Preliminary Cryptogamic (Moss, Lichen and Liverwort) Flora of the Canadian and American Gorge at Niagara Falls 1. Mosses

P. M. Eckel
Res Botanica, a Missouri Botanical Garden Web site

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June 21, 2004

 

PRELIMINARY CRYPTOGAMIC (MOSS, LICHEN AND LIVERWORT) FLORA OF THE CANADIAN AND AMERICAN GORGE AT NIAGARA FALLS

1. Mosses

 

P. M. Eckel, Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA

 

 

 

MOSSES

 

Abietinella abietina (Hedw.) Fleisch. = Thuidium abietinum (Hedw.) BSG.

 

Aloina brevirostris (Hook. & Grev.) Kindb.

 

C. Delgadillo showed the region of Niagara Falls on his distribution map, p. 358,  Crum & Anderson 1981.

 

Aloina rigida (Hedw.) Limpr.

 

CAN: As Barbula rigida Hedw, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park .Cameron 1895.

 

USA: Zander, Ongiara, lower slopes

 

"Rare and scattered" according to Craig, in Grout's Moss Flora. Niagara, Delgadillo, Bryologist 78:299, 1975. 

 

"Niagara Falls, and two places clearly in Ontario." Crum & Anderson (1981, p. 360). Macoun (1892, p.49) reported a specimen of this species collected "On earth at Niagara Falls, 15th June, 1884 (Macoun)," although Ireland and Cain (1975) did not locate Macoun's specimen on which he based his report.

 

A specimen identified as Barbula rigida from Niagara Falls, Canada by J. Macoun, 1889 (572b), located at Stockholm (S) was redetermined as Aloina brevirostris (H. & G.) Kindb. by both C. Delgadillo (Mar. 1973) and R. Zander (1993) [synoicous, with Barbula convoluta].

 

Amblystegium fluviatile (Hedw.) BSG. NY CHECK

 

CAN: (As Hygroamblystegium fluviatile) Niagara Glen. Ann Glowny 2116 4-13-67 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, Eckel 28686 BUF, NYS. (Eckel, 1986b).

 

 USA: Goat Island on the Niagara River. Dolomite flats just west of the Three Sisters Islands.Wet roots Cornus stolonifera. P. M. Eckel July 5, 1988 (BUF ).

 

USA: (As Hygroamblystegium fluviatile) Three Sisters Islands, wet marly

area on east end of Second Sister.Wm. R. Buck 16395 2 Nov 1988 (BUF), NY).

 Note: these specimens should be compared with Amblystegium tenax.

 Amblystegium jungermannioides (Brid.) Giac. fid. Giac.

= Hypnum sprucei (Bruch) Spruc.

 

USA: (As "A." sprucei Brch.) Goat Island. James in Pr. Am. Phil. Soc. (Peck 1866),

 

USA: (as Hypnum sprucei (Bruch) Spruce)  Goat Is., Niagara Falls, James@, Day 1883. 

 

USA: Goat Island. On the ground. Thomas P. James July, 1850 (BUF).

 

Amblystegium riparium  (Hedw.) BSG = Leptodictium riparium (Hedw.) Warnst.

 

Amblystegium serpens (Hedw.) BSG NY CHECK

 

USA: Suspension Bridge (now City of Niagara Falls by the Lower Arch Bridge) (as Hypnum serpens) "(the fruiting one) also a little of some doubtful Hypnum perhaps laetum or rutabulum and a stem or two of  Mnium": archived letter BUF from Charles Peck to George Clinton (collector, from Clinton's  trip May 11, 1867 noted in Clinton's journal)

 

USA: Eckel, Three Sisters.

 

USA. Goat Island just above Three Sisters Island. Soaking soil by rushing water, low area, calcareous substrate. With R. H. Zander. P. M. Eckel NFlll May 5, 1984 (BUF);  Goat Island,oak-maple forest over limestone; north slope of Goat Island. W. R. Buck 16298 1 Nov. 1988 (BUF, NY).

 

USA: Whirlpool Bridge. At R.R. Bridge under over-pass. Upper path along rim of gorge along dolomite caprock on industrial cinder midden. On cinders.Eckel 231185 3-9-85 (BUF).

 

USA. DeVeaux College woods, hummock, old growth woods, with Fissidens taxifolius, Ceratodon purpureus.  With A. tenax var. spinifolium. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 7, 2000 (BUF).

 

CAN. As Hypnum serpens Hedw., Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN. Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). On rock, halfway down to Niagara River, dolomite boulder field. With Tortula mucronifolia, Fissidens bryoides. P.M.Eckel 1374901 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, G. W. Clinton, May [NYS]

 

USA: Whirlpool Woods, G. W. Clinton, June [NYS]

 

Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.

(In NY CHECK as A. juratzkanum Schimp.)

 

USA: by Robert Moses Pkwy Overpass and Lower Arch Bridge, upper path; moist soil over dolomite. P. M. Eckel with R. H. Zander 191185 June 2, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Boulder field, halfway down Whirlpool steps, May 6, 1987, c. fr., Eckel 9302092g (BUF).

 

USA: By Robert Moses Pkwy Overpass and lower Arch Bridge, upper path, moist soil over dolomite, June 2, 1985 Eckel & Zander No. 191185 (BUF)

 

A specimen of Amblystegium minutissimum from Niagara Falls, New York, probably collected by Fr. Wolle, July 18, 1874 (NY), was a particularly small form of this species. An Albany (NYS) specimen of A. T.  Beals' (No. 230, Aug. 26, 1917, as Thuidium pygmaeum "on moist limestone and on small limestone pebbles, Niagara (American) Falls", duplicate from the Wiegmann herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden) is a depauperate, minute form of Amblystegium juratzkanum mixed with Fissidens bryoides. 

USA: base of Goat Island; spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river, thin soil over rocks, base of falls, with Fissidens cristatus, Zander 3475b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

USA: Erie Co.  Grand Island. Marshy elm woods at so. end Grand Island. Niagara R. On tree base. Ann Glowny 1296 3-28-67 (BUF).

 

Amblystegium tenax (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen

 

= Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn. NY CHECK

See Amblystegium fluviatile.

 

USA: (as Hypnum orthocladon P.-Beauv. ) Clinton specimen from Devil's Hole, herb no. 41139.

 

(As Hypnum irriguum Hook. & Wils.) "Niagara Falls ..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 374).

 

USA: Lewis falls (not Goat) Upper As Amblystedium orthocladon (P. Beauv.) Mac. & Kindb.

 

CAN: "On earth below Queenston Heights, Ont., May 8th, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 302.

 

USA: (as Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.) Niagara Falls, edge American Falls (not Goat Island). M. Lewis April 12, 1981 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, south shore (Eckel 1990b); weedy bank facing Three Sisters, on Limestone rocks occ. wet, with Impatiens.P. M. Eckel Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF); Dolomite flats just west of the Three Sisters Islands. Wet base Cornus stolonifera. P. M. Eckel June 4, 1988 (BUF); Central Acer-Fraxinus mixed old woods, soil, west end of woods in spray zone of the Horseshoe Falls. Sandy loam. Base of tree.PM Eckel, Marguerite Eckel 9004271 April 15 1990 (BUF).

 

USA: north slope of Goat Island. Wm. R. Buck 16285 1 Nov 1988(BUF, NY).

 

USA: var. tenax. Base of Goat Island at bottom of falls on talus slope. Wm. R. Buck 16356 1 Nov 1988 (BUF, NY).

USA: var. tenax. Goat Island, Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck, 16440 (NY).

USA: Luna Island ,1 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck 16318 (BUF, NY), 16332 (BUF, NY).

USA. Bath Island (=Green Island) in the Niagara River just N of Goat Island. Generally disturbed area of lawns, base of Ash, river's edge. With Bryum capillare Hedw. P.M. Eckel May 26, 1988 (BUF); Green Island on the Niagara R just N of Goat Island. Old dolomite ballast on S side. Submersed, wet to moist river margin. PM Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel 9004157 April 15 1990 (BUF).

USA: First Sister Island, western half, 2 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck, 16421 (BUF, NY), 16427 (BUF, NY).

var. tenax. . USA: Second Sister Island, west end, tree roots, wet in high water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); 2 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck, 16382 (NY); var. tenax. wet marly area on east end of Second Sister. Wm. R. Buck 16398 2 Nov 1988 (BUF, NY), 16403 (BUF, NY), 16406 (BUF, NY).

var. tenax. USA: Third Sister Island, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck 16436 (BUF, NY); var. tenax. USA: Third Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck 16431 (BUF, NY), Buck 16433 (BUF, NY).

 

USA. Top of Whirlpool Steps, N of the Whirlpool, Niagara Gorge. Moist area. w. R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 880923 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).

 

CAN. Gorge of the Niagara River, near Horseshoe Falls, down rd. to power house, on sandstone, near shoreline.R. H. Zander 3658 Aug. 10, 1971 (BUF).

 

Amblystegium tenax var. spinifolium (Schimp.) Crum & Anderson.

 

USA. DeVeaux College woods, hummock, old growth woods, with Fissidens taxifolius, Ceratodon purpureus.  With A. serpens. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 7, 2000 (BUF).

 

CAN. Gorge of the Niagara River, near Horseshoe Falls, near bottom of slope, spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses. R. H. Zander 3682 Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF).

   

Amblystegium trichopodium (Schultz) Hartm.

 

As Leptodictyum trichopodium (Schultz.) Warnst. NY CHECK

USA. (As Leptodictyum trichopodium): Third Sister Island, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16435 (NY).

USA. DeVeaux College woods by Whirlpool State Park near gorge of Niagara River. Most frequent moss in damp elevations in bare soil. Old growth, Sugar Maple-Red Oak woods.P. M. Eckel s.n. May 18, 2000 (BUF).

 

CAN. Navy Island, 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just S of Niagara Falls; west side, bark base of tree; Oak woodland. Ceratodon, Dicranum montanum. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).

 

Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb. NY CHECK as var. varium

 

CAN."... quite common on stones and earth at Niagara and Queenston, Ont., 1901 ... (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 301‑02.

 

USA: Eckel, RR Bridge, upper slopes.

 

USA: City of Niagara Falls, Whirlpool State Park, in solo sylvatico sterili calcareo, in luco Querci rubri, umbroso, P. M. Eckel, Oct. 4, 1997 (BUF), with Mnium cuspidatum.   

 

CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats, lower slopes.

 

USA: Eckel 522386, lower slopes, between steps & Whirlpool.

 

USA: Goat Island, Second Sister, side of dolomite boulder, near N end just above waterline, Zander, June 11, 1991 (BUF).

 

USA. Base of Goat Island, spray zone of Horseshoe Falls, near river, soil under boulder, Zander 3478, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).

 USA: Goat Island, south side, flats just west of Three Sisters, island margin of Cornus stolonifera (Eckel 1990b).

USA: Goat Island, just above Three Sisters Island. Soaking soil by rushing water, low area, calcareous substrate. With R. H. Zander. P. M. Eckel NFlll May 5, 1984 (BUF).

 

USA. Gorge of the Niagara River, near the American Falls by Prospect Point, near river, driftwood. R. H. Zander 3744 Sept. 30, 1971 (BUF); thin soil, crevices of limestone boulder. R. H. Zander 3741a Sept. 30, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: Whirlpool Street at the RR Bridge under the Robt Moses Pkwy overpass, upper path along dolomite caprock. On porous cinder.P.M.Eckel with R. Zander 131685 March 9, 1985 (BUF); at Whirlpool St. by the R. R. bridge under Robt. Moses Pkwy. Along dolomite caprock at rim of gorge. Path. P. M. Eckel with R. H. Zander 131685 3-9-85 (BUF)..

 

USA. Whirlpool Street by the RR Bridge under the overpass, along path along dolomite caprock just below the lip of the gorge. Punky old stump. With R. H. Zander stump.P. M. Eckel 1031185 March 9, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA. Whirlpool State Park, in solo sylvatico sterile calcareo, in luco Querci rubri, umbroso. Mixed with Mnium cuspidatum. P. M. Eckel s.n. Oct. 4, 1997 (BUF).

 

CAN: Base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls.  In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with Dicranella varia, Fissidens taxifolius, Weissia brachycarpa, Physcomitrium pyriforme, May 27, 1991, Eckel No. 9302250 (BUF).

 

CAN. Niagara River Gorge, near Horseshoe Falls, down road to power house, dry roadside bank, soil. det. P. M. Eckel  1995 R. H. Zander 3655 Aug. 10, 1971 (BUF).

 

CAN. Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shaded soil; shore; top of embankment; + Barbula unguiculat; Anomod. rugelii.P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF); northwest and northern river margins. + A. serpens, Fiss. taxifol., Didymodon fallax.P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF).

 

Amphidium lapponicum (Hedw.) Schimp.

 

CAN: As  Zygodon lapponicus (Hedw.) BSG "... on damp rocks, Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 226.

 

Anomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Hueb. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park .Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) Just N Of The Whirlpool, Base Of Dolomite Boulder, N-Facing Aspect, With Myurella siberica, Lophocolea heterophylla. P. M. Eckel 321186 April 11, L985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, northeast side, dry fringe meadow; soil, characteristic of vegetation of meadow between crest and shrubby forest border. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF).

 

USA: Zander, Ongiara, lower Zander 3521a (NYS, BUF) (Eckel, l986).

