112 GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVET OF CANADA. 



short-necked, pendent ; peristome pale-yellow, segments with a narrow 

 basal membrane, cilia short and rudimentary ; annulus narrow ; lid 

 mammillate; pedicel about 2 cm. long ; spores brown, about 0.02 mm. 

 Dioecious. 



This species is allied to Webera polymorpha, but is very much larger^ 

 in habit resembling Webera longicolla. 



Close to the glacier on the western face of Hermit Mountain, Eoger's- 

 Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; alt. 7,500 feet. August 1st, 1890. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) 



(432.) W. longicolla, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N.. 

 America, 217. 



Cascade Mountains. (Lyall.') Common in Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) 



(433.) W. nutans, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N". America,. 

 217 ; Canadian Musci, No. 160. 



Bryum nutans, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 262. 



Dry woods ; about the roots of trees. (Drummond.') Pictou Co.,. 

 N.S. {McKay.) On rotten wood, Bass Eiver, N.B. (Foivler's Cat.} 

 Moist, rotten wood, Tobique Eiver, N.B. (Say.) On rotten wood 

 Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., and Tay, York, Co., IST.B. (J. Moser.) 

 Miquelon Island. (Belamare.) Eiver du Loup {en bas.) (St. Oyr.} 

 On very rotten logs and bases of stumps across the continent. Subject 

 to many varieties. Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island ; Truro, 

 N.S. ; Becscie Eiver and South West Point, Anticosti ; in woods, Gasp^ 

 Co., Que. ; in woods around Ottawa ; at Prescott, Belleville, Owen 

 Sound, and Lake Nepigon, Ont. ; Manitoba House, and Swan Lake, 

 Man. ; at Morley, Devil's Lake, Banff and Hector, Eocky Mountains ; 

 Eoger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; Eevelstoke, Sproat, Nelson, Sica- 

 mous, GrifiSn Lake, Donald and CSche Creek Mountain, B.C. ; near 

 Edmonton, Athabasca. (Macoun.^ Vicinity of London, Ont. (J. 

 Dearness.) Swamps at Black Eiver and Dog Head, Lake Winnipeg ; 

 Fort Simpson, B.C. ; and Ounalaska and St. Paul islands, Behring Sea, 

 1891. {J. M. Macoun.) Mountains east of Adam's Lake, B.C. ; alt. 6,600- 

 feet. (Dawson.) Vicinity of New Harbor, Chance Cove and Topsail, 

 Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) Saskatchewan Eiver. (Bourgeau.) 

 Cascade and Galton Mountains, B.C. (Lyall.) Kotzebue Sound, 

 Sitka and Iktigalik. (Roth. Alask.) Hare Island , West Coast of Green- 

 land. (John Sadler.) Smith's Sound, between lat. 78°— 82°. (Dr. 

 Hayes.) Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



