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P.E.I., 1888 ; in woods, McNab's Island, Halifax Harbor, N.S., 1883 ; 

 Pox Eiver,_ Gasp^ Co., Que., 1882 ; Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; thick 

 woods at Wooler, Ont., 1888 ; and on logs in woods near Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, IBTS. (Macoun.) Sitka. (Both. Alask.) 



(99.) D. scoparium, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N.America, 

 Y3 ; Canadian Musci, No. 42 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 80. 



Very common on earth and logs throughout Canada. Common 

 throughout the country. (Drummond.) Woods near St. Johns, Newfound- 

 land. (iJey. A. Waghorne.) Common in N. B. DijBferent forms or varie- 

 ties occur. (Fowler's Gat.) Tay, York Co., and Canaan Forks, Queen's 

 Co., N.B. {J. Moser.) Miquelon Island. (Belamare.) Kotzebae 

 Sound and Alaska. {Both. Alask.) Baffin's Bay. (^Boss. Voy.) Smith's 

 Sound. (Br. Kane.) Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) Boots of trees Lancaster 

 Beach and Tobique Eiver, N.B. (Hay.) Nain, coast of Labrador, 1885. 

 (jB. Bell.) Common in Nova Scotia. (McKay.) Eiviere du Loup (en 

 has) Que. (St. Gyr.) Eustico Bay and Brackley Point, P.B.I. ; 

 Pirate's Cove, Straits of Canso, N.S. ; Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; 

 Mount Albert and Fox Eiver, Gasp6 Co., Que. ; Ottawa, Carleton 

 Place, North Bay, Lake Nipissing, Belleville, Wooler, Owen Sound, 

 shore of Lake Nepigon, Ont. ; also Cedar Hill- near Victoria, Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.) Common at London, and Point Edward, 

 Ont. (J. Beamess.) 



Var. scopariiforme, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. XVI., 

 92 ; Canadian Musci, No. 43. 



Intermediate between -D. scopan'ttm, Hedw. and D.fuscescens Turn. 

 Dioecious. Leaves greenish-yellow, flexuous, lanceolate, subulate with 

 a short and flat subula ; margin nearly flat or slightly incurved, 

 densely and sharply serrate to one-third ; cell-walls rarely interrupted 

 by pores ; upper cells oblong-oval, lower not much narrower, inner basal 

 light brown ; costa thick, percurrent, with two serrate ridges at the 

 back in the upper part. Capsule curved, not striate ; pedicel red, short. 



On earth and logs in woods. Bass Eiver, Kent Co., N.B. (Prof. 

 Fowler.) The dark colored form at Canaan Porks, N.B. (J. Moser.) 

 A dark colored form (nigrescens, Kindb.) at Eustico Bay, P.E.I. ; 

 Pirate's Cove, Straits of Canso, N.S. ; McKay's woods, Ottawa ; abun- 

 dant near Wooler, and at Belleville, Ont. ; west of Edmonton, and 

 along Buffalo Lake north of Isle a la Ci'osse, N.W.T., 18Y5 ; in woods at 

 Eevelstoke, B.C., 1890. (Macoun.) Eoots of trees Island Lake, 

 Argenteuil Co., Que. (B' Urban.) Bottom of canon below Elk Eiver 

 Bridge, Eocky Mountains. (Br. Bawson.) 