 

USA: talus, between steps and Whirlpool, Eckel 221386 BUF.

USA: First Sister Island, western half, Eckel 880723, July 8, 1987 (BUF); 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16429 (BUF, NY).

Anomodon minor (Hedw.) Fuernr. NY CHECK

 

Anomodon obtusifolius Bruch & Schimp.

 

CAN: (As Anomodon obtusifolius),  Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: (As Anomodon obtusifolius) "Trunks of trees in Upper Canada (Ontario) and about Niagara Falls. (Drummond.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 171. 

 

CAN: Hab. Trunks of trees in Upper Canada; and about the Falls of Niagara. Drummond, Musci Americani no. 163 (as A. viticulosum) (NY). 

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge of Niagara River, bottom of W facing slope, between Devil's Hole and the Whirlpool, thin soil on boulder, wet area. R. H. Zander April l7, 1971 (BUF).

 

Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. NY CHECK,

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895.

 

USA: New York, on rock, vic. Lewiston, Clifford A. LaMere No. 405, April 21, 1962 (NYS).

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Boulder field. Base of dolomite block, shaded woodland. P.M.Eckel 725086 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Vertical face of limestone boulder, mesic Acer, Tsuga canadensis woods, bottomland. P.M.Eckel with R. Zander NF9 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).

 

USA: Whirlpool St. by the RR Bridge, upper path along the dolomite caprock..dolomite surface. With Amblystegium varium & Orthotrichum anomalum. With R. Zander P. M. Eckel 131785 March 9, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge of Niagara River, bottom of W facing slope, between Devil's Hole and Whirlpool, thin soil on boulder, wet area. R. H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF).

USA: First Sister Island, western half, Eckel 880726, July 8, 1987 (BUF); 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16335 (BUF, NY).

USA: Third Sister Island, northeast end, on boulder, Eckel, Sept. 29, 1988 (BUF).

Anomodon rugelii (C.M.) Keissl. NY CHECK

 

CAN: As Anomodon apiculatus BSG ex Sull. in Gray following Crum & Anderson p. 870. Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895 (CAN).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shaded soil; shore; top of embankment; + Amblyst. varium; Thuidium delicatulum.

P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998

 

Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Tayl. NY CHECK

 

From a letter from Leo Lesquereux to George Clinton Oct. 16, 1865 (BUF archives):

    "About Anomodon viticulosus, you will find it in plenty against a large

rock near the base of that footpath descending from Goat Island to the top

of the American falls. You know that there are two ways of going there: the

broad way by stairs and aside of it, on the right a small slippery foot

path on the slope of the Island; it is on this foot path about halfway down

that said Anomodon grows. I never found it in America except at this place.

James collected it also there, &c"

 

USA: "Rocks. Goat Island, Lesqx. Various localities about Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton." (Peck 1866).

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895. 

 

CAN: Niagara Falls; Whirlpool, Niagara River, Canadian side.  Day 1883

 

USA: Rocks & trees, Niagara Falls, July 18, 1874 (NY) Herb. Coe Finch Austin (probably all colls. 1874 are Wolle's). 

 

Hab. ad rupes humidas Niagarae cataractae. No. 359 [Sullivant & Lesquereux, Musci Bor.‑Amer., ed. 2, 359] (NY)

 

USA: Ad rupes humidas Niagarae cataractae. Musci Bor. Am. Sull. & Lesq. Ed. 2. 1865. Sull. & Lesq. (BUF).

 

USA: Niagara Falls. G.W.Clinton (BUF).

 

Hab. ad rupes humidas Niagarae cataractae. No. 359 [Sullivant & Lesquereux, Musci Bor.‑Amer., ed. 2, 359] (NYS)

 

USA: Hab. Niagara Falls [N.Y. penciled in later], 1873, leg. F. Wolle (NY).

 

CAN: On limestone rocks, Niagara River. J. Macoun, May 18, 1901 (NY).

 

USA: Devil's Hole, limestone on rocks in dry creek valley, R. & I. Duell, May 19, 1981 (NY).

 

USA: boulder field, half way down Whirlpool steps, with Bryum lisae var. cuspidatum, Campylium chrysophyllum, Tortella tortuosa, Plagiopus oederiana, Marchantia polymorpha, Mnium thomsonii, Encalypta procera, Gymnostomum aeruginosum, May 6, 1987, Eckel No. 9302092a (BUF).

 

CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats and boulder‑field, half way down.

 

CAN: Foster's Flats (Niagara Glen). on the Niagara River. Abundant, over dolomite blocks. Boulder field, medis hemlock-thuja bottomland.

With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 431285 April 5, 1985 (BUF).

 

Clinton specimen, " Niagara Falls" herb no. 36141

 

"Shaded rocks; Niagara Falls, sterile ..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884 p. 306). Note Clinton's journal may indicate that Lesquereux himself collected the sterile specimen. 

 

USA: On stone Niagara Falls. "(This is a Eur. specimen. I had no time to look for those of Niagara)" [L. Lesqu.]

Herbarium number: 36142  (BUF).

 

"Shaded rocks; Niagara Falls, sterile. (Lesq. & James)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 171. 

 

USA: Crest of the gorge of the Niagara River, just N of Whirlpool State Park. With Barbula unguiculata w. R. H. Zander. P. M. Eckel 880919 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).

 

Astomum muhlenbergianum (Sw.) Grout.

 

USA: Eckel slope sewage treatment plant, Upper Gt.Gorge. Eckel 17686 (BUF), (Eckel, l986b).

 

Atrichum angustatum Bruch & Schimp.

 

Catharinea angustata Brid.

 

CAN: On earth, Queenston, Ont. May 13, 1901. John Macoun, coll, det. by Dr. N. C. Kindberg. Canadian Mosses No. 181 (US, distributed by the National Herbarium of Canada).

 

CAN: "... on earth in woods, Queenston Heights, Niagara River, Ont., 1901.  (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 262. 

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Dry ground, low elevation in mucky ground.P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

Atrichum oerstedianum (C. Muell.) Crum.

 

USA: Artpark, Eckel & Eckel 914486 (BUF, NYS)  (Eckel, l986b).

 

ONT:(as A. undulatum var. oerstedianum (C.M.) Crum): Navy Island in the Niagara River: 43*03'N,79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls.Dominant on soil, island west side; Beech-Maple, Carya-Quercus forest; Hypnum lindbergii. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF).

 

Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.-Beauv.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: (as var. altecristatum Ren. & Card.) Navy Island in the Niagara River just S of Niagara Falls, central wet Quercus, Ulmus americana, Acer rubrum woods, with Fissidens taxifolius, Eurhynchium hians.P. M. Eckel s.n. July 15, 1998

 

USA: (as var. altecristatum Ren. & Card.) DeVeaux Woods State Park, deeply shaded virgin woods Quercus rubra, Acer saccharum, Quercus alba, little herbaceous growth. Near building complex. Soil. Sparse. Eckel, June 1, 2006 (MO).

 

Aulacomnium heterostichum (Hedw.) BSG

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895

 

Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwaegr.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895. see Disc. sub Sphagnum. 

 

"... in wet woods, Niagara Falls, Ont., 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 261.

 

Erie Co.: Grand Island. Wet soil in thicket, Buffalo Ornithological Refuge, Love Rd., Grand Isl., Niagara River. Ann Glowny 10502 7-5-72 (BUF).

 

Barbula convoluta Hedw. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: "On earth at Queenston Heights, Ont., May 8th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 213. 

 

A specimen at NY Barbula convoluta was "on earth, Queenston Heights" collected by J. Macoun, 8/5 1901. The notation 15 in ink in the upper left corner and in pencil: "=13".

 

CAN: [[A specimen identified as Barbula rigida from Niagara Falls, Canada by J. Macoun, 1889 (572b), located at Stockholm (S) was redetermined as Aloina brevirostris (H. & G.) Kindb. by both C.  Delgadillo (Mar. 1973) and R. Zander (1993) [synoicous, with Barbula convoluta] ‑ see A. rigida above. 

 

Macoun goes on to say: "All eastern references found under this species in Cat. Can. Musci, 57, belong here. All western to the next species" [= B.  chysopoda, C. Muell. & Kindb. was described earlier in Macoun, 1892, p.  57], which is a synonym of B. convoluta.

 

USA: Whirlpool Pk, upper slopes,  Zander May 15, l976 (BUF, NYS) Eckel, l986.

 

USA: Eckel 1622386 between steps & Whirlpool, seep in caprock

 

CAN: Base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls.  In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with Dicranella varia, Fissidens taxifolius, Amblystegium varium, Weissia brachycarpa, Physcomitrium pyriforme, May 27, 1991, Eckel No. 9302250 G (BUF). 

 

USA: Green Island on the Niagara River, Just N of Goat Island. Old Dolomite ballast on S side, wet to moist river margin. With Pottia t.,Barbula u.,Phascum c.,Bryum spp. PM Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel 9004159 April 15 1990 (BUF).

 

USA: Erie Co.:  Grand Island. In crevices of boulder by marsh, southern tip of Grand Island, Niagara River. Ann Glowny 1787 3-27-68 (BUF).

 

Barbula fallax Hedw. NY CHECK

USA: spray zone of American Falls, talus, midslope, pathside, thin soil, Zander 3451, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

USA: Devil's Hole Gorge of Niagara River, below Devil's Hole, bottom of W facing slope, top of rock wall, thin soil. R.H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF); Lewiston. Devil's Hole by the power authority on the Niagara River, upper slopes, calcareous ss, shales, dolomite on talus-cobble, open, full shade half day from surrounding  cliffs. P.M.Eckel with R. Zander 132285 March 16, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: (As Didymodon fallax var. fallax) Second Sister Island, west end, tree roots, wet in high water, Oct. 29 1988 (BUF); Second of the Three Sisters Islands in the Niagara River just S of Goat Island. Muck alluvium, west end, with Didymodon tophaceus, humectated tree roots. P.M. Eckel 881101 Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).

 

ONT: (As Didymodon fallax var. fallax) Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, northwest and northern river margins. Dry fringe meadow, soil between crest and shrubs, with Fiss. taxifolius. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF).

 

Barbula reflexa (Brid.) Brid. NY CHECK

 

CAN: As Barbula recurvifolia Mitt, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895.

 

As B. recurvifolia Schimp.; Lesq. & James, Mosses of N. America, 122. No. 4 [64?] Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada no. (201). Niagara Falls. (Austin). [hand written:] dry rocks. N. Falls, July 1874 (NY). = Didymodon ferrugineus (Besch.) Hill det. R. H. Zander, 2001: probably Canada.

 

Macoun (p. 54, 1892) cited a specimen collected by Coe Finch Austin from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

 

As Barbula recurvifolia, Schimp, "Niagara Falls (Austin)..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p.122), no country cited.

 

Barbula unguiculata Hedw. NY CHECK

 

Barbula apiculata, Hedw.

 

Barbula lanceolata, Hedw.

 

Barbula stricta Hedw.

 

Trichostomum indigens Ren. & Card.

 

[USA?] Niagara Falls. Rev. Francis Wolle (NY).

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895.

 

USA [?] Whirlpool, Niagara River, Day 1883.

 

USA: Zander, Eddy Basin, upper slopes.

 

USA: Niagara River Gorge, Sides Of sheer Dolomite Cliff, Seepage: Abundant Bryophytes, Upper Old Rr Path Near Top Of Gorge By Schoelkopf Museum. Det. Zander. P.M.Eckel 19286 Sept. 21, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: City of Niagara Falls, Whirlpool St. at Lower Arch (R.R.) Bridge, upper path just below rim of gorge, dolomite caprock, vertical rock wall, thin soil in moist fine cracks. R. Zander & P. M. Eckel 8612211 Dec. 12, 1986 (BUF). USA: Zander, Ongiara Gorge, lower slopes 

 

USA: between steps & Whirlpool Eckel 521386 BUF.

 

USA: Eckel 226386, Devil's Hole, above.

USA: Spray area of American Falls, talus, midslope soil, trailside, Zander 3454a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

CAN: Base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls.  In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with Dicranella varia, Fissidens taxifolius, Amblystegium varium, Weissia brachycarpa, Physcomitrium pyriforme, May 27, 1991, Eckel No. 9302250A (BUF). 

 

CAN: Dufferin Islands, mats on moist soil, April 4, 1993, c. fr., Eckel 9304223 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shaded soil; shore; top of embankment; + Amblyst. varium; Thuidium delicatulum. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, south shore (Eckel 1990b).

USA: Goat Island, east end ballast on island margins (Eckel 1990b).

USA: Goat Island on the Niagara River. SW shore, river's edge, shaded thicket, with Bryum sp. P. M. Eckel & M. P. Eckel 880720 July 8, 1986 (BUF); Goat Island. West parking lot, lawn and wood margin, with Phascum cuspidatum, Weissia hedwigii. P. M. Eckel & M. P. Eckel 880719 April 23, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island, dolomite ballast, SE end, with Didymodon tophaceus,Bryum argenteum, Funaria hygrometrica & Bryum P. M. Eckel 880721 June 4, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island. Soil at base of tree by the restaurant beside the driveway. With Phascum cuspidatum, Pottia truncata var. truncata. P. M. Eckel 881029 Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island, weedy bank facing Three Sisters, soil. Above Impatiens, Solidago above, weeds. det. Zander P. M. Eckel Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF); Goat Island. North slope, shore facing Luna Island. det. R. H. Zander P. M. Eckel May 2, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: Green Island on the Niagara R., just N of Goat Island. Old dolomite ballast on south side, wet to moist river margin. With Pottia truncata, Phascum cuspidatum. PM Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel 9004155b April 15 1990 (BUF).

