(138.) C. purpureus Brid.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 92; Canadian Musci, No. 56.

Didymodon purpureum, Drumm. Musc. Bor. - Am. No. 116.

Common almost everywhere in burnt woods. (Drummond.) Very common at Pictou, N.S. (McKay.) Near St. John, N.B. (Hay.) Abundant everywhere in New Brunswick. (Fowler's Cat.) River du Loup (en bas), Que. (St Cyr.) Abundant in all suitable localities from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It prefers roadsides, pastures, old walls, and roofs of houses and dry rocky ground. Collected by every person. (Macoun.) Apparently very common in Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) Shore of Buffalo Lake. N.W.T. (J. M. Macoun.) Kotzebue Sound, Sitka and Nulato. (Roth. Alask.) Jakobshavn, Greenland. (R. Brown.) Miquelon Island. (Delàmare.) Tay, York Co. and Canaan Forks, Queen's Co., N.B. (J. Moser.) A very common moss by roadsides at London, Ont. (J. Dearness.)

Var. xanthopus, Sulliv.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 92.

On earth and rocks, Johnston's Strait, Gulf of Georgia. (Dawson.) Damp rocks near Cadboro Bay, Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.)

(139.) C. conicus, (Hampe.) Lindb.; Braithw. .British Moss-Flora, 175.

Differs from C. purpureus in the long-excurrent costa, the capsule erect and symmetric, faintly sulcate, the lid shorter, the teeth pale, red at base, with fewer articulations. (Kindberg.)

On the base of a stump, on the extensive flat at the head of the ravine north of Mr. Murray's Ranche, Spence's Bridge, B.C., May 31st, 1889. (Macoun.)

(140.) C - minor, Aust.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 92.

On damp earth along the Fraser River at Quesnel, B.C., 1875; Mount Tolmie, near Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1887. (Macoun.)