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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
Grimmia
alpicola Hedw.
USA:
Eckel below between steps and Whirlpool 422386 BUF
USA:
[var. alpicola] Devil's Hole, near
bottom with Bryum capillare var. flaccidum,
Entodon seductrix, Bryhnia graminicolor, May 21, 1988, Eckel No. 9303181C
(BUF).
USA:
Devil's Hole, upper slopes, Eckel 226386.
USA:
(var. alpicola) Goat
Island on the Niagara River, wooded slope
just N of first 3-Sisters Islds Bridge, on dolomite boulder. Plants to over
7mm, lvs to 2mm, capsules immersed. P. M. Eckel 881003 Sept. 29, 1988 (BUF).
USA: (var. alpicola) Goat Island on the Niagara River, in
depression on dolomite block of first bridge to the Three Sisters
Islands. Plants to over
7mm, lvs to 2mm, capsules immersed. P. M. Eckel 881002 Sept. 29, 1988 (BUF).
USA: (As Schistidium alpicola). Luna Island,
1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16319 (NY).
USA: Green
Island on the Niagara R
just N of Goat Island. Old dolomite ballast on S side, occasionally
submersed, wet to moist river margin. PM Eckel, Marguerite Eckel 9004158
April 15, 1990 (BUF).
USA: (As Schistidium alpicola): Second Sister Island,
east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16411 (NY).
USA: var. alpicola. Dolomite
bridge, First Sister Island, in depression,
with lichens, Eckel, Sept. 29, 1988 (BUF).
Grimmia
alpicola var. rivularis (Brid.) Wahlenb.
CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Moist thin
soil in depressions in limestone boulders. w. Tortella tortuosa, Didymodon
rigidulus. With R.H.Zander. P.M.Eckel NF17 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).
Grimmia
apocarpa Hedw. NY CHECK as var. apocarpa
USA:
Zander, Devil's Hole lower area between Devil's and whirlp on USA
side.
CAN: Grimmia apocarpa, Queen Victoria
Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
As Grimmia
apocarpa var. stricta, Drumm.
Musc. Bor. Am. No. 55 by Macoun & Kindberg:] "... Niagara Falls (Macoun.)," Macoun &
Kindberg, 1892, p. 62‑63.
Grimmia
calyptrata A doubtful record.
A western species collected by Drummond in the Niagara gorge in BUF is misplaced from collections he
probably made out west. It is annotated as a new sp. Herb. No. 56168, . "On stones, Niagara,
rare" annotated as Grimmia
calyptrata Hook. on packet. cf. Wils., Hook.
J. Bot. This specimen is actually Grimmia
calyptrate but misplaced, sec. Zander.
Grimmia
pilifera P. Beauv.
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Grimmia
pennsylvanica Schwaegr. ex Sull. & Lesq.
CAN: "near the Falls of Niagara;
upon rocks (as Grimmia pennsylvanica),
Drummond, Musci Americani No. 56 (NY).
CAN: As Grimmia
pennsylvanica, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Dry, occasional seepage in dolomite
caprock, upper path, with Didymodon rigidulus, Gymnostomum aeruginosum.
With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 2231185 April 5, 1985 (BUF).
Gymnostomum
aeruginosum Sm. NY CHECK
Gymnostomum
calcareum, Nees, Hornsch. & Sturm
Gymnostomum
rupestre Schleich. ex Schwaegr.
[USA?]
On rocks, Whirlpool, Niagara Falls. G. W.
Clinton (with Seligeria sp., label
indicates S. recurvata, but removed
from packet) (NY).
CAN: As Gymnostomum rupestre Schleich. following Crum & Andeson p. 283, Queen Victoria
Niagara Falls Park. Cameron 1895
CAN: As Gymnostomum
calcareum, Nees & Hornsch. [G. tortile, Drummond. Musc. Bor. Am. 23]
CAN: "... on calcareous rocks near the
Whirlpool, Niagara Falls.
(Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 12.
CAN: As Gymnostomum
rupestre, Schwaegr., "... near the
Whirlpool, Niagara Falls
(Macoun.)," Macoun &
Kindberg, 1892 p. 13.