 

Barbula unguiculata fo. apiculata (Hedw.) Moenk.

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring), P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF).

 

USA: Whirlpool St. by the RR Bridge, upper path along the dolomite caprock. With R. Zander P. M. Eckel 631785 March 9, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island on the Niagara River. North slope west end on brickwork. With Amblystegium tenax. det. R. H. Zander P. M. Eckel May 20, 1988 (BUF).

 

Bartramia muhlenbergii Schwaegr. =  Philonotis muhlenbergii (Schwaegr.) Brid.

 

Bartramia oederi Brid. = Plagiopus oederiana (Sw.) Limpr. 

 

Bartramia oederiana Turn.  = Plagiopus oederiana (Sw.) Limpr. 

 

Bartramia pomiformis Hedw.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895

 

CAN: "... on earth, Queenston Heights, Ont., May, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 239. 

 

Brachythecium acutum (Mitt.) Sull. NY CHECK

 

Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Aust.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

Brachythecium campestre (C.M.) BSG

 

CAN: Ontario, Regnl. Mun. Niagara, town of Niagara‑on‑the‑Lake, Paradise Grove, W side Niagara River on S boundary Fort George. spring‑inundated soil sub Quercus alba, Quercus rubra old forest. P. M. Eckel, Oct. 4, 1997 (BUF) c. young fr., with Leptodictium humile & Physcomitrium pyriforme, setae rough, leaves plicate. Specimen is exactly as described by Crum & Anderson (1981): the specimen would be B. rutabulum were it not for the clearly plicate nature of the leaves. Perhaps that the specimen occurred in a shaded, seasonally wet situation accounts for the variation.

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump; autoicous; with Campylium radicale. P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara-on-the-Lake. W side Niagara River on S boundary Fort George, spring-inundated soil sub Quercus alba, old forest. Setae rough, leaves plicate. with Leptodictium humile & Physcomitr. pyrif. P. M. Eckel s.n. Oct. 4, 1997 in young fruit (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island,

base of Carex rosea, moist Acer rubrum, Carya ovata woods. P. M. Eckel with R. H. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

Brachythecium curtum (Lindb.) Limpr.

=Brachythecium starkei (Brid.) BSG

 

USA: north of Whirlpool State Park, just N of DeVeaux stone steps down calcareous gorge face, moist shaded wooded bottom above riverbank on moist boulders, with Tortella tortuosa, B. oxycladon, Eckel, Sept. 23, 1991 (BUF).

 

USA: Green Island on the Niagara R just N of Goat Island. Old dolomite ballast on south side, wet to moist soil. PM Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel 90044250 April 15, 1990 (BUF).

 

Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. NY CHECK as var. oxycladon

 

CAN: as Hypnum laetum Dewey ex Brid, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895.   

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp.,  Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring); P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF); dioicous, seta smooth.

 

CAN: Dufferin Islands, edge of lawn on low crest above water, with Brachythecium rutabulum, Eckel & Zander, April 4, 1993, No. 9304291, c.fr. (BUF).  [Approaching var. dentatum (L.& J.) Grout, a form of wetter environments, in shorter leaves, more toothed leaf margins, strongly plicate, broadly acute apex, see Grout, p. 36, Vol. 3. It escapes the name B. digastrum C. Muell. & Kindb. in Macoun, by being dioicous rather than autoicous, the condition in the latter species.]

 

USA: Eckel, RR Bridge, upper slopes.

 

USA: Devil's Hole Near The Top On Dolomite Or Lime-Stone Talus, Rather Arid Situation, With Dryopteris Marginalis, Fissidens Taxifolius, Ceratodon Purpureus. P. Eckel 921186 March 16, L985 (BUF).

 

USA: Zander, Devil's Hole, lower slopes.

 

USA: DeVeaux (Whirlpool) Steps, on uneven rock wall, Eckel July 20, 1995.

 

USA: north of Whirlpool State Park, just N of DeVeaux stone steps down calcareous gorge face, moist shaded wooded bottom above riverbank on moist boulders, with Tortella tortuosa, B. curtum, Eckel, Sept. 23, 1991 (BUF). The moss was just beginning to develop fruit.

 

USA: First Sister Island, western half, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16334 (BUF, NY).

USA: First Sister Island, eastern half, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16415 (NY).

USA: Three Sisters Islands, west end of Second Sister. W. R. Buck 16385 2 Nov 88 (BUF, NY).

USA: Second Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16399 (BUF, NY), 16412 (BUF, NY).

USA: Third Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16434 (BUF, NY).

CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Mesic hard wood, Hemlock, Thuja woodland. Dolomite substrates. Soil covered dolomite boulders, abundant. P.M.Eckel with R.H.Zander 75385 April 5, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Dolomite substrates. Soil covered boulder. abundant.  With cilia. With R. H. Zander P. M. Eckel 75385 April 5, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Dolomite substrates. On rotten wood in shaded mesic hardwood hemlock-thuja bottomland With R. H. Zander  dupl. CANM. P. M. Eckel 631285 April 5, 1985 (BUF)..

 

This species is the most common pleurocarp on the American side of the river, blanketing ledges and soil in the drier situations that still support bryophyte populations. It is a soft, shining yellowish mat and does not often fruit. This is a dioicous species and mostly female stems were observed.

 

Brachythecium plumosum (Hedw.) Schimp. NY CHECK

 

Hypnum plumosum Hedw., Sp. Musc., p. 257, 1801.

 

Brachythecium flagellare (Hedw.) Jenn. on packet

 

USA: Niagara Co., Whirlpool Creek, c. fr. G. W. Clinton [glued to card] [NYS]

 

CAN: (as Hypnum plumosum Hedw.) Whirlpool, a Clinton specimen, Whirlpool Creek in Canada, may seem likely: they have a spring in their ravine, herb no. 38390.

 

Brachythecium rivulare BSG NY CHECK

 

= Hypnum rivulare Brid.(BSG) Bruch

 

USA: (As Hypnum rivulare Brch.) "Wet rocks in mountain streams, swamps and ravines. Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton" (Peck 1866).

 

USA: As Hypnum rivulare (BSG) Bruch in Wils. Rare. Devil's Hole, Niagara River.  (David F. Day).

 

CAN: As Hypnum rivulare, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron l895.

 

"... Niagara Falls .. (Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 200.

(Eckel 1990b).

 

USA: Goat Island, south side, flats just west of Three Sisters, Island margin of Cornus stolonifera (Eckel 1990b).

 

Erie Co.: Grand Island. Soil at marshy edge of Niagara River. Ann Glowny 1191 3-28-67 (BUF). 

 

Brachythecium rutabulum (Hedw.) Schimp. in BSG NY CHECK

 

CAN: As Hypnum rutabulum, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895.

 

"On earth, Foster's Flats, Niagara River, Ont., May, 1901.  (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 289. 

 

USA: Niagara Co., Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton [glued to cards, "2"] [NYS]

 

CAN: on earth, Foster's Flats, Niagara Falls, May 13, 1901, No.  296, printed label Canadian Mosses, John Macoun, coll., det. N. C.  Kindberg, distributed by Natnl. Herb. of Canada (US) .

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Punky log, with Hypnum lindbergii in snow melt area in boulder field. With R. H. Zander

P. M. Eckel 631285 April 5, 1985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Soil, shaded embankment top, shore; with Amblyst. varium, Thuidium delicat., Anomodon P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

USA: New York. Goat Island, M. F. Gunning, May, 1872 (US), c. fr. 

 

USA: Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton [glued to cards] [NYS].

 

USA: Whirlpool St. at the RR Bridge, under over-pass, upper path along rim of gorge along dolomite caprock, soil at tree base. P.M.Eckel with R. Zander 731185 March 9, 1985 (BUF).

USA: Goat Island, Terrapin Point overlooking the Horseshoe Falls, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16444 (BUF, NY).

USA: Goat Island, oak-maple forest over limestone; base of Goat Island at bottom of falls on talus slope. W. R. Buck 16359 1 Nov 1988 (BUF, NY).

 

CAN: Dufferin Islands, edge of lawn on low crest above water, with Brachythecium oxycladon, Eckel & Zander, April 4, 1993, No. 9304290, c.fr. (BUF). 

USA: Luna Island ,1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16321 (BUF, NY).

USA: Third Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16430 (BUF, NY).

USA: DeVeaux College woods, hummock, old growth woods, with Amblysteg. serpens, Ceratodon purpureus.  With A. tenax var. spinifolium. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 7, 2000 (BUF).

 

Brachythecium salebrosum (Web. & Mohr) BSG NY CHECK as var. salebrosum

 

CAN: As Hypnum salebrosum Web. & Mohr, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron l895. 

 

CAN: "... on stones in woods, Foster's Flats and Queenston Heights, Ont., May, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 287. 

 

CAN: Near Horseshoe Falls, near bottom of slope, spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses. det. P. M. Eckel  1995 R. H. Zander 3687 Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF).

 

CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats, lower slopes

 

USA: Hypnum salebrosum Hoffm. a Clinton specimen from Devil's Hole dated Oct.  4. herb no. 38448 (BUF). 

 

USA: Niagara River Gorge, sides of sheer dolomite cliff, seepage: abundant bryophytes, upper old Rr path near top of gorge by Schoelkopf Museum.   Det. Zander. P. M. Eckel 89386 Sept. 21, L985 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, with weedy vegetation, dolomite boulder extreme east extremity of the island, Eckel May 13, 1998 (BUF).

                                                                                               

USA: Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton [glued to card] [NYS].

USA: Goat Island, south side, flats just west of Three Sisters (Eckel 1990b).

Brachythecium velutinum Bruch & Schimp.

 

"On earth at the bases of trees, Foster's Flats, Niagara River, Ont., May 16th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 288.

 

Brotherella recurvans (Mx.) Fl. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Soil-covered dolomite boulders, abundant. Dupl. With R. H. Zander. P. M. Eckel 83585 April 5, 1985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara Glen on the Niagara River. On low limestone cobbles, shaded moist bottomland. Acer-Tsuga wood. With R.H.Zander P.M.Eckel NF10 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).

 

CAN: Gorge of the Niagara Fiver, Niagara Glen, half way up slope from river, Pot Hole Path, limestone boulder, thin soil. det. P. M. Eckel  1995. R. H. Zander 3727a Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).

 

 Bryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout NY CHECK

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Moist shaded dolomite block. With R. H. Zander. P. M. Eckel 931285 April 5, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). On rock, halfway down to Niagara River, dolomite boulder field. N-facing boulder surface.  Dupl. P.M.Eckel 1574901 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge of the Niagara River, between Devil's Hole and the whirlpool, bottom of W facing slope, soil, base of tree. R.H.Zander 3524a. April 17, 1971 (BUF).

 

Bryhnia novae-angliae (Sull. & Lesq. ex Sull.) Grout

 

CAN: (Welland Co., Bertie Twp.), Navy Island in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. West side, dominant on soil among Oaks. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).

 

Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Chen NY CHECK

 

USA: New York. Niagara Falls. July 18, 1874, as Didymodon rubellus.

Herb. Coe Finch Austin (NY).

 

As Didymodon rubellus Roth. Goat Is., Niagara River, Day 1883.

 

From a letter from Leo Lesquereux to George Clinton, October 16, 1865 (BUF archives): "I would like to see a true Didymodon luridus from the falls. Trichostomum

(Didymodon) rigidulum Smith. has been found there by Drummond and myself on

stones near the base of the falls, Canada side; but D. luridus is still

unknown or not discovered for America. Though the fruit of your Didymodon

is not ripe, I am pretty sure that it is the D. rubellus."

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

As Didymodon rubellus, Macoun cited a specimen from Niagara Falls, Ontario (p. 44, 1892).

 

A specimen from NY determined as Barbula convoluta was determined by R. Zander (1996) to be Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum mixed with Gymnostomum aeruginosum. The plants were collected at "Niagara Falls" by Wolle in 1873. There is a packet with Wolle's autograph on it, and the packet was constructed out of the fragment of a letter, presumably to Wolle, by Eugene A. Rau; the letter is unreadable due to its fragmentary nature.

 

USA: First Sister Island, western half, on dolomite boulders with Fissidens taxifolius, Weisia controversa, Carex eburnea, 87312, Sept. 12, 1986 (BUF); 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16423 (NY);  First Sister Island, eastern half,  2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16414 (BUF, NY);  First of the Three Sisters Islands just S of Goat Island in the Niagara River. West end, dolomite boulder, w. Tortella tortuosa, Timmia megapolitana, Anomodon rostratus, etc. P. M. Eckel 880722 July 8, 1987 (BUF).

 

USA: Zander, Ongiara, lower slopes

USA: DeVeaux (Whirlpool) steps down calcareous gorge face, moist shaded wooded bottom above Niagara riverbank, moist boulders, with Gymnostomum recurvirostrum, P. M. Eckel Oct. 4, 1991 (BUF).

USA: Ongiara Gorge of Niagara River, bottom of W facing slope, between Devil's Hole and the Whirlpool, soil over boulders, wet area.R.H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF).

 

Bryum argenteum Hedw. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats upper path on cliff face. New Ont. dist. record, unicate, CANM.

