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(295.) R. canescens, Brid. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 151 ; Canadian Musci, No. 103. 



Orimmia canescens, Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soo. VIII. , 21. 



Miquelon Island. (Belhmare.) Digge's Island, Hudson Slrait. {R. 

 Bell.) On sand a few miles up St. Anne des Monts Eiver, Gaspd Co., 

 Que. ; on rocks, north shore of Lake Superior ; and at Point aux Pins, 

 near Sault Ste. Marie ; limestone rocks at Hector and Mount Aylmer, 

 Eocky Mountains ; on rocks, Eoger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; com- 

 mon on rocks and sand at Eeveistoke, and on rocks. Pass Creek, at 

 Sproat, Columbia Eiver, B.C. {Macoun.) Vancouver Island. (Lyall.) 

 Ounalaska Island, Behring Sea. 1891. (J. M. Macoun.) Godhavn, 

 Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) Chance Cove, Newfoundland. {Rev. A. 

 Waghorne.) 



Var. ericoides, Bruch & Schimp. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 151 ; Canadian Musci, No. 417. 



On rocks and silt, Asulcan Glacier, Selkirk Mountains ; on rocks, 

 North Arm, and at Hastings, Burrard Inlet, B.C. (Macoun.) Sitka. 

 {Roth. Alask.) On rocks in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. {A. Law.) 



Var. lutescens, Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 151. 



On rocks at Moody ville, Burrard Inlet, B.C., 1889. {Macoun.) 



Var. muticum, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XVII., 272. 



Leaves without a hair-point ; cells yellow; costa percurrent. Barren. 

 On rooks, summit of Gold Eange, north of Griffin Lake, B.C. ; alt. 

 7,000 feet. August 8th, 1889. {Macoun.) 



(296.) R. micropus, Kindb. 



R. brevipes, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVII., 272. 



Habit of B. heterostichum or E. canescens. Plants dirty green ; 

 branches nodose with numerous phort branchlets. Leaves very faintly 

 papillose, ovate lanceolate, long-acuminate, more or less rcvolute, hair- 

 point long and rough ; cells yellow, the upper short or elongate, the 

 alar distinctly quadrate. Capsule small oblong-cylindrical with a short 

 oblique beak; pedicel short, 0.5 cm. long. Peristome not examined. 



On sloping garnetiferous rocks near the summit of the Gold Eange, 

 north of Griffin Lake, B.C. Alt. 6,700 feet. August 8th, 1889 ; also 

 on rocks three miles below Hector, Eocky Mountains. {Macoun.) 



