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small or indistinct hypophysis ; length 5-Y mm., diameter 2-2|^ mm. ; 

 lid conic-acuminate, red at margin. 



This species seems to include the greater part of the specimens 

 formerly referred to P. formosum. On the ground at Bass Eiver, N.B. 

 {Fowler's Oat.) Canaan Porks, IST.B. {J. Moser.) Woods, Montcalm 

 Co., Que. (Z)' Urban.') In woods, Becscie Eiver, Anticosti ; woods, 

 ISTorth Sydney, Cape Breton ; Mount Stewart and Brackley Point, 

 Prince Edward Island ; along the Ste. Anne de Monts Eiver, G-asp^ 

 Co., Que. ; on earth in woods at Casselman, near Ottawa ; on earth 

 in woods in Peterboro and Victoria counties, Ont. ; also at North 

 Bay Lake Nipissing ; at Leamington, Lake Brie ; in woods, near Fort 

 William, Lake Superior ; on earth and rocks along the Columbia Eiver, 

 above Eevelstoke, B.C. {Macoun.) 



(589.) P. conorhynch m Kindb. (n. sp.) 



Differs from Polytrichum formosum in the leaves being canaliculate 

 and the capsule shorter and broader, not attenuate at the base ; diifers 

 from Polytrichum gracile also in the capsule, which is distinctly acute- 

 angulate, the conic-rostrate lid and the long-sheathing leaves. 



In a small bog along the C. P. Eailway in Eoger's Pass east of the 

 summit. Selkirk Mountains, July Slst, 1890. (Macoun.) 



(590.) P. pi I if eru m , Schreb. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 264 ; Canadian Musci, No. 222 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am.,No. 2t8. 



Grassy Mountains. (Drummmd.) Gravelly knolls, Bass Eiver, 

 N.B. (Fowler's Gat.) Ste. Clotilde, Arthabaska Co., Que. (St. Gyr.) 

 Miquelon Island. [Belamare.) On rocks, North West Arm, Halifax, 

 N.S. ; on earth in sandy woods, Murray, Northumberland Co., Ont. ; 

 barren ground and rocks, Lake Nepigon and Lake Nipissing, Ont. ; 

 at Hector, Eocky Mountains ; on rocks at Deer Park and Sproat, 

 Columbia Eiver ; on earth at New Westminster Junction, B.C. ; very 

 common at Victoria and Cedar Hill, also Mount Benson near Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Vancouver Island. (Lyall.) Alaska. 

 (Nelson.) Kobbefjord, West G-reenland, 28th June, 1884. (Warming 

 & Holm.) 



Var. Hoppei, Eabenh. 



On Castle Mountain, Eocky Mountains ; alt. 7,500. (Macoun.) 



(591.) P. hyperboreum, E. Brown, Fl. Melv. Is., 69. 

 Melville Islands. (R. Brown.) Common in Greenland. (Fl. Gr.) 



