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Stems pinnate, prostrate, sparingly radiculose. Leaves densely 

 crowded, sqTiarrose-recui-ved, round-deltoid, short-acuminate, reflexed 

 on the borders of the entire base to the denticulate acumen ; alar cells 

 quadrate, pellucid, not numerous, the other short-oblong or short- 

 lanceolate ; costa obsolete or none. Capsule small, narrow-cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, annulus simple ; basilar membrane low ; lid convex, 

 obtuse and not apiculate ; pedicel reddish-brown, smooth, 2 cm. long. 

 On earth by springs at Mount Stephen, also abundant forming thin 

 mats on flat stones at Hector and on the slopes of Cathedral Mountain. 

 Eocky Mountains, alt. 5,600 feet. (Macmm.) Eocks about the Portage 

 Eiver, in the Eocky Mountains. (Brumvwnd.} 



(844.) H. stellatum, Schreb.; Lesq.& James, Mosses of N.America, 

 379 ; Canadian Musci, No. 330. 



Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait, (fi. Bell.)' Miquelon Island. 

 (Belamare.) New Harbor, Newfoundland, and Fox Harbor, Labrador 

 (^Rev. A. Wagkorne.) On earth in bogs and swamps at Gunn Eiver and 

 Becscie Eiver, Anticosti ; on earth in a meadow, Gasp^ Co., Que. ; 

 beaver meadow. Lake Nipissing ; on boggy toil at Current Eiver and 

 Mamainse, Lake Superior ; peaty meadow, Porcupine Mountains, Man. ; 

 in swamps at Murley and Stephen, Eocky Mountains ; in bogs near 

 Fort Assiniboine, Athabasca Eiver ; in a limestone spring, Sicamous, 

 B.C. ; also on the mountains north of Griffin Lake, Gold Eunge, B.C 

 {Macoun.) Greenland. {Fl. Gr.) In swamps at London, Ont. (J. 

 Dearness.) 



Var. protensum, Bruch & Schimp. ; Canadian Musci, No. 331. 



In beaver meadows, Huntingdon, Hastings Co., Ont. ; also in swampy 

 meadows at Stephen and Morley, Eocky Mountains ; in limestone 

 springs, shore of Lake Mara, near Sicamous, B.C. (_Macnun.) 



Var. subdecursivulum, Kindb. (n. var.) 



Leaves smaller, decurrent, abruptly acuminate from a short-ovate 

 base ; alar cells more numerous. Not found fruiting. 



Amongst Dlcranum scoparium on earth by springs in a swamp near 

 Brighton, Northumberland Co., Ont, October 5th, 1888. (Macoun.) 



(845.) H. polygamum, Wils. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 319. 



H. stellatum, Drumm. Muse. Bor.-Am., No. 184. 



Swamps; hot frequent. (Brummond.) In the " Big Swamp," Murray, 

 Northumberland Co., Ont. ; on earth in the valley of the Thompson 



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