 

USA: Eckel 531185, upper rim by lower Arch Bridge.

 

USA: Eckel 1260386 Devil's Hole upper slopes.

 

USA: Zander 8510281 at Niagara Falls, on Goat Island, just S of Three Sisters Islands bridge, Oct. 23, 1985 (BUF); Goat Island on the Niagara River, dolomite ballast, SE end, with Barbula unguiculata, Didymodon tophaceus, Funaria hygrometrica, & Bryum sp.  P. M. Eckel 880723 June 4, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island on the Niagara River. Dolomite ballast, southeast end, just east of the Three Sisters Islands. det. R. H. Zander. P. M. Eckel May 22, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: Green Island on the Niagara R., just N of Goat Island. Old dolomite ballast on south side, wet to moist river margin. With Pottia t., Barbula c., Phascum c. P. M. Eckel, Marguerite Eckel 9004159 April 15 1990 (BUF).: spray zone of American Falls, talus, midslope, pathside, thin soil, Zander 3452b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

 

USA: Whirlpool St. at the RR Bridge, under overpass, upper path along rim of gorge along dolomite caprock, industrial midden of cinder and old oil. With Barbula unguiculata. P.M.Eckel with R. Zander 531185 March 9, 1985 (BUF).

USA: Goat Island, east end ballast on island margins (Eckel 1990b).

Bryum caespiticium.Hedw.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895

 

As Bryum synoico‑caespiticium C. M. & Kindb. in Mac. & Kindb. "On earth by Niagara River, above the Suspension Bridge, Ont., May 18th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 249.

 

USA: Goat Island, oak-maple forest overlimestone; Luna Island. W. R. Buck 164325 1 Nov 88 (BUF, NY).

 

Bryum capillare Hedw. NY CHECK (as var. flacidum q.v.)

 

CAN: "Quite common on the bases of trees in woods, Niagara Falls, May, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 249.

 

USA: Whirlpool St. by the RR Bridge under the park way overpass, along path along dolomite caprock. With Orthotrichum anomalum, Leskea polycarpa, Amblystebium varium. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 53895 March 9, 1985 (BUF); 131585 (BUF) Eckel, l986; (as var. flaccidum) By the RR Bridge under the Robert Moses Pkwy overpass, upper path along the dolomite caprock of the gorge, rather open. R.H. Zander 131585 Mar 16, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Devil's Hole by the Power Authority. Niagara River. Upper slopes, calcareous rocks, shales with Eurhynchium pulchellum. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 1131685 March 16, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: [var. flaccidum] Devil's Hole, near bottom with Entodon seductrix, Grimmia alpicola,  Bryhnia graminicolor, May 21, 1988, Eckel No. 9303181 (BUF).

USA: [var. flaccidum] Goat Island, Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16441 (BUF, NY).

USA: Zander, at top of talus slope at base of Goat Island, near spray zone of Horseshoe Falls, on rotting wood, R. Zander 9010052, Oct. 5, 1990 (BUF). 

 

USA: Gorge of Niagara River, near the American Falls by Prospect Point, near river, thin soil, crevices of limestone boulder. det. P. M. Eckel  1995 R. H. Zander 3741 Sept. 30, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring); P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF); with Ceratodon purpureus.

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Boulder field. Base of dolomite block, shaded woodland, with Didymodon rigidulus, Bryum capillare. P.M.Eckel 129486 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: (As var. flaccidum) USA: Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16316 (BUF, NY), 16320 (BUF, NY).

USA: var. flaccidum. USA: First Sister Island, western half, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16418 (BUF, NY). 

USA: Bath Island in the Niagara River just N of Goat Island. Generally disturbed area of lawns, base of Ash, river's edge. With Amblystegium tenax. P.M. Eckel May 26, 1988 (BUF).

 

Bryum lisae var. cuspidatum (BSG) Marg.

 

As Bryum creberrimum Tayl. NY CHECK

 

USA: Suspension Bridge (now City of Niagara Falls by the Lower Arch Bridge) (as Bryum bimum) archived letter BUF from Charles Peck to George Clinton (collector, from Clinton's  trip May 11, 1867 noted in Clinton's journal)

 

USA: As Bryum bimum Schreb. Niagara Falls, Day 1883.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: As Bryum intermedium (of American authors in Crum et al. 1973), Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Shallow pockets in eroded dolomite boulders, moist, toward the flatter surfaces. With R. H. Zander. Boulder field. P. M. Eckel 2031185 April 5, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island State Park in the Niagara River, dolomite substrates. Base of the island on rocks. P. M. Eckel 9302095 July 28, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: Eckel 1922386 caprock between steps and Whirlpool

 

USA: boulder field, Whirlpool steps, halfway down, with Anomodon viticulosus, Campylium chrysophyllum, Tortella tortuosa, Gymnostomum aeruginosum, Encalypta procera, Plagiopus oederiana, Mnium thomsonii, Marchantia polymorpha, May 6, 1987, Eckel 9302092e (BUF).

 

CAN: Queenston, Ont. on rocks (as Bryum intermedium (Hedw.) Brid. Exsiccat "Canadian Mosses" no. 136, John Macoun, coll., Dr. N. C. Kindberg, det. (US).

 

USA: Goat Island State Park in the Niagara River, dolomite substrates; base of the island on rock, July 28, 1988 P. M. Eckel no. 9302095 (BUF); dolomite ballast, open eastern end of Goat Island, south side. Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum, Barbula unguiculata. Synoicous. P.M. Eckel June 4, 1988 (BUF).

USA: Goat Island, east end ballast on island margins (Eckel 1990b).

Bryum pallescens Schleich. ex Schwaegr.

 

NY: river's edge, Niagara River gorge, bottom of Schoelkopf Museum trail, "Cantilever Gorge," on bank of cement and scrap nails. R. Zander No. 3780, Oct. 6, 1971. Plants synoicous/cladautoidous, much branched, not rosulate. ver. J. Shaw.   2005 Rare Plant Species List: S1.

 

Bryum rubens Mitt.

 

USA: Eckel & Eckel, Green Island, old dolomite ballast on S side, wet to

moist river margin. With Pottia truncata, Phascum cuspidatum, Amblystegium tenax. P M Eckel, Marguerite P Eckel 9004156 April 15 1990 (BUF, Ithaca College, herb. A. C. Crundwell).

 

This species, like Physcomitrium turbinatum near the cataracts on both sides of the river, and Didymodon australasiae var. umbrosus found lower in the river on ledges above the talus slopes of the gorge, is probably an interesting contribution by tourist movements and horticultural treatments (Eckel & Shaw, 1991).

 

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) Gaertn., Meyer & Sherb. NY CHECK as var. pseudotriquetrum

 

USA: New York. Niagara Falls. Derb. Coe Finch Austin, July 18, 1879 (NY).

 

USA: New York. Goat Island, F. Wolle, coll. July 25, 1872 [US, ex herb. Ch. Mohr].

 

CAN: Zander, Horseshoe, lower slopes

 

CAN: Upper Great Gorge of Niagara River, below Table Rock House, near Horseshoe Falls, spray zone, Zander No. 3692 (BUF), Sept. 7, 1971.

 

USA: Goat Island, Eckel 86121702 (BUF).

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring), P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF)

 

As Bryum bimum, Schreber. "... on Drummond Island, Niagara Falls, Ont., 1901.  (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 248. 

 

Bryum tortifolium Funck ex Brid.

 

Bryum cyclophyllum (Schwaegr.) BSG

 

Peck (1866) wrote that this species grew in "Wet places. Caledonia creek [sic] at Green's, where it was found in 1865 bty G. W. Clinton, the first to discover it in this country."

 

A specimen from NY [North American Commes, Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa., "Bryum cyclophyllum G.H. leg. Judge Clinton" not in Clinton's handwriting was identified as B. cyclophyllum, not B. turbinatum, as annotated on the sheet (See Grout, Moss Flora Vol. II under Bryum) ‑ annot. Zander.

 

In Crum & Anderson p. 553. ..."Lesquereux and James cited a Clinton collection of B. cyclophyllum from "stones wet by spray, at Niagara Falls: ‑ in other words, at or near Buffalo ‑ as well as a Pennsylvania collection..." Bryum clintonii Aust., Bot. Gaz. 1:30, 1876.

 

"On stones wet by spray, at Niagara Falls (G. W. Clinton)... (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 237).

 

CAN: As Bryum cyclophyllum (Schwaegr.) BSG "On stones wet with spray, Niagara Falls. (Clinton)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 131. 

 

Bryum turbinatum (Hedw.) Turn. NY CHECK

 

USA: "Humectated rocks. Niagara Falls; very rare; July, Lesqx." (Peck 1866).

 

USA: Musci Boreali Americani, ed. 1. No. 190. Hab. ad rupes irroratas Niagarae; etiam in scaturiginosis Minnesotae (NY). 

 

USA: Musci Boreali Americani, ed 2. No. 287. Hab. ad rupes irroratas Niagarae; etiam in scaturiginosis Minnesotae (NY). 

 

As Bryum turbinatum Hedw. Very rare. "Wet rocks, below Niagara Falls," Sullivant. Day 1883

 

"Wet rocks, Niagara Falls ..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 238‑239). Crum & Anderson, Vol. 1 p. 551:"Apparently limited to wet, calcareous soil near streams or waterfalls. Probably not occurring in our range, perhaps not even in North America. A specimen from Belleville, Ontario, collected by John Macoun (MICH), and Sullivant and Lesquereux's Musci Boreali‑Americani (ed.1) no. 190 and (ed. 2) no. 287 ‑ "ad rupes irroratas Niagarae: etiam in scaturiginosis Minnesotae" ‑ should be viewed with suspicion in light of the fact that others of Macoun's Belleville collections and also some of Sullivant and Lesquereux's exsiccati seem to be mislabeled, some of them being surely western in origin."

 

Callicladium haldanianum (Grev.) Crum  NY CHECK

 

CAN: As Hypnum chrysophyllum Brid, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron, 1895.

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River: 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. mixed with Mnium cuspidatum, c.fr.; log, forest interior. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF).

                                                                                                           

USA: Artpark, Eckel & Eckel 151486 (BUF), (Eckel, l986b).

 

Calliergonella cuspidata (Hedw.) Loeske

 

"A species of highly calcareous habitats in the North, less so southward, on wet humus in open sedgy places, in wet meadows and swales beside eutrophic lakes, sometimes among sedges at the outer margins of pioneering bog mats," Crum & Anderson 1981.

 

USA: Eckel, base of Goat Island.

 

USA: base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16353 (BUF, NY), 16358 (NY).

USA: Goat Island, Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16445 (BUF, NY).

Campylium chrysophyllum (Brid.) J. Lange NY CHECK

 

CAN: As Hypnum chrysophyllum Brid., Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron, 1895.

 

USA: Zander, Devil's Hole lower, Zander 3512b (BUF); Gorge of Niagara River, below Devil's Hole, at bottom of W. facing slope, on rock wall, soil. R.H. Zander 3511 17 Apr. 1971 (BUF, NYS) ; Devil's Hole, tope of the gorge of the Niagara River just N of City of Niagara Falls line. Soil at lawn edge over dolomite rock, Barbula unguiculata, Fissidens taxifolius. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander 9104012 March 16, 1990 (BUF).

 

USA: boulder field, halfway down Whirlpool steps, with Anomodon viticulosus, Bryum lisae var. cuspidatum, Tortella tortuosa, Gymnostomum aeruginosum, Encalypta procera, Plagipus oederiana, Mnium thomsonii, Marchantia polymorpha, May 6, 1987, Eckel No. 9302092a (BUF).

 

USA: Base talus slope, Whirlpool Steps above the Whirlpool (North of it).

w. R. Zander P. M. Eckel 880931 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., northern tip of the island, Buckhorn Island State Park and sanctuary, moist clay, SW end of park near shoreline, calcareous substrates. With Fissidens taxifolius, Ephemerum crassinervium; P. M. Eckel, Oct. 1, 1997.

USA: base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16360 (BUF, NY).

CAN: Dufferin Islands. Soil at base of living tree touching muck, moist habitat on margin of small pond with Typha and Lemna sp. With R.H. Zander. P.M.Eckel 83NF1 June 15, 1983 (BUF).

 

USA: Second Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16396 (BUF, NY).

 

USA:  Lewiston twp., crest of gorge overlooking north terminus of Niagara River gorge, old growth Oak-Hickory woods, with Rhynchostegium serrulatum, Weissia controversa, Eckel, June 9, 1995.

 

Campylium hispidulum (Brid.) Mitt. NY CHECK

 

USA: Eckel 1422386 between step & Whirlpool, halfway up talus slope (BUF); (Eckel, l986b).

 

USA: Erie Co.: Grand Island on punky oak log in thicket by Thruway. Alvin Rd., Grand Island, Niagara River. Ann Glowny 1851 12-13-71 (BUF).

 

Campylium radicale (P.‑Beauv.) Grout

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island, wet, Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring);  P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF).

 

Possibly confused with Drepanocladus revolvens, which has leaves falcate as well as secund, whereas those of this species are only falcate, but in various directions. C. radicale has a stem section with thick‑walled outer cells whereas that of D. revolvens is thin‑walled and enlarged. C. radicale is distant on the stem, perhaps to C. polygamum as Amblystegium juratzkanum is to A. serpens.

