128 GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTOET SURVEY OP CANADA. 



Vai". lanatum, Bruch & Schimp. 



Common on earth at Ottawa, Belleville and Owen Sound, Ont. ; 

 Cove Head, Prince Edward Island ; on rocks at Morley, Eocky Moun- 

 tains ; and at Eevelstoke and Deer Park on the Columbia River, B.C. 

 (^Macoun.) On sandy knolls at London, Ont. (J. Beamess.) 



(49'7.) B. caespiticium, Linn. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 235 ; Canadian ilusci, No. 178. 



Chance Cove, Newfoundland ; Fox Harbor and Vesuvius Pickle, 

 Labrador. (Eev. A. Waghome.) On dry ground, Bass River, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) On earth. Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) Halifax 

 and Pictou counties, X.S. (McKay.) River du Loup (en bas,) Que, 

 (St. Cyr.) Common on earth in open places in woods and in pas- 

 tures across the continent. Brackley Point and Cove Head, Prince 

 Edward Island ; at Ste. Anne des Monts, Gasp^ Co., Que. ; abundant 

 at Ottawa and Belleville, Ont. ; amongst rocks at Lake N^epigon; in 

 pastures, where water has stood, atllorley and Banff, Rocky Mountains ; 

 in Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; also at Revelstoke, Deer Park, 

 CSche Creek, Spence's Bridge and Lytton, B.C. ; north of Edmonton, 

 Athabasca. (Macoun.') On logs at Lobourough Lake, near Kingston, 

 Ont. (Prof. Fowler.') Little Whale River, Hudson Bay. (G. 

 Bamston.) Clearwater River, X.W.T., lat. 57°. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 Jakobshavn, Greenland. (B. Brawn.) Big Duck Island, Baffins' 

 Bay. (J. Sadler.) 



(498.) B. synorco-caespiticium, C. il. & Kindb. (n. sp.) ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 513. 



Tufts dense, about 1 cm. high, radiculose only at the base, green 

 above, brown-decolorate below. Leaves erect, not decurrent, subovate, 

 acuminate, not margined, recurved at the borders, slightly denticulate 

 above ; costa long-excurrent, very rigid, thick and often denticulate, 

 light-brown. Capsule^ tm-gid, oval, very shoit-necked, not, or slightly, 

 constricted below the mouth, pendent ; peristome perfect ; lid low and 

 umbonate ; spores about 0.015 mm. ; pedicel geniculate below the 

 middle, arcuate at the apex, about 5 cm. long, thick and red. Synoecious. 



This species is very different from 'the allied Bryum ccesvitidum in 

 the synoecious inflorescence, the larger spores and the .long, geniculate 

 pedicel of the capsule. 



On earth amongst gravel in the old channels of the Illecillewaet River 

 below the Canon at Revelstoke, B.C., May 27th, 1890. (Macoun.) 