CAN: Macoun & Kindberg (p. 13, 1892) reported
(as G. rupestre) this species
growing "near the Whirlpool, Niagara
Falls ... (Macoun)."
CAN: As Gymnostomum
calcareum NY CHECK
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
USA:
(as Gymnostomum rupestre) Hab. on
ground towards 3 sister islands, Niagara Falls, Aug. 21, 1886, c. fr., Eugene
A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. (NY)
USA:
On Three Sisters
Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
Aug. 21, 1886, c. fr., AAAS meeting, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (NY).
A specimen from NY determined as Barbula convoluta was identified 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. Crum & Anderson (l981) discuss the
occurrence of this species in North America and believe specimens identified
as G. calcareum in eastern North
America are in fact G. aeruginosum based
on a variety of characters, p. 285.
Zander, Bryologist 80:233‑69, 1977, synonymized G. calcareum with G. aeruginosum. Podpera (1954) reported a specimen of Gymnostomum calcareum from "Niagara." Macoun & Kindberg (p. 12, 1892)
reported Gymnostomum calcareum "on
calcareous rocks near the Whirlpool Niagara Falls. (Macoun).
USA: boulder field, halfway down Whirlpool steps,
with Anomodon viticulosus, Bryum lisae var.
cuspidatum, Tortella tortuosa,
Campylium chrysophyllum, Encalypta procera, Plagiopus oederiana, Mnium thomsonii, Marchantia polymorpha,
May 6, 1987, Eckel 9302092b (BUF); DeVeaux (Whirlpool) stone steps down
calcareous gorge face, moist shaded wooded bottom above Niagara riverbank, on
moist boulders, c. fr., with Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum. Eckel Oct. 4,
1991 (BUF).
USA:
Zander, Devil's Hole waterfall.
USA:
Zander, Ongiara, lower slopes
USA:
Zander, Prospect
Park, lower slopes.
USA:
At Niagara
Falls, base of Goat Island, just
below lower entrance to elevator, about 70 feet above waterline, in vug in
large calcareous boulder. R. Zander, P. Eckel, W. Buck, R. Harris 8811012
Nov. 1, 1988 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara
River. Upper path, dolomite caprock, with Didymodon rigidulus,
Grimmia pilifera. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 2131185 April 5, 1985 (BUF).
CAN: Above
Queenston, on the escarpment just S of Brock's Monument on the gorge lip:
Locust" Grove picnic area. Thin soil over moist rock" in stream
bed. P. M. Eckel 232085 April 20, 1985 (BUF).
Haplocladium
microphyllum (Hedw.) Broth. 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).
CAN: (Welland Co., Bertie Twp.) Niagara River, Navy Island,
43*03'N, 79*01'W, just S of Niagara Falls; west side, bark base of tree; Oak
woodland. Dicranum montanum, Ceratodon purpureus. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Hedwigia
ciliata (Hedw.) P.‑Beauv. NY CHECK
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron, 1895.
CAN: As Hedwigia
albicans Lindb. "... on rocks, Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara
River, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 225.
USA:
Second Sister Island,
west end, on glacial erratic, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16380 (NY).
CAN: (Welland Co., Bertie Twp.), Navy Island
in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. With Hypnum pallescens
on granite glacial erratic; Fraxinus-Carya woods P. M. Eckel
s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Helodium
paludosum (Sull.) Aust.
As Elodium
paludosum Aust. "... Queenston and "roundhouse woods,"
near Niagara Falls,
Ont., 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 286.
USA:
Erie Co. Grand Island. Ubiquitous
on Grand Island.
Niagara R. Ann Glowny 1338 3-28-67 (BUF).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River: 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara
Falls. Forest interior; moist Red Maple
forest. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF);
Navy Island in the Niagara
River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Muck soil, with Climacium
americanum P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).
Herzogiella
striatella (Brid.) Iwats.
Plagiothecium
muehlenbeckii BSG.
