MACOON.] ' CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 189 



(Yll.) C. hamatidens, E!indb. 



Hypnum {Camptotheclum) hamatidens, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVI., 

 97 ; Canadian Musci, No. 279. 



Dioecious. Densely cajspitose, yellow or green, glossy. Stems pros- 

 trate, scarcely or not radiculose, irregularly pinnate-ramose ; branchlets 

 short, attenuate and flexuose. Leaves open-erect, lanceolate, long 

 filiform-acuminate, striate^ hooked-denticulate or spinulose all around, 

 reflexed on the borders ; cells narrow, the basilar small and short ; 

 costa stout, vanishing at the apex. Perichetial leaves nerveless, nar- 

 rowed into an erect, or flexuose, subulate point, entire or slightly 

 denticulate. Capsule cylindric-oblong, curved, suberect or inclined, 

 without a neck ; segments split their whole length or coherent at the 

 apex; cilia rudimentary ; annulus narrow; lid conic-obtuse, depressed 

 in the middle and mammillate ; pedicel 1-1.5 cm, long, rough the 

 whole length. Belated to H. Nuttallii, Wils., but differs as above. 



On rocks at Yale and Agassiz, B.C. ; on trees at Mount Tolmie, 

 near Victoria, Vancouver Island ; (also at Nanaimo, June 8th, 1887.) ? 

 (Macoun.) 



Var. tenue, Kindb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVII., 277 ; Canadian 

 Musci, No. 392. 



Branches longer, filiform, leaves smaller only at the base and 

 hooked-denticulate at the apex. 



On perpendicular rocks, Mount Brskine, Salt Spring Island, Gulf of 

 Georgia, B.C., May 10th, 1887. CMacoun.) 



(712.) C. nitens, Schimp. Syn., 530. 



Hypnum {Camptoihecium) nitens, Schreb. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 333 ; Canadian Musci, No. 278 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., 

 No. 172. 



In swamps ; not common. {Drummmd.) Mansfield Island, Hudson 

 Straits. {R. Bell.) Peat bogs, Salt Lake, Anticosti ; Dow's swamp 

 and Mer Bleue, near Ottawa ; peat swamps in Hastings and Northum- 

 berland counties, Ont. ; peat bog, Lake Nepigon, Ont. ; on wet lime- 

 stone rocks, Hudson Hope, Peace Eiver, lat. 56° ; swamps at Morley, 

 Banff, Stephen and Hector, Eocky Mountains ; peat swamp west of 

 the Praser Eiver at Quesnel, B.C. {Macoun.') Peat bogs, Port Arthur, 

 Ont. {Mrs. E. G. Britton.) In bogs, Portage la Loche, N.W.T. (J. 

 M. Macoun.) Kotzebue Sound. {Roth. Alask.) Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) 

 Bogs, Saskatchewan. {Bourgeau.) In swamps near London, Ont. (J. 

 Dearness.) 



