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rent, denticulate above, forming at least half the acnmen. Perichetial 

 leaves denticulate above. Capsule obovate, sub-erect or inclined 

 ■without a neck, not striate ; beak very short and thick ; annulas 

 scarcely loosed ; teeth orange, pale at apex, partite, without basilar 

 membrane, not papillose ; pedicel pale led-yellow 1 c. m. long or 

 shorter, straight or cui-ved only at apex. Dioecious. 



On earth, on the northei-n slope of Cathedral Mountain, Kicking 

 Hoi-se Eiver, Eocky IMountains, B.C. Alt. 6,500 feet. July 28th, 1 885. 

 (Jdacoun.') 



(78.) D.I rufescens, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. Ame- 

 rica, 66 ; Canadian Musci, No. 2Y. 



On earth, Bass Eiver, Kent Co., N.B. {Fowler.') Canaan Forks, 

 Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) By roadsides, on wet earth, at 

 Brackley Point and Black Eiver, Prince Edward Island, 1888 ; in 

 cuttings along the C. P. Eailway, east of Hastings, and by a brook 

 at Tale, B.C. ; common on wet earth at Owen Sound, Ont., 1874. 

 (^Macoun.) 



(79.) D. subulata, Schimp.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 66 ; Canadian Musci, No. 28. 



Dxcranum subidatum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 98. 



Disco, Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) Kouchibouguac, N.B. {Fowler's Cat.) 

 Tay, York Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) On old roads along the Gasp^ 

 Coast, Que., 1882; on earth, -Salmon Eiver, near Fort McLeod, B.C., 

 1875 ; very abundant alone the C. P. Eailway at Hector, Eocky 

 Mountains ; along Bear Creek in Eoger's Pass, and at the Asoulcan 

 Glacier, Selkirk Mountains, B.C., 1890. {Macoun.) Banks in alpine 

 situations. {Drummond.) 



(80.) D. heteromalla, Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 66 ; Canadian Musci, No. 29. 



Dicranum heteromaUum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am. No. 95. 



" var. cavUbus foliisque longiorihus, Brumm. Muse. 



Bor.-Am. No. 96. 



Near the Columbia (No. 95) ; Upper Canada (No. 96). {Di-ummond.) 

 Miquelon Island. (Beldmare.) Common in Nova Scotia. {McKay.) 

 On clay banks at Pirate's Cove, Yarmouth, and Truro, N.S., 1883 ; on 

 earth Eustico Bay, Prince Edward Island, 1888 ; on the summit of 

 Mount Albert, and at Gasp^ Basin, Gasp4 Co., Que., 1882 ; common 