 

Campylium stellatum (Hedw.) C. Jens. var. stellatum

 

Crum & Anderson, p. 949: "wet soil or humus in open, calcareous wetlands, such as rich fens, meadows, roadside ditches, and seepy margins of springs; in the mountains of the Southeast, in more acidic situations, often in the spray of waterfalls."

 

Hypnum stellatum Schreb. ex Hedw.

 

USA: Niagara Falls, A. T. Beals, No. 482, Aug. 26, 1917 (NYS)

 

USA: Eckel base Goat Island, American Falls spray zone. with Cratoneuron filicinum.

USA: base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16362 (BUF, NY).

CAN: As Hypnum stellatum Hedw., Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

Campylopus flexuosus (Hedw.) Brid.

 

Dicranum palustre La Pyl. in Brid.

 

As Dicranum palustre Brid. Rare. Whirlpool, Niagara River, American side, Day 1883. Probably a misspelling. Only noted for British Columbia in Canada, [not in Crum & Anderson], not included in the New York State flora by Ketchledge (1980).

 

Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

USA: Niagara County, Moss on rotten railroad tie, vicinity Lewiston, Clifford A. LaMere No. 399, April 21, 1962 (NYS).

 

CAN: Wooded slopes overlooking the Horseshoe Falls. In spray, lawn, base of hill. Attenuate form. with Barbula unguiculata. P. M. Eckel 880714 April 23, 1988 (BUF).

 

CAN: Gorge of Niagara River, "First Gorge", road into gorge from Queenston, bottom slope, crack in road. R. H. Zander 3715 Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, northeast side, shore, fallen tree on beach, bark on trunk. With Entodon seductrix, Leskea polycarpa. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island, 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just S of Niagara Falls; west side, bark base of tree; Oak woodland. Dicranum montanum. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).

 

USA: Eckel, upper path RR Bridge.

 

USA: seep base caprock between steps&Whirlpool Eckel 1822386

USA: spray zone of American Falls, talus, midslope, pathside, thin soil, Zander 3452a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF), Zander 3454c, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

USA: Lewiston. Artpark, alvar on ledges at top of embankment of Niagara River beside stone piers of old Suspension Bridge, Syntrichia ruralis, Sax-

ifraga virginiensis, Rumex acetosella. P. M. Eckel s.n. May 24, 2002 (BUF).

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park.

 NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring); P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, east end ballast on island margins (Eckel 1990b); Goat Island on the Niagara River. North side just E of the pedestrian bridge, base of Pinus strobus. P.M. Eckel 881113 Sept. 23, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island on the Niagara River. Dolomite ballast, southeast end, just east of the Three Sisters Islands. P. M. Eckel May 22, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island on the Niagara River. North slope, shore facing Luna Island. P. M. Eckel May 2, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island on thin soil of bridge concrete support. RH Zander 4127 June 26. 1975 (BUF); Central Acer-Fraxinus mixed old woods, soil, west end of woods in spray zone of the Horseshoe Falls. Sandy loam. Dolomite Basement. PM Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel 69192 April 15, 1990 (BUF).

 

USA: oak-maple forest over limestone. First Sister Island, western half, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16337 (BUF, NY).

 

USA: oak-maple forest over lime stone . Second Sister Island, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16365 (BUF, NY), 16378 (BUF, NY); Second of the Three Sisters Islands in the Niagara River just S of Goat Island. Muck alluvium, west end, with Didymodon fallax, humectated tree roots. P.M. Eckel 881106 Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: Lewiston. Devil's Hole Near The Top On Dolomite Or Lime-Stone Talus, Rather Arid Situation, With Dryopteris Marginalis, Fissidens Taxifolius,

Mnium Marginatum. P. Eckel 721186 March 16, L985 (BUF).

 

Erie Co. Grand Island. Marshy waste-land soil on w. side of island. Niagara River. Ann Glowny 1266 3-28-67 (BUF).

 

Climacium americanum Brid.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895

 

"Roundhouse woods, near Niagara Falls, Ont., May 20th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 278. 

 

CAN: Niagara Falls. On soil, in depression, mixed hardwood stand. City of Niagara Falls. Howard Crum 18 October 4, 1964 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Muck soil, with Helodium paludosum. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River: 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. Moist soil; Red Maple swamp. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF); .), Navy Island in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 9*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. S end, wet soil, Ulmus americana forest. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF)..

 

 Conardia compacta (C.Muell.) Robins.

2005 Rare Plant Status List. Bryophytes List  globally G3G5 S1

 

Amblystegium compactum (C. Muell.) Aust.

 

Amblystegium dissitifolium Kindb. in Mac. & Kindb.

 

Amblystebium subcompactum, C. Muell. & Kindb. in Mac. & Kindb.

 

Rhynchostegiella compacta (C.Muell.) Loeske   

 

CAN: As Amblystegium dissitifolium,"On flat limestone rocks which receive the dripping of water at the falls on the rivers, flowing into the head of Owen Sound Bay; in similar situations near the Whirlpool, Niagara Falls, Sept. 24th, 1890. (Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 220‑221. 

 

CAN: As Amblystebium subcompactum, "... on wet rocks near the Whirlpool, Niagara Falls. (Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p.221.

 

USA: Devil's Upper Zander 3507a (BUF), Eckel l986.

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge, between the (S) Whirlpool and the stone steps (N) descending to the Niagara River. Seepage of dolomite caprock, with Didymodon tophaceus, Funaria hygrometrica. P.M.Eckel 125386 Mar. 21, l986 (BUF).

 

Cratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) Spruce NY CHECK

 

CAN: "On rocks by springs, Niagara River, May, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 307. 

 

USA: Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton (NYS) [glued on a card].

 

USA: Niagara Falls, very abundant in ascending masses on limestone, A. T. Beals, August 26, 1917 (NYS)

 

CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats, lower slopes.

 

CAN: Zander, Horseshoe, lower spray zone.

 

CAN: Upper Great Gorge of Niagara River, below Table Rock House, near Horseshoe Falls, rocks, spray zone, Zander No 3684 (BUF), Sept. 7, 1971.

 

CAN: Gorge of Niagara River, "First Gorge", road into gorge from Queenston, bottom slope, riverside, below Lewiston Bridge, rock in H2O. det. P. M. Eckel  1995 R. H. Zander 3718 Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: Specht & McCandless, Prospect, lower slopes

 

USA: Eckel 202286, between steps and Whirlpool, base of caprock.

USA: Goat Island. just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, sandstone wall, Zander 3495a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF), talus slope, dripping area, rocks, with Didymodon tophaceus. Zander 3493b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); foot of Goat Island. spray area of American Falls, talus, wet rocks, Zander 3443a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF), soil, trailside, Zander 3454b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); foot of Goat Island. spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river, thin soil, base of falls, Zander 3472, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); base of island, at bottom of falls on talus slope. 1 Nov. 1988, William R. Buck 16351 (BUF, NY), 16355 (BUF, NY), 16361 (BUF, NY); base of Goat Island, spray area of American Falls, talus, wet rocks, with Amblystegium varium, Zander 3442, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

USA: Goat Island, Terrapin Point, Overlooking Horseshoe Falls. William R Buck 16447 2 Nov. 1988 (BUF, NY).

 

USA: Goat Island, south side, flats just west of Three Sisters, just west of Three Sisters, island margin of Cornus stolonifera (Eckel 1990b), also P. M. Eckel June 4, 198 (BUF).

 

USA: Second Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16408 (BUF, NY).

 

USA: Niagara River Gorge, Sides Of Sheer Dolomite Cliff, Seepage: Abundant Bryophytes, Upper Old Rr Path Near Top Of Gorge By Schoelkopf Museum. Det. Zander. P. M. Eckel 59386 Sept. 21, L985 (BUF).

 

USA: Lewiston. shore of the Niagara River ca. 3 lots north of N boundary Artpark, steep slope with Solidago ohioensis, S. canadensis, S. graminifol., Didymodon tophaceus, sheet seepage. P. M. Eckel with R. H. Zander s.n. Sept. 18, 2001 (BUF).

 

Ctenidium molluscum (Hedw.) Mitt.

 

USA: Erie Co. Grand Island. On soil in woods, west side of Grand Island.

Niagara River. Ann Glowny 1605 3-28-67 (BUF).

 

Desmatodon obtusifolius (Schwaegr.) Schimp.

 2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List S2

 

USA: (as Desmatodon arenaceus Sull. and Lesq.) "Stones; Devil's Hole … G. W. Clinton. Rare." (Peck 1866).

                                                                                               

(As Desmatodon arenaceus Sull. and Lesq.)  Rare. Devil's Hole, Niagara River; Foster's Flat, Niagara River..., Charles Peck in Day 1888.

 

Desmatodon porteri James ex Aust. NY CHECK  2005 Rare Plant Status Bryophyte List Ge(?) [sic]  S1

 

USA: "On rocks, … "Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton." "Musci Appalachiani: tickets of specimens of mosses collected mostly in the eastern part of North America"  number 123. 1870.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.   

 

USA: Devil's Hole & Caledonia (New York), G. W. Clinton [NYS, det. R. H. Zander, 1992]

 

Macoun (p. 47, 1892) cited a specimen of Desmatodon Porteri collected by G. W. Clinton at Niagara Falls, Ontario.

 

"Niagara Falls (G. W. Clinton)." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p.112), no country cited. 

 

"On flat limestone rocks, Foster's Flats, Niagara River, May 11th, 1901.  (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 211. 

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Boulder field. Base of dolomite block, shaded woodland, with Hymenostylium recurvirostrum. P.M.Eckel 874901 April 11, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Rather frequent in solution cavities in dolomite boulder. With Tortella tortuosa, Hyophila involuta. P. M. Eckel 331285 April 5, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Moist dolomite boulder, N-facing half way up the gorge wall, with Didymodon rigidulus, Hymenostylium recurvirostrum. P. M. Eckel 43585 April 5, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Lewiston. Devil's Hole Gorge of Niagara River, below Devil's Hole, bottom of W facing slope, rock. With Didymodon rigidulus. R.H.Zander 3509a April 17, 1971 (BUF); Devil's Hole Gorge of Niagara River, Devil's Hole, half way up, limestone. R.H.Zander 4250 Sept. 12, 1975 (BUF).

 

USA: Devil's Hole, Eckel.

 

USA: Devil's Hole lower Zander 35091, Zander 4250 (BUF); Eckel, l986.

 

 

Dichodontium pellucidum (Hedw.) Schimp. NY CHECK

 

USA: New York. in Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant et L. 

 

Lesquereux, ed 2. No. 150, "Trichostomum rigidulum." This species is mixed with Didymodon tophaceus in the packet no. 150 (NY).

 

Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shore; top of embankment, with Ditrichum pallidum. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

USA: Second Sister Island, west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16368 (BUF, NY).

USA: Erie Co.:  Grand Island. Marshy Elm woods on south end of Grand Island

Niagara River. On soil in thicket. Ann Glowny 1244 4-20-67 [1967] (BUF).

 

[Dicranella rufescens (With.) Schimp.

 

USA: Erie Co. Grand Island. Edge of Niagara River. by parking area past Love Rd. Ann Glowny 11555 30 May 1973 (BUF).]

 

Dicranella varia (Hedw.) Schimp.

 

USA: Devil's Hole, upper slopes, Eckel 231585 (BUF, NYS); Eckel, l986.

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge, between the (S) Whirlpool and the stone steps (N) descending to the Niagara River. With Fissidens bryoides. P.M.Eckel 1122386 Mar. 21, l986 (BUF).

 

USA: Whirlpool State Park, shallow calcareous soil over dolomitic bedrock, in poor lawn below canopy of Quercus rubra, Acer saccharum, Ostrya virginiana. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 29, 2001 (BUF).

 

CAN: Base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls. In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with  Fissidens taxifolius, Amblystegium varium, Weissia brachycarpa, Physcomitrium pyriforme, May 27, 1991, Eckel 9302250D (BUF). 

 

Dicranum bonjeanii De Not. ex Lisa

 

"On earth in woods, Queenston Heights, Ont., May 11th, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 200.

 

Dicranum flagellare Hedw.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River: 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. Log, forest interior, codominant on logs with Hypnum lindbergii. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island, W side; fallen log; with Dicranum montanum, Hypnum imponens, Ptilidium pulchellum. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).

 

Dicranum fulvum Hook.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895 as "fuloum" Hook.

 

Dicranum fuscescens Turn.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Fallen log; embankment; with Hypnum imponens. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

[USA. Erie Co. Grand Island. Wet woods, southern end of island, in Niagara R. Substrate not noted. Ann Glowny 1843 4-13-67 [1967] (BUF).

 

Dicranum montanum Hedw. NY CHECK as vicinity approximate.

 

USA: Goat Island, Niagara Falls, Lesqux. [Lesquereux] (Peck 1866).

 

USA: Dicranum montanum "Goat Is., Niagara Falls, Lesquereux," Sullivant, Day 1883

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

USA: Niagara Falls. Lesq. & Mohr, July, 1866, Herb. Charles Mohr, US National Herbarium presented in 1901 (US).

 

USA: Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant and L. Lesquereux MDCCCLVI, Hab. in truncis emortuis prope Niagarae cataractam. ed.1, No. 55 (NY). 

 

USA: Musci Boreali Americani W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, second edition, 1865, No. 71. Hab. in truncis emortuis prope Niagarae cataractam; etiam per montes Novaeboracenses sat frequens. no. 71 (NY) (US). 