CAN: "... on old logs at Foster's Flats, Niagara River, Ont., 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun,
1902, p. 299.
Homalotheciella
cubcapillata (Hedw.) Broth.
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As Homalothecium
subcapillatum Schp. Devil's Hole, Niagara River.
Day 1883.
Homomallium
adnatum (Hedw.) Broth. NY CHECK
USA:
Devil's Hole, upper slopes, Eckel 726386 (BUF); (Eckel, l986b).
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Boulder field. Base of
dolomite block, shaded woodland, with Didymodon rigidulus Bryum capillare.
P.M.Eckel 229486 April 11, 1985 (BUF)
USA: First Sister
Island, western half, 1
Nov. 1988, Buck 16342 (NY).
USA: Second
Sister Island,
west end, on glacial erratic, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16364 (BUF, NY).
Hylocomium
brevirostre (Brid.) Fleisch. NY CHECK
= Hypnum brevirostre (Brid.) Ehrh.
Hylocomium
splendens (Hedw.) BSG
Hypnum
splendens Hedw.
CAN: As Hypnum
splendens, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
Hymenostylium
recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dix.
= Gymnostomum
recurvirostrum Hedw.
On August 8, 1865, George
Clinton recorded in his journal that this moss was "everywhere common on
wet rocks" below the Biddle Staircase (on Goat Island, west facing face
of the Niagara River gorge)..
[USA?]
Hab. Niagara Falls, July 18, 1874, Coe Finch Austin, leg. with Didymodon tophaceus (NY).
USA:
Three Sisters
Islands, Niagara
River, Aug. 1886. L.M.U.
[Underwood] (NY) with bistratose leaf margins in patches.
USA:
Hab. ad cataractam Niagarae. Musci Alleghanienses, W. S.
Sullivant, 1845, No. 193 (As Gymnostomum
curvirostrum Hedw.), (NY).
USA:
Rocks. Niagara Falls, N.Y., July, 1865, c.fr.,
G. W. Clinton, det. Charles H. Peck (NY).
USA:
Biddle's Stairs, on damp rocks at Niagara Falls
below Biddle's Stairs, Goat Island, Sept.
1853, c. fr., Chapman collection (NY)
USA:
Hab. in rupibus irriguis Niagarae cataractae. Sullivant & Lesquereux,
Musci Bor.‑Amer. ed 1, No. 41 (As Gymnostomum
curvirostrum Hedw.)(NY). This collection has capsules which differ from
the typical variety by the "capsula ovato‑cylindrica fusco‑lutea,"
but is otherwise indistinguishable.
USA:
Hab. in rupibus irriguis Niagarae cataractae. Sullivant & Lesquereux,
Musci Bor. ‑Amer. ed. 2, 1865, No. 53 (NY). The NY specimen from Jaeger's
Herbarium (No. 777) was annotated as var.
ovatum Sull. & Lesq. It is still
"capsula ovato‑cylindrica fusco‑lutea". The specimen
examined above as No. 41 of the first edition represented a population of
medium to small stature. In No 53, two specimens, one tall, relative to the
other, are glued to the card, the lesser probably the var. inferior. [also specimen NYS
with two specimens on a card].
USA:
Niagara Falls,
G. W. Clinton ("3") several specimens glued to cards (NYS).
Canada.
Hab. Falls
of Niagara. Drummond, Musci Americani (Rocky
Mts.) No. 25 (as Gymnostomum
recurvirostrum (NY), a tall stemmed group and a small glued to the card,
the smaller probably representing the var. minor. Crum and Anderson (1981) indicate that No. 26 of this
exsiccat is var. minor. Two other
examples seen of No. 25 (both NY) are single collections of one stature.
Another specimen from the National Herbarium (CANM) in Ottawa
"Falls of Niagara" No. 25.
"Welland Co." in pencil.
