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(879.) H. Canadense, Kindb. Bull. Ton-. Bot Club, XVII., 280. 



Intermediate between H. imponens and S. subimponens. Dioecious. 

 Densely csespitose, yellow or pale-green. Stems creeping, densely 

 pinnate-ramulose ; branches robust, thick and tumid. Leaves close, 

 falcate, with elongate-ovate or oblong base and short acumen, faintly 

 or not striate, more or less denticulate all around, not reflexed on the 

 borders, larger than in S. imponens ; cells very narrow, the alar (one 

 or two) large and pellucid, the other basal cells yellow ; paraphyllia 

 few, subulate. Perigoriial leaves very broad-ovate, abruptly narrowed 

 to a straight subulate point. Capsule obovate, asymetric or subcylin- 

 dric and arcuate, thick and not striate ; teeth yellow, segments orange, 

 cilia short and not append iculate; pedicel 4-5 em. long; upper peri- 

 chetial leaves erect. This species seems to be confounded with H. 

 imponens. 



St. John's and Hopewell Bay, Bay Bull Arm and White Bay, ISTew- 

 foundland. {Reo. A. Waghome.) On stones, McNab Island, Halifax 

 Harbor, N.S. ; on rotten logs at the summit level of the Canadian 

 Pacific Eailway, near Hector, Eooky Mountains, alt. 5,300 feet ; on 

 old logs at Leamington, Lake Erie, and at Eockcliffe, Ottawa, Ont. ; 

 on stones in woods at Hull, Que. (Macoun.) Prince of Wales Island, 

 Alaska, 1891. (J. M. Macoun.) 



(880.) H. imponens, Hedw. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 393 ; Canadian Musci, JSTo. 348. 



Miquelon Island. (Delamare.) Pictou Co., JST.S. {McKay.) Old 

 logs, Canaan Forks, N.B. (J. Moser.) Bay Bull Arm, Placentia Bay, 

 and New Harbor, ^Newfoundland. (^Beo. A. Waghorne.) Old logs, 

 Pirate's Cove, Straits of Canso, N.S. ; common on rotten logs at Ot- 

 tawa ; abundant in woods at Belleville, Ont. ; on old logs at Hastings, 

 B.C. ; and on Mount Arrowsmith, Yancouver Island. (^Macoun.) 



(881.) H. subimponens, Lesq. ; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. 

 America, 393 ; Canadian Musci, No. 349. 



Old logs, Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) Green 

 Harbor, Newfoundland. {Mev. A. Waghorne.) Very common on 

 trees and on the ground in British Columbia and on Vancouver Island. 

 (Jliyall.) On wet rocks at Eevelstoke, Deer Park (Lower Arrow 

 Lake), and at Pass Creek Falls, near Sproat, Columbia Eiver ; abun- 

 dant on rocks at Victoria, Vancouver Island. (JMacoun.) On logs at 

 Comox, Vancouver Island. (^Dawson.) 



