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St. George Island, Behring Sea, 1891. (J! M. Macoun.') Canada. 

 {Macoun fide Austin.) 



(772.) E. piliferum, (Schi-eb.) Brach & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnum 'piliferum, Schreb. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N, America, 353. 

 Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Mbser.) 



(773.) E. Boscii, (Sehwaegr.) 



Hypnum Boscii, Sehwaegr, ; Lesq, & James, Mosses of N. America, 352. 

 S. illecebrum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 192. 



On the groand in (Ontario) Upper Canada. (Drummond.) Doubtful. 



(774.) E. Dawson i, Kindb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVII., 278. 



Stems pinnate, not or rarely radiculose ; branchlets patent. Leaves 

 green or brownish, not glossy, not, or indistinctly, papillose, not long- 

 acuminate from the broad, ovate base, recurved on the borders below, 

 long-decurrent, open-erect, denticulate all around ; areolation variable, 

 often sub-rhombbidal ; costa thick, reaching nearly to the apex. 

 Probably dioecious. Allied to E. Mans and E. Sullivantii. 



On rocks along the Nanaimo River, below the railway bridge, 

 Nanaimo, Y^ncouver Island, April 26th, 1887; on stones in a ditch, 

 west side of Black's hotel, Hastings, B.C., 1889. (^Macoun.) 



(775.) E. praelongum, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Tay, York Co., JST.B. (J. Moser.) 



(776.) E. Sullivantii, (Spruce.) Lesq. & James. 



Hypnum StUlivantii, Spruce, MS. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 

 353 ; Canadian Musci, No. 296. , 



On rocks at Truro, N.S. (^Fowler's Cat.) On rocks at Canaan 

 Forks, Queen's Co., K.B. (J. Moser.) On rocks at Hull, Que. ; abun- 

 dant on limestone rocks, Eoyston Park, near Owen Sound, Ont. 

 (Macoun.) 



(777.) E. hians, (Hedw.) Lesq. & James. 



Hypnum hians, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 354 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 442, in part 



Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (/. Moser.) On earth at Pirate's 

 Cove, Strait of Canso, N.S. ; on earth in McKay's woods, neai- the lake^ 

 Ottawa ; on old logs and damp rocks at Hastings, B.C. (^Macoun.) 



