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756. WOODSIA, R. Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xi., 

 I70. (WOODSIA.) 



(3022.) W. glabella, E. Br., App. Prankl. Journ. '754. Hook., Fl. 

 Bor.-Am., li., 259. Lawson, Can. Nat., i., 289. Watt, Can. Nat, 

 iv., 363. Goode, Can. Nat, ix., 298. Macoun & Burgess, Trans. 

 Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 21'? Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., 

 iv., sect, iv., lY. 



W. alpina, var. glabella, Eaton, Can. Nat., ii., 89. 



A very delicate little species found in tufts on moist, shaded rocks. 

 It has a wide range, extending from New Brunswick westward to the 

 Eocky Mountains, and northward to the Arctic Circle, but is rare and 

 local. Eestigouche Eiver, N.B. (J. Brittaw.) Grand Palls, N.B. 

 (Jack.) Limestone rocks, twelve miles up Jupiter Eiver, and under 

 cliffs at Ellis Bay, Anticosti, Que. ; frequent in crevices of rocks along 

 the Gasp^ coast, Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, and Eivi^re du] Loup, 

 Que. ; ledges of rock, Kakabeka Palls, Kaministiquia Eiver, Eed Eock, 

 near the C. P. Ey. station, and on trap rocks up the Nepigon Eiver, 

 Lake Superior, Ont. ; limestone rocks. Pine Portage, Clearwater 

 Eiver, below Methy Portage, JT. W. Ter., Lat b1°, and Bow Eiver 

 Pass, Eocky Mountains. (Macoun.) Saguenay Eiver and Montmorenci 

 Falls, Que. (Watt.) Isle of Orleans, Que. (St. Cyr.) Great Bear 

 Lake (the original station) N. W. Ter. (Richardson.) On rocks 

 along the Arctic coast, from Mackenzie Eiver to Baffin Bay. (Soak., 

 Arct. Fl.) 



(3023.) W. hyperborea, E. Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. xi., 173. Hook., 

 Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 259. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 46. Provancher, 

 Fl. Can., 120. "Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 363. Macoun & Burgess, 

 Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 218. 



W. alpina, S. F. Gray, Nat. Arang. Brit. PI., ii., 17. Lawson, Trans. 

 Bot Soc. Ed., viii., 108, and Can. Nat., i., 289. 



This plant is closely allied to W. glabella, and, like it, is found on 

 moist, mossy rocks. It occurs very locally from New Brunswick to 

 the Saskatchewan, and northward to the Arctic Circle. " The Tunnel." 

 Eestigouche, N.B. (Fowler.) Aroostook Falls, Victoria Co., N.B. 

 {Hay, Wetmore.) Dartmouth Eiver, Gasp^, Que., twenty miles 

 from its mouth. (J. Bell.) Perpendicular faces of cliffs near Cape 

 Eosier, Gasp6 ; on rocks twenty miles up the Stk Anne des Monts 

 Eiver, and at the falls of the same river at the base of Mount 