USA:
[?] Niagara Falls. legit
G. W. Clinton (label of Charles H. Peck, Albany, NY)
apparently distributed by Peck to Dr. E. C. Howe (NY). Two collections in
fruit representing elongate‑stemmed population and short‑stemmed,
both in fruit. Perhaps this particular mode of preserving specimens of Hymenostylium recurvirostrum was to
demonstrate the variability of the species, as against naming, for example,
short representatives var. inferior, or robust ones with cylindric capsules
distinguished by Sullivant and Lesquereux.
USA:
[?] Niagara Falls,
Rev. Francis Wolle, 1873 (NY, in packet of Funaria hygrometrica).
[USA?]
Niagara Falls, 26 August, 1917, c. fr. A. T.
Beals (NY).
[USA?]
Niagara. c. fr. 1873, Francis Wolle (NY). [ex herb. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.]
[USA?]
Niagara Falls. Aug. 21 & 22, 1886. c.
fr. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem,
Pa. (NY)
[USA?]
Rocks. Niagara. North
America. ex Herb. William Mitten (NY).
[USA?]
On limestone. Niagara. Ruth Schoernhurst,
July 17, 1937, c. fr. (NY).
CAN: Welland Co., limestone cliffs along Niagara
River opposite American Falls, in seepage,
Howard Crum no. 26, October 5, 1964 (CANM).
A specimen at COLO labeled "Falls Niagara C.
W. July 1850", COLO label indicates New York with the possibility of the
collector being T. P. James. Specimen mounted on card and hand labeled.
As Gymnostmum
curvirostrum, "... at Niagara
Falls. (Drummond.)," Macoun & Kindberg,
1892 p. 13.
As Gymnostomum
curvirostrum Hedw. Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
As Gymnostomum
curvirostrum Hedw. Niagara Falls, near
the American staircase, Charles Peck in Day, 1883.
Podpera (1954) reported an occurrence from "Niagara." Macoun (p. 13, 1892) cited a Drummond
specimen from Niagara Falls.
Lesquereux & James (1884. pp.54): "Limestone rocks, and on deposits
of carbonate of lime or tufa, near springs; very abundant at Niagara Falls."
USA: on rock at base of American Falls,
Prospect Point. W. Specht & J. McCandless Oct. 9, 1973 (BUF).
CAN: Gorge
of the Niagara River, "First Gorge" road into gorge from Queenston,
bottom slope, side of gorge, below Lewiston Bridge, wet clay near waterfall
R. H. Zander 3723 Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).
CAN: (As Gymnostomum recurvirostrum) Upper Great Gorge of Niagara River,
below Table Rock House, near Horseshoe Falls.
(spray zone) R. H. Zander Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF); Niagara Falls, near Horseshoe
Falls, near bottom of slope, spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses.
R. H. Zander 3686b Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF).
CAN: Foster's Flats, (Niagara Glen) on the Niagara
River, half way down. N-facing, moist, dolomite boulder. RH
Zander 63585 Apr 5 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen, half way up slope from river, Pot Hole Path,
boulder, thin soil. R. H. Zander 3732a Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).
USA:
Gorge of Niagara R. at
Devil's Hole, top of gorge, on limestone.
R Zander
4252a 12 Sept 1975 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara
Falls. Forming large tufaceous mass on limestone wall of gorge at the
falls. I Herrnstadt & R Zander Mar 2 1977 (BUF).
USA.: Ongiara Gorge, between steps and
Whirlpool, top of talus slope, base of dolomite caprock in seepage: frozen,
with Didymodon tophaceus, northwest facing wall. P. M. Eckel 222386
March 21, l986 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats). Boulder field. Base of
dolomite block, shaded woodland. P.M.Eckel 525086 April 11, 1985 (BUF);
Niagara Glen (Foster's
Flats) on the Niagara River. Moist dolomite
boulder, N-facing, half way up gorge, with Didymodon rigidulus and Desmatodon
porteri. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 53585 April 5, 1985 (BUF).
USA:
lower Arch Bridge,
upper path USA:
Eckel between steps and Whirlpool, seeps, path by caprock, Eckel 321386
(BUF).