 

CAN: Navy Island, 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just S of Niagara Falls; west side, bark base of tree; Oak woodland. Ceratodon, Amblysteg. trichop. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. W side; fallen log; with Dicranum flagellare, Hypnum imponens, Ptilidium pulchellum. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).

 

USA: Artpark, Eckel 14586.

 

Dicranum polysetum Sw.

 

USA: New York. Whirlpool, Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton [probably in the old woods above the point on the high bank] [NYS, as Dicranum bonjeanii]. Not reported by Ketchledge (1980) for the study area (his section 5), this specimen is distinct from bonjeanii by its strongly serrate leaf margins, costa with two distinct ridge‑like elevations on the back and the lower margins in some leaves recurved, densely tomentose and the leaves lanceolate.

 

Dicranum scoparium Hedw.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shore, top of embankment. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

Dicranum viride (Sull. & Lesq.ex Sull.) Lindb., NY CHECK

 

Didymodon australasiae var. umbrosus (C. Müll.) Zander NY CHECK NEW

 

NEW TO FLORA; not in 2005 Rare Plant Status List.

 

See Eckel, P. M.1986.  Didymodon australasiae var. umbrosus (Musci: Pottiaceae) new to eastern North America.  Bryologist 89: 70-72.

 

USA: City Niagara Falls. Whirlpool Street at the Railroad Bridge beneathe Robert Moses Parkway overpass. Upper path along rim of gorge along dolomite cap. With Barbula unguiculata, Hymenostylium recv. P.M.Eckel c. R.H.Zander 231385 Mar. 9, l985 (BUF, US).

 

USA: City of Niagara Falls, Whirlpool St. at Lower Arch (R.R.) Bridge, S on upper path below rim of gorge, dolomite caprock, vertical rock wall, thin soil in moist fine cracks. R. H. Zander & P. M. Eckel 8612123 Dec. 12, 1986 (BUF).

 

Didymodon johansenii (Williams) Crum in sched., Nov. 1968  A doubtful record.

 

Barbula johansenii Williams) c. fr. Segregated from Drummond's Musci Amer. (Rocky Mts.) 120, as Didymodon trifarium (= D. tophaceus!), "about the Falls of Niagara" but probably western in origin. This tuft was unmixed with the D. tophaceus." Specimens at BUF and MICH.

 

Didymodon luridus sensu American authors probably = D. tophaceus Hornsch. Rare, Niagara Falls, on a dry rock near the shore, from one‑eighth to one‑fourth of a mile below the American staircase. "This fine species was found by Drummond in 1818 at Niagara Falls; but had not been detected since that time, until 1865, when it was re‑discovered as shown above." C.H.Peck, in Reg. Rep., 1866. Day 1883, Cameron 1895.  = Didymodon vinealis var. luridus. Zander says it grows in the Devil's Hole, has collected it and it all needs to be reidentified, perhaps this is D. reedii, D. trifarius or D. tophaceus. Not in Crum & Anderson 1981.

 

Sand Lake, Aug. 14th /65   [letter to George W. Clinton of Buffalo, N.Y. 1865]

My Dear Sir.

    Your of the 10th inst. is received. Of the mosses you send "No 1 Dry

rock Niagara Falls" is especially interesting. At first sight it appears

much like small Barbula unguiculata but it is not that species. I think it

is Didymodon luridus but the fruit is yet so young I can not get the

character derived from the peristome. If you can get some of it say about

Sept. 1st it will remove all doubt. The species is described in the Manual

and said to have been found at Niagara Falls by Drummond, but it is not

given in the Catalogue of the "Musci exsiccata" whence I conclude it is

very scarce and a most desirable acquisition. Please look after it a little

two or three weeks hence. …

 

  Yours truly

  Charles Peck

 

From a letter from Leo Lesquereux to George Clinton, October 16, 1865 (BUF archives): "I would like to see a true Didymodon luridus from the falls. Trichostomum

(Didymodon) rigidulum Smith. has been found there by Drummond and myself on

stones near the base of the falls, Canada side; but D. luridus is still

unknown or not discovered for America. Though the fruit of your Didymodon

is not ripe, I am pretty sure that it is the D. rubellus."

Reported by Charles Peck "Wet rocks. Chittenango Falls. As at Niagara Falls we here find this rare moss associated with Fissidens grandifrons."  in the Report of the Botanist, 26th Annual Report on the State Museum of Natural History, Senate Document no. 109, p. 89 , 1873.

USA: "Niagara Falls, on a dry rock near the shore, one-eighth to one-quarter of a mile below the American staircase, G. W. Clinton. October. This fine species was found by Drummond at Niagara Falls in 1818, but had not been detected since that time until 1865, when it was rediscovered as shown above." (Peck 1866).

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Macoun (p.44, 1892) cited a specimen of Didymodon luridus "About the Falls of Niagara. (Drummond); ... limestone rocks below the Clifton House, Niagara Falls ... (Macoun)."

 

USA: A specimen of "D. luridus" at the Smithsonian (US) from Niagara Falls, 1873, F. Wolle and Watkins Glen, C. F. Wolle has been determined by Zander as Didymodon rigidulus, with gemmae, from Niagara, and Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum from the Glen [Cryptogamic Collection of John B. Leiberg, presented to the United States National Museum, 1914, distributed from the Herbarium of Columbia College by E. G. Britton]. 

 

Didymodon luridus var. cuspidatus Schimp. "Leaves cuspidate by the excurrent nerve. Hab. Niagara Falls (Drummond, Clinton) ..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, pp.104‑105).

 

Didymodon rigidicaulis (C. Muell.) Saito

 

Didymodon fallax. var. reflexus (Brid.) Zand.

 

USA: Musci Boreali‑Americani. No. 102, ed. 1 Hab. ad Niagarae fluminis rupes humidas (as Trichostomum rigidulum), det. Zander, but Crum & Anderson list No. 102 as Didymodon rigulus Hedw. (the specimen they saw) (NY). 

 

USA: New York, Niagara Falls "2", leg. G. W. Clinton (NYS) [det. R. Zander, 1992].

 

USA: Niagara Falls, "Rocks", G. W. Clinton [glued to card] (NYS)

 

USA: Eckel 1522386 Between steps & Whirlpool seep base caprock

 

 

Didymodon rigidulus Hedw. (VAR?) NY CHECK

 

From a letter from Leo Lesquereux to George Clinton, October 16, 1865 (BUF archives): "I would like to see a true Didymodon luridus from the falls. Trichostomum

(Didymodon) rigidulum Smith. has been found there by Drummond and myself on

stones near the base of the falls, Canada side; but D. luridus is still

unknown or not discovered for America. Though the fruit of your Didymodon

is not ripe, I am pretty sure that it is the D. rubellus."

 

2005 Rare Plant Status Bryophyte List. S3

 

USA: Niagara Falls, July 18th, 1874, Herb. Coe Finch Austin, var. rigidulus. Rev. Fr. Wolle, coll. (as Didymodon luridus) (NY).

 

USA: Niagara Falls, ex coll. G. W. Clinton (as D. luridus var.  rigidulus (NY). Also another specimen (NY), same early and later det., and yet another (NY), and another (sent by E. C. Howe, herb. to NY). 

 

USA: Niagara Falls. var. rigidulus. G. W. Clinton, coll., ex coll. Charles H. Peck (NY) Perhaps it is this specimen referred to in Peck's publication. See Grout & Paris. 

 

CAN: Hab. var. rigidulus (with propagula). About the Falls of Niagara. No. 120. Drummond, Musci Americani (as Didymodon trifarium, Sw.) (NY). 

 

Another specimen of No. 120 is the var. icmadophilus (Schimp. ex M.) Zand. which is characteristic of the western states (NY). Yet another is Didymodon tophaceus (NY), all determined by R. Zander.

 

USA: New York (as Didymodon luridus, Hornsch. [according, apparantly, to Peck] and D. trifarius (Hedw.) Brid.) var. rigidulus, leg. G. W. Clinton (NYS, det. R.  Zander, 1992). 

 

USA: Gorge of Niagara River at Devil's Hole, waterfall, limestone.

R.H. Zander Sept. 12, 1975 (BUF); Devil's Hole Gorge of Niagara River, below Devil's Hole, bottom of W facing slope, rock. R.H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Boulder field. Base of dolomite block, shaded woodland, with Homomallium adnatum and Bryum capillare. P.M.Eckel 825086 April 11, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). On rock, halfway down to Niagara River, dolomite boulder field. With Tortula mucronifolia, Fissidens bryoides. P.M.Eckel 1174901 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Foster's Flats, lower slopes, Eckel 726386 (BUF)

 

CAN: Foster's Flats, halfway down var. rigidulus c.fr. Eckel 722386 .

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge, between the (S) Whirlpool and the stone steps (N) descending to the Niagara River. Talus slope, bottom, NW facing. With Pottia truncata var. intermedia. P.M.Eckel 722386 Mar. 21, l986 (BUF).

 

USA: Base of talus slope, Whirlpool Steps, N of the Whirlpool, Ongiara Gorge. Globose brood bodies, with Platydictya confervoides. w. R. Zander . P. M. Eckel 880925 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: Whirlpool Street at the RR Bridge, sub over pass, upper path along dolomite caprock. Seepage in vertical dolomite cliff. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 831685 March 9, 1985 (BUF); Whirlpool St. at Lower Arch (R.R.) Bridge, upper path just below rim of gorge, dolomite caprock, vertical rock wall, thin soil in moist fine cracks. R. H. Zander & P. M. Eckel 8612122 Dec. 12, 1986 (BUF).

 

USA: Devil's Hole, upper slopes, Eckel 726386

 

USA: Between Devil and Whirlpool steps, Eckel 514486

 

Eckel 86122102 is perhaps var. gracilis, and falls within the description of Barbula acuta var. bescherellii, cf. Crum & Anderson 1981, p. 344, cf. Crum, Bryologist 72: 241, l969.

USA: Third Sister Island, west end, 2 Nov. 1988 Buck 16438 (BUF, NY).

Didymodon rigidulus var. gracilis (Schleich. ex Hook. & Grev.) Zand.

USA: By lower arch RR bridge, below Robt. Moses Pkwy. Dolomite caprock, top of talus, path along top of gorge, soil on rock ledges. w. R. Zander.*=Barb. acuta v. bescherellii. P.M.Eckel 8706064 Dec. 21, l986 (BUF).

 

Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa NY CHECK

 

2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List. S3.

 

Coe Finch Austin's publication of the name "Didymodon? [sic] diversifolius"  in the "Musci Appalachiani: tickets of specimens of mosses collected mostly in the eastern part of North America"  number 115. 1870 is D. tophaceus according to R. van der Wijk, W. D. Margadant and P. A. Florschütz (1962).  The two syntypes of this species include one near Newville in Herkimer County, New York and the other is "About Niagara Falls, S. T. Olney", giving another type locality to the Niagara Falls area.

 

An interesting label on a sheet for Didymodon tophaceus at NY reads "Slate rocks, under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, N.Y., Brother Leon. July 25, 1927" It is glued to the sheet down from a specimen from the moss herbarium of Eugene A. Rau and it indicates that Brother Leon visited Niagara Falls and ventured on the talus slopes at the river's edge. Slate, of course, is a metamorphic rock, and shale is the slate‑like rock at Niagara. 

 

Macoun (p.47, 1892) cited a specimen collected by Olney for Niagara Falls, presumably Ontario (as Trichostomum tophaceum, Brid.).

 

As Trichostomum tophaceum Brid., "Niagara Falls (Olney), sterile." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 109).

 

[USA?] Hab. Niagara Falls, July 18, 1874, Coe Finch Austin, leg. "

 

USA: Musci Appalachani. Coe Finch Austin, 1870. No. 115 (as D. diversifolius) "About Niagara Falls, S. T. Olney" (NY). 

 

USA: New York, Niagara Falls. S. T. Olney (NY).

 

[USA] Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton, 1865 (NY).

 

USA: New York, Niagara Falls. July 18, 1874, Coe Finch Austin (NY).

 

USA: New York. Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, MDCCCLVI, ed 1. No. 102, as Trichostomum rigidulum. Crum & Anderson (1981) cite this number of the exsiccat as Didymodon rigidulus (det. Zander, 1990), (NY). 

 

USA:  New York. Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, ed 2. No. 150, as Trichostomum rigidulum. Crum & Anderson (1981) cite this number of the exsiccat as Didymodon rigidulus (det. Zander, 1990, with Dichodontium pellucidum), (NY).

 

CAN: limestone cliffs along Niagara River opposite American Falls, in seepage, Welland Co., Howard Crum no. 26, Oct. 5, 1964 UBC (as Hymenostylium recurvirostrum).

 

CAN: Niagara Falls. Near Buffalo. Limestone, wet tufa. Ruprecht Duell no. 130 19.5.1981 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara Falls. Limestone wall of gorge at falls. I Herrnstadt & R Zander 2 Mar 1977 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara River Gorge, Niagara Glen, rock near river, in water of seepage area. R.H. Zander May 26, 1973(BUF).

 

CAN: Eckel & Zander, Foster's Flats, lower slopes

 

USA: Niagara River Gorge, Sides Of Sheer Dolomite Cliff, Seepage: Abundant Bryophytes, Upper Old Rr Path Near Top Of Gorge By Schoelkopf Museum. P. M. Eckel 99386 Sept. 21, L985 (BUF).

