush. 
Dicranum congestum, Lindl. Pottia litoralis, Mut. 
Prof. Macoun is understood to be also engaged in inves- 
tigating the lichens of Canada, 
