MACOUN.] CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 21*7 



(816.) A. Sprucei, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnwm Sprucei, Bruch dc Schimp Ms. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 



America, 372 ; Canadian Musci, No. 315. 

 S. confervoides, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 190. 



Shady banks among the Eocky Mountains. (Brummond.) On 

 earth, Mount Albert, Gasp6 Co., Que. ; on trees in Dow's swamp near 

 Ottawa ; on old stumps in Brighton, Ont. ; on old stumps at Hudson 

 Hope, Peace Eiver, lat. 56° ; on bases of stumps and on earth under 

 rocks at Hector, and on old stumps, Lake Louise, Eocky Mountains ; 

 on earth in woods at Eevelstoke, Columbia Eiver, B.C. ; on stumps at 

 Lytton, B.C. ; and on stumps at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island ; on 

 stumps near Lessor Slave Lake, N.W.T. {Macoun.') Greenland. 

 {Fl. Gr.) 



(8n.) A. speirophyllum, Kindb. Ott. Nat. lY., 64. 



Plants loosely C88spitose, dark-green. Stem capillary, irregularly 

 ramulose, not or sparingly radiculose. Leaves small, long-distant, 

 spreading, subcordate or oval-oblong, blunt or sub-acute, entire or 

 denticulate ; cells short ; costa sub-percurrent, broad, sometimes very 

 distinct. Barren. Probably dicBcious. Habit of Amblystegium Sprucei. 



On rocks at Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., !N".B., November, 1889. (J. 

 Moser.) 



(818.) A. fenestratum, Kindb. 



A. tenuifoUum, Kindb. Ott. Nat. IV., (35. 



Plants loosely coherent, green ; stems capillary, irregularly ramu- 

 lose. Leaves small, spreading, very naiTOw, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 denticulate; cells dilated but elongate; costa more or less distinct. 

 Barren. Habit of Amblystegium Sprucei. ' 



On the borders of a pond near London, Ont, June, 1889. (/. 

 Dearness.) 



(819.) A. subtile, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Europ. 



Hypnwm subtile, Hoffm. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 372 ; 

 Canadian Musci, No. 316 ; Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 227. 



On the roots of trees in Upper Canada (Ontario) ; at Holland Land- 

 ing, &c. (JDrummond.') On the bases of trees in McKay's woods and 

 Dow's swamp, Ottawa ; very abundant also on trees at Owen Sound, 

 Ont. {Macoun.^ 