 

USA: Eckel, lower Arch Bridge, upper path.

 

USA: Niagara Gorge, Devil's Hole, near top of gorge, seepage. R.H. Zander July 12, 1974 (BUF); Gorge of Niagara River, top gorge, at Devil's Hole, limestone. R.H. Zander Sept. 12, 1975 (BUF).

 

USA: Between steps & Whirlpool seep caprock path, Eckel 421386 BUF.

 

USA: just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, on rubble, talus slope, Zander 3491a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF), dripping area, rocks, Zander 3493, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF).

 

CAN: Gorge of Niagara River, near Horseshoe Falls, near bottom of slope, spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses. det. P. M. Eckel  1995. R. H. Zander 3648b Aug. 10, 1971(BUF); Gorge of Niagara River, near Horseshoe Falls, down road to power house, Lockport Dolomite crevices + Hymenostylium R. H. Zander 3648a Aug. 10, 1971 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara on the Lake. Gorge of Niagara River, "First Gorge" road

into gorge from Queenston, bottom slope, roadside, rock wall, crevices

R. H. Zander 3717 Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: Lewiston (Artpark) in the gorge on mortar of old train wall, with Funaria hygrometrica, June 17, 1988, Eckel No. 9303173 B (BUF). 

USA: Goat Island, eastern end ballast, island margin (Eckel 1990b).

USA: Second of the Three Sisters Islands in the Niagara River just S of Goat Island. Muck alluvium, west end, with Didymodon fallax, humectated tree roots. P.M. Eckel 881102 Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).

 

Didymodon vinealis (Brid.) Zand. [A doubtful record]

 

As Barbula vinealis Braun.  "On rocks, near the Whirlpool, Niagara Falls,

 

Ontario: (Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 263. 

 

Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe

 

CAN: Ontario, on earth, at Niagara, Ont. J. M. Macoun, No. 95, 17/5/01, May 17, 1901 (NYS) [young fruit]

 

CAN: "In woods near Niagara Falls, Ont., June 27th, 1892. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 209.

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shore, top of embankment, with Dicranella heteromalla. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

Drepanocladus aduncus  (Hedw.) Warnst.

 

= Hypnum aduncum Hedw.

 

note the var. giganteum BSG is Drepanocladus sendtneri (Schimp.) Warnst.

 

USA: (As Hypnum aduncum Hedw. var. giganteum, Bryol. Europ.) " Big Bay, Strawberry Island, growing in water, G. W. Clinton." (Paine 1866).

 

USA: (As Hypnum aduncum Hedw.) Niagara Falls. [Pauls] in wood, near Suspension Bridge. D. Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y. (1860-1870) (BUF).

 

USA: Suspension Bridge (now City of Niagara Falls by the Lower Arch Bridge) (as Hypnum aduncum)  archived letter BUF from Charles Peck to George Clinton (collector, from Clinton's  trip May 11, 1867 noted in Clinton's journal)

 

CAN:  (As D. aduncus typicus forma falcatus), Dufferin Islands, Knobloch and Bleekman (1937).

USA: Second Sister Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Wm. R. Buck 16407 (BUF, NY).

Drepanocladus fluitans (Hedw.) Warnst.

CAN: Niagara Falls, near Horseshoe Falls, near bottom of slope, spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses. R. H. Zander 3685 Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF).

 

Drepanocladus revolvens (Sw.) Warnst. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River just S of Niagara Falls, central wet Quercus, Ulmus americana, Acer rubrum woods, with Fissidens taxifolius, Eurhynchum hians, Atrichum undulatum P. M. Eckel s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF).

 

Drepanocladus uncinatus (Hedw.) Warnst.

 

CAN: As Hypnum uncinatum Hedw., Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

Drepanocladus vernicosus (Lindb. ex C. Hartm.) Warnst. NY CHECK

 

USA: Niagara Co., Niagara Falls, among grass, A. T. Beals No. 483 [NYS, dups. at NY]

 

Drummondia prorepens (Hedw.) E. G. Britt.

This species is rare in New York State: 2005 Rare Plant Bryophytes Status List S3.

 

CAN: As Drummondia clavellata Hook. in Drumm., Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

Encalypta procera Bruch NY CHECK

 

USA: (as Encalypta streptocarpa Hedw.) "Niagara Falls." James in Pr. Am. Phil. Soc." (Peck 1866). This species has been excluded from the North American flora (Anderson, L. E., H. A. Crum & W. R. Buck. 1990. List of the Mosses of North America North of Mexico. The Bryologist 93(4), pp. 448-499).

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Protected flats" area facing the river." On wood. Shaded woodland. P.M.Eckel 225086 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

USA: spray area of American Falls, talus, crevices, rock piles along path, Zander 3450b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

USA: Ongiara Gorge of Niagara River, between Devil's Hole and the Whirlpool, bottom of W facing slope, ledges, soil. R.H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: Between steps &Whirlpool, halfway up talus, Eckel 922386.

 

Entodon cladorrhizans (Hedw.) C. Muell.

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

Entodon seductrix (Hedw.) C. Muell.

 

CAN: "On earth and logs in woods, Niagara-on-the-Lake, June 26, 1892 (Crum 1981).

 

CAN: "On earth in woods, Niagara‑on‑the‑Lake, Ont., June 26th, 1892.  (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 277. 

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

USA: Top of Whirlpool Steps, N of the Whirlpool, Ongiara Gorge. Moist area.

w. R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 880922 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).

 

USA: Devil's Hole, near bottom with Bryum capillare var. flaccidum, Grimmia alpicola,  Bryhnia graminicolor, May 21, 1988, Eckel No. 9303181B (BUF). 

USA: Second Sister Island, west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16372 (BUF, NY).

USA: Goat Island St. Pk. Oak-maple forest over limestone. Three Sisters Islands, west end of Second Sister. W. R. Buck 16327 2 Nov 1988 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, northwest and northern river margins. Northeast shore, limb of Salix alba; beach. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River, northeast

side, shore, fallen tree on beach, bark on trunk. With Ceratodon purpureus, Leskea polycarpa. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Bark base of Fraxinus pensylvanica. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).

 

Ephemerum crassinervium (Schwaegr.) Hampe

 

2005 Rare Plant Status Bryophyte List SH

 

USA: New York. Erie Co., north end of Grand Island, Buckhorn Island State Park, SW portion of Park, west of Interstate 190, near path along Niagara River from West River Parkway to Burnt Ship Creek, near sshoreline, moist clay embankment, Eckel, October 1, 1997, with R. H. Zander (BUF).  EXS

 

Eucladium verticillatum (Brid.) BSG

 

Rare in Ontario.

 

CAN: City Niagara Falls. old Welland Co., Niagara Glenn (Foster's Flats) just N of the Whirlpool. At the rivers edge. Shaded soil over calcareous rock, sheltered by a limestone ledge, seepy. P.M. Eckel NF5 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF). SECOND ONTARIO COLLECTION (Eckel, 1990b).

 

Eurhynchium graminicolor (Brid.) Par.

 

Eurhynchium hians (Hedw.) Sande‑Lac NY CHECK

 

CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. On low limestone cobbles, shaded, moist bottomland. Acer, Tsuga woods. P. M. Eckel NF10 Feb 19 1983 (BUF). 

 

USA: Ongiara Gorge of the Niagara River, bottom of W facing slope, between Devil's Hole and the Whirlpool, soil on boulders, wet area. R.H.Zander 3523a April 17, 1971 (BUF); Ongiara Gorge, between the (S) Whirlpool and the stone steps (N) descending to the Niagara River. Talus slope, bottom, NW facing. P.M.Eckel 1322386 Mar. 21, l986 (BUF).

 

USA: Eckel 122386, between DeVeaux steps and Whirlpool.

 

USA: Eckel 426386, Devil's Hole, upper slope.

 

USA: Buckhorn Island, base of Scutellaria lateriflora, marsh, Eckel, Oct. 1, 1997 (BUF).

USA: First Sister Island, western half, 2 Nov 1988, Buck 16426A (BUF, NY).

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River just S of Niagara Falls, central wet Quercus, Ulmus americana, Acer rubrum woods, with Fissidens taxifolius, Atrichum undulatum v. altecristatum P. M. Eckel s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF).

 

Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn. NY CHECK

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring); P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF); on soil with Fissidens taxifolius.

 

USA: Eckel, Devil's Hole, upper slopes.

 

USA: Second Sister east end alvar, south of Goat Island in the Niagara River, with Sedum sarmentosum. Eckel May 17, 1995.

 

CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats, lower slopes

 

Eurhynchium strigosum (Hoffm. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr) Schimp.

 

CAN: As Hypnum strigosum, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

Eurhynchium sullivantii, (Spruce) Jaeg. & Sauerb.

 

USA: Zander, Ongiara, lower Zander 3524a (NYS, BUF) Eckel, l986.

 

(As Eurhynchium graminicolor Brid.) "On limestone rocks, quite common at Foster's Flats, Niagara River, Ont., 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p.  294. 

 

The leaf shape is rather like Eurynchium, Brachythecium rivulare and other species: the short leaf cells (3‑4:1), especially short  in the apex, are reminiscent of Amblystegiaceae, the inflated basal cells look like many other species; the margins are crenulate-dentate; the twisted apex is indicative of Brachytheciaceae. Note the tiny papillae at the apices of the cells on the backs of the leaves, often seen on leaves that are bent or curved over. 

 

Fissidens adianthoides Hedw. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

"... on earth on rocks, Foster's Flats, Niagara River, Ont., May 16th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 203.

 

CAN: Zander, Horseshoe, lower spray zone.

 

USA: Eckel, upper path RR Bridge.

 

USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., Buckhorn Island State Park, NW tip Grand Island wet Quercus bicolor, Carya, Juglans nigra, Tilia americana woods just N of marsh. Rotten punky stump, seasonally inundated (spring).  P. M. Eckel, Oct. 22, 1997 with R. Zander (BUF)

USA: Base of Goat Island, spray area of American Falls, talus, crevices, rock piles along path, Zander 3450a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of Horseshoe Falls, near river, underside of large boulder, Zander 3466a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); base of Goat Island, soil under boulder, Zander 3477, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF); base of Goat Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16350 (BUF, NY); spray zone of American Falls, talus, soil over boulder, Zander 3448, Oct. 28 (BUF).

USA: Goat Island, Terrapin Point, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16446 (BUF, NY).

Fissidens bryoides Hedw. s.l. NY CHECK

 

USA: "on moist limestone and on small limestone pebbles, Niagara (American) Falls" with Amblystegium juratzkanum, A. T. Beals No. 230, Aug. 26, 1917 [NYS, identified as Thuidium pygmaeum].

 

USA: Devil's Hole on the Niagara River. Upper slopes, rather dry but shaded till afternoon. With Didymodon rigidulus var. rigidulus. With R. Zander.

P. M. Eckel 331585 March 16, 1985(BUF); Eckel, l986; As Fissidens viridulus (Sw.) Wahlenb. Zander, Devil's Hole, lower slopes.

 

USA: Between steps & Whirlpool, Eckel 1022386.

 

USA: As Fissidens viridulus (Sw.) Wahlenb. Ongiara Gorge of Niagara River, between Devil's Hole and the Whirlpool, bottom of W facing slope, ledges, soil. R.H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF);  between Devil's Hole and Whirlpool, Zander 3518b (BUF), Eckel l986. 

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). On rock, halfway down to Niagara River,

dolomite boulder field. Border half the leaf blade. P.M.Eckel 1474901 April 11, 1985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Above the escarpment on the lip of the gorge above Queenston, just N of the Horticultural Gardens and Smeaton's Cove. Locust Grove. Moist cobble from creek bottomland. P. M. Eckel   dupl. CANM 432685 April 20, 1985 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, smooth, rounded cobble-stone mature, shaded central woods. With Thuidium pygmaeum. det. Zander P. M. Eckel Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF).

USA: Goat Island, central woods: thin soil on limestone cobbles (Eckel 1990b).

Fissidens cristatus Wils. ex Mitt.  NY CHECK

 

CAN: As Fissidens decipiens ? cf. Crum & Anderson, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895.

 

CAN: Niagara Glen on the Niagara River. Mesic hardwood-hemlock-thuja woodland on sloping surface of dolomite block, with Encalypta procera, Tortella tortuosa. P.M.Eckel with R. Zander 123585 April 5, 1985 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara Falls, near Horseshoe Falls, near bottom of slope, spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses. det. P. M. Eckel  1995 R. H. Zander 3690 Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF).

USA: base of Goat Island. Spray zone of Horseshoe Falls, near river, thin soil over rocks, base of falls, with  Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum, Zander 3475a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

USA: First Sister Island, western half, Eckel 880724, July 8, 1987 (BUF); (as Fissidens dubius) 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16343A (BUF, NY).

USA: Second Sister Island, west end, tree roots, wet in high water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).

Fissidens grandifrons Brid.

 

USA: "Humectated perpendicular rocks; Niagara Falls … G. W. Clinton. Not uncommon in Western New-York. Our plant bears pistillidia, but neither antheridia nor fruit." (Peck 1866).

 

"Wet limestone rocks near waterfalls; abundant below Niagara Falls ..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p.89).

 

[CAN:] On rocks in a spring, Niagara Falls, J. Macoun No. 22, May 16, 1901 (NY).

 

[No country]: a series of specimens collected by George W. Clinton collected at "Niagara Falls" were distributed at various times to the herbarium of Dr. O. R. Willis (presented to NY, 1903), Dr. E. C. Howe (purchased by NY, 1902), and Charles H. Peck (a contemporary of Clinton, NY). 

USA: during the foray to Goat Island, part of the 1886 meeting in Buffalo of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American bryologists C. R. Barnes, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton and Lucius M. Underwood collected an unusual moss in this vicinity. These populations may still be seen (Eckel 1990):

Fissidens grandifrons. Spring on Goat Id., Niagara Falls, N.Y. Aug. 27th, 1889 North American Mosses named and presented by E. G. Britton [New York Botanical Garden].

Fissidens grandifrons. Goat Island. Near the "Spring" Aug. 1886 L. M. U[nderwood leg.] The Underwood Collection, 1914. [New York Botanical Garden].

Fissidens grandifrons. Niagara River - Goat Id. 1886. Aug. 21 Named by C. R. Barnes North American Mosses Presented by E. G. Britton [inside packet] Stream below the spring, Goat Island, Niagara River. C. R. Barnes, legit. Aug. 21, 1886 [New York Botanical Garden].

 

USA: Musci Appalachiani, Coe Finch Austin, 1870. Supplement I, No. 483. "Hab. Wet rocks, Niagara Falls ..." (BUF and NY).

 

USA: Goat Island, near the "Spring", Lucius M. Underwood, Aug. 1886 (NY).

 

USA: Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, MDCCCLVI, No. 88 [first edition], "Hab. in rupibus irroratis ad Niagarae cataractam, sterilis." (NY).

 

USA-Canada. Hab. in rupibus irroratis ad Niagarae cataractam, sterilis.

Musci Bor.-Americani. 2nd Ed. 1865. Sullivant & Lesquereux 111. 1865 (BUF).

 

USA: Musci Alleghanienses, W. S. Sullivant, 1845, No. 186 "Hab. ad Niagarae cataractam in rupibus irroratis. Flos femineus lateralis; archegonia 30‑60" (NY). 

 

[No country]: Hab. Niagara Falls. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa., No. 24 (NY).

 

USA: Niagara Falls (American side), "In drip, on limestone, within 25 ft. of the American Falls", A. T. Beals, Aug. 26, 1917 (NY).

 

[No country]: Hab. Niagara Falls, Rev. Francis Wolle, 1873 (NY). Wolle distributed several sets with this label, for example, one to Coe Finch Austin (NY). 

 

[No country]: Niagara Falls, "wet rocks", G. W. Clinton. Clinton sent this specimen to Charles Peck, who sent some on to C.F. Parker (NY). 

 

[No country]: wet rocks, Niagara Falls, Coe Finch Austin, 1874 (NY).

 

USA: Goat Island, Niagara River, C. R. Barnes, Aug. 21, 1886 (NY).

 

USA: Spring on Goat Island, Niagara Falls, Aug. 27, 1889, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (NY).

 

[No country] Hab. Wet rocks, Niagara Falls and northwestward to the Rocky Mountains." No. 483 Coe Finch Austin exsiccat: Musci Appalachiani: Supplement I [BUF].

 

SPECIMENS FROM NYS Herbarium:

 

USA: New York: Niagara County, Niagara Falls, ex coll. G. T. Stevens, annotated "probably a duplicate of Clinton's coll. in NYS" but in label inside a note on George T. Steven's label as Ont. [?] Musci. No original designation as New York State in packet (NYS).

 

USA: New York: Niagara Falls, also "1. Caledonia" with numerous specimens glued on paper, leg. G. W. Clinton (NYS).

 

USA: New York, dripping rocks, Niagara Falls, N.Y. G. W. Clinton (NYS)

 

USA?: Hab. in rupibus irroratis ad Niagarae cataractam, sterilis. No. 111 [Sullivant & Lesquereux, Musci Bor. ‑Amer., ed. 2, 111]

 

USA: New York, in drip, on limestone, within 25 ft. of the American Falls, coll. A. T. Beals Aug. 26, 1917, Musci Novebor 229, det. W. H. Wiegmann (The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium of William H. Wiegmann) (NYS)

 

CAN: Ontario, on limestone rocks in a spring by Niagara River, Foster's Flats, John Macoun, No. 12051, May 16, 1901 (Canada 22‑12051) (NYS).

 

CAN: Ontario, In a spring; Niagara Falls. J. M. Macoun No. 199, May 10, 1901 [10/5/01] (NYS).

 

USA: As Fissidens grandifrons Niagara Falls by the American staircase; Goat Is., at the Cascade...Day 1883

 

 CAN: Fissidens grandifrons Brid, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron 1895. "On wet limestone rocks in a spring close to the Niagara River at Foster's Flats, Ont., May 16th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 204. "Abundant below Niagara Falls. (Lesq. & James.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 38: issued in Canadian Musci, No. 53.

 

Note how many specimens were generated from Goat Island: the exsiccatae required

 

USA: A. Caledonia. B. Niagara Falls. Ex. Coll. George W. Clinton, Buffalo, NY s.n. s.d. [1860's] (BUF).

 

USA: base of Goat Island:  spray area of American Falls, talus, thin soil, crevices of rock, Zander 3445a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); with Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Zander, 3444b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF).

 

CAN: Niagara River Gorge, Niagara Glen, near river, calcareous vertical rock face, in trickle. R. Zander 4372 July 18, 1976 (BUF); Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Shaded soil over calcareous rock, sheltered by lime-stone ledge, seep. With Eucladium verticillum. With R.H.Zander P.M.Eckel NF5 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island on the Niagara River. North side near Green Island just east of the cove area with lots of Acer platanoides. In dolomite seepage: overhanging rocks. P. M. Eckel June 4, 1986(BUF).

 

Fissidens obtusifolius Wils.

 

USA: Zander, Devil's Hole, lower slopes, Zander 4253a (BUF), 3514a (BUF); Eckel, l986.

 

USA: Gorge of Niagara River below Devil's Hole, riverside limestone boulders. R.H. Zander Sept. 12, 1975 (BUF).

 

Fissidens taxifolius Hedw.

 

Niagara Falls, Lesquereux, Charles Peck in Day 1883.

 

CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). On rock, halfway down to Niagara River,

dolomite boulder field. With Tortula mucronifolia, Fissidens bryoides.

P.M.Eckel 1274901 April 11, 1985(BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Soil under dolomite rock overhang. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 63585 April 5, 1985 (BUF). 

 

CAN: Base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls.  In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with Dicranella varia, Barbula unguiculata, Amblystegium varium, Weissia brachycarpa, Physcomitrium pyriforme, May 27, 1991, Eckel  9302250 B (BUF); Wooded slopes overlooking the Horseshoe Falls, abundant throughout, on soil. P. M. Eckel 880710 April 23, 1988(BUF). 

 

CAN: town of Niagara‑on‑the‑Lake, Paradise Grove, natural regeneration area, southern border with Fort George, in solo sylvatico sterile calcareo, in luco humido, sub fruticibus, supra rivulo. P. M. Eckel legit  9710042 (BUF), October 4, 1997.

 

CAN: Queenston, Locust Grove, just S of Niagara Escarpment, E of Brock Monument, moist soil. c.fr. R. Zander & P. M. Eckel 8511091 April 20, 1985(BUF).

 

USA: City of Niagara Falls, rim of Niagara River Gorge, upper, disturbed soils, sterile soil beneathe Rhus typhina copse, dense shade. P.M.Eckel 110885 Sept. 21, l985 (BUF, NYS).

 

USA: Crest projection S of the Whirlpool Steps, small and hidden with shrubs (not large and exposed, like one further north). w. R. Zander P. M. Eckel 880921 Sept. 5, 1988  (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island, base of embankment, west shore, Eckel July 2, 1998 (BUF), sole species seen in this habitat.

 

USA: NY, Erie Co., north end of Grand Island, Buckhorn Island State Park, SW portion of Park, west of Interstate 190, near path along Niagara River from West River Parkway to Burnt Ship Creek, near shoreline, moist clay embankment, Eckel, October 1, 1997, with R. H. Zander (BUF), soil, shaded, under copse of Tilia americana.; Buckhorn Island State Park, north side East-West River Rd., Wood's Creek fishing area, damp, shaded soil by creek bank, Eckel, July 25, 2004 (MO). 

 

USA: Devil's Hole Near The Top On Dolomite Or Lime-Stone Talus, Rather Arid Situation, With Dryopteris Marginalis, Ceratodon Purpureus, Mnium Marginatum. P. M. Eckel 621186 March 16, L985(BUF); Lewiston. Devil's Hole, top of the gorge of the NiagarRiver just N of City of Niagara Falls line. Soil at lawn edge over dolomite rock, Barbula unguiculata, Campylium chrysophyllum  P. M. Eckel with R. Zander 9104011 March 16, 1990 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, south shore, covers the damp shaded soil below shrubs or trees along wet soil margins (Eckel 1990b); Goat Island on the Niagara River, wooded slope just N of first 3-Sisters Islds Bridge, on soil. P. M. Eckel 881004 Sept. 30, 1988 (BUF); Goat Island in the Niagara River, weedy bank facing Three Sisters, soil. With Impatiens, Solidago above. det. Zander P. M. Eckel Sept. 9, 1984 (BUF); Goat Island on the Niagara R. Central Acer-Fraxinus mixed old woods, soil, west end of woods in spray zone of the Horseshoe Falls. Sandy loam. Dolomite basement. PM Eckel, Marguerite Eckel 9004151 April 15 1990 (BUF).

 

USA: DeVeaux College woods, hummock, old growth woods, with Amblysteg. serpens, Ceratodon purpureus.  With A. tenax var. spinifolium. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 7, 2000 (BUF).

 

USA: Luna Island,1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16323 (BUF, NY).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River just S of Niagara Falls, central wet Quercus, Ulmus americana, Acer rubrum woods, with Eurhynch. hians, Atrichum undulatum v. altecristatum. P. M. Eckel s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River; base of embankment of mineral soil, west shore; the only bryophyte seen. P. M. Eckel s.n. July 2, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Moist ground, shaded, with Thuidium delicatulum. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998  (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River 3*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. Dominant on damp wall of drainage ditch. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).

 

Forsstroemia trichomitria (Hedw.) Lindb. NY CHECK

 

Leptodon trichomitrius (Hedw.) Mohr. in Sull. & Lesq.

 

Pterogonium trichomitrium (Hedw.) Schwaegr.

 

Forsstroemia trichomitria (Hedw.) Lindb.

 

Pterogonium trichomitrion, Drumm.

 

As Leptodon trichomitrion, (Hedw.) Mohr. in Sull. & Lesq. "... about Niagara Falls. (Drummond.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 161.

 

 

Funaria flavicans Michx. NY CHECK

 

2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List SH

 

USA: Erie Co. Grand Island. Very poor. Edge of muddy service road.

By Niagara R, Buckhorn State Park. Ann Glowny 11554 29 May 1973 (BUF).

 

Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. NY CHECK

 

CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.  Cameron l895.

 

CAN: "... abundant around Niagara Falls, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 238.

Funaria sp. USA: Luna Island, Niagara Falls, Aug. 21, 1886 [New York Botanical Garden] (NY)

USA: Luna Island, Niagara Falls, Aug. 21, 1886 [cf. handwriting E. G. Britton, A.A.A.S. meeting] Aug. 21, 1886, with Leptobryum pyriforme (NY).  [=American Association for the Advancement of Science]

 

USA[?] Niagara Falls, Rev. Francis Wolle, with Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, 1873 (NY).

 

CAN: Niagara on the Lake. Gorge of the Niagara River, "First Gorge" on escarpment at Redan battery Site, moist soil, old fireplace. R. H. Zander 3706 Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: Niagara Co. on rocks wet by spray, gorge below Niagara Falls, Theodore C. Baim No. 5776, July 17, 1963 (NYS, good fruit)

 

USA: Niagara Glen Gorge of Niagara River, between Devil's Hole and the Whirlpool, near river edge, thin soil on boulder. R.H. Zander April 17, 1971 (BUF).

 

USA: Eckel 121386 BUF between steps & Whirlpool top talus, base cliff.

 

USA: Lewiston (Artpark) in the gorge on mortar of old train wall, with Didymodon tophaceus, June 17, 1988, Eckel 9303173 A (BUF). 

 

CAN: Dufferin islands on trampled soil on swimming island, June 1, 1988, c. fr., Eckel No. 9303172 (BUF).

 

USA: Goat Island, east end ballast on island margins (Eckel 1990b); Dolomite ballast, southeast end, just east of the hree Sisters Islands. P. M. Eckel May 22, 1988 (BUF) .

USA: Luna Island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16330 (NY).

USA: First of the Three Sisters Islands, just S of Goat Island in the Niagara River. West end, dolomite boulder, w Tortella tortuosa, Timmia megapolitana. PM Eckel 880725 July 8 1987  (BUF).

USA: Chink in stone bridge to First Sister Island, west side, Eckel, April 26, 1987 (BUF).

USA: Green Island on the Niagara River, just N of Goat Island. Old dolomite ballast on south river margin, with Phascum cuspidatum. P.M. Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel. 9004153 April 15 1990 (BUF).

 

CAN: Wooded slopes overlooking the Horseshoe Falls. Lawn, base of slope, in seepage. P. M. Eckel 880712 April 23, 1988 (BUF).