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
79386 Sept. 21, L985 (BUF).
USA: (as Hymenostylium
recurvirostre) just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin
soil, midslope, with Tortella fragilis, Hyophila involuta,
Trichostomum crispulum, Zander 3484d, Oct. 28, 1979
(BUF), on rubble, talus slope, Zander 3491b, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); just
outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, vertical rock face of gorge, with Preissia
quadrata, Zander 3492a, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF); spray area of
Horseshoe Falls, near river, soil under boulder, Zander 3478, Oct.28, 1979
(BUF); spray zone of American Falls, talus, thin soil, crevices of rock,
Zander 3444a, Oct. 28, 1979 (BUF); base of island, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16354
(BUF, NY).
CAN: Niagara Falls gorge, near the Horseshoe
Falls along road to power station. Wet, dripping dolomite walls.
R. H. Zander 3651 Aug. 10, 1971 (BUF); Niagara River Gorge, near Horseshoe Falls, down road to powerhouse, Lockport
Dolomite, crevices R. H. Zander 3648b Aug. 10, 1971 (BUF).
USA: Luna Island,
1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16331 (NY).
Hyophila
involuta (Hook.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. NY CHECK
2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List S1
[No country] Hab. Niagara Falls, 1873, F. Wolle (NY).
USA:
Zander, Devil's Hole, lower slopes.
USA:
Gorge of Niagara River, riverside limestone boulders. R. H.
Zander Sept. 12, 1975 (BUF).
CAN: Gorge of Niagara River at
Niagara Glen, about half way between water and lip of gorge, side of moist,
shady limestone boulder. R. H. Zander April 7, 1984 (BUF) .
CAN:
Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River.
Moist dolomite boulder in solution cavity: the smaller plant is Gymnostomum
aeruginosum With R. H. Zander P. M. Eckel 431285 April 5, 1985 (BUF).
CAN. gorge of Niagara River, Niagara Glen, near path, floor of woods
near river, moist rock surface, R. Zander & P. Eckel, Dec. 4, 2004 (MO).
USA: just outside spray area
of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin soil, midslope, with Tortella fragilis,
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Trichostomum crispulum, Zander 3484c Oct. 28,
1979 (BUF), Zander 3480, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF); spray area of Horseshoe Falls,
near river, thin soil in crevice of boulder, Zander 3469, Oct. 28, 1970
(BUF).
Hypnum abietinum Hedw. = Thuidium abietinum
(Hedw.) BSG
Hypnum aduncum Hedw. = Drepanocladus aduncus
(Hedw.) Warnst.
Hypnum alleghaniense C.Muell. = Thamnobryum alleghaniense (C. Muell.) Nieuwl.
Hypnum
brevirostre Ehrh. A Clinton
specimen from Devil's Hole (herb no. 41058).
Hypnum
confervoides Schwaeg. Schwaegr.
USA:
On rocks, with Radula complanata,
second sister Goat island (1873 Clinton,
Coll. herb. no. 41072 (BUF).
Hypnum
cupressiforme Hedw. NY CHECK
USA:
Artpark, Eckel 451486 (BUF), (Eckel, l986b).
Hypnum
curvifolium Hedw. NY CHECK
USA: Suspension Bridge (now City of Niagara Falls
by the Lower Arch Bridge) archived letter BUF from Charles Peck to George
Clinton (collector, from Clinton's trip May 11, 1867 noted in Clinton's journal)
CAN: 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).
USA:
Erie Co. Grand Island.
At delta of creek
flowing into Niagara R,
south
tip of Grand Island.
Ann Glowny 1096 3-28-67(BUF).
Hypnum
imponens Hedw. NY CHECK
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River just S of Niagara Falls, NW end, open gallery,
spring-wet Quercus, Ulmus americana,
Acer rubrum woods.P. M. Eckel s.n. July 2, 1998(BUF); Navy Island in the
Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Fallen
log; embankment; with Dicranum fuscescens. Pseudoparaphyllia laciniate. 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. W side; fallen log; with Ptilidium
pulcherrimum, Dicranum flagellare. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Note
this species has costa short and double, and that its stem cortical cells are
little or not inflated but especially the few thicker‑walled orange
cells at the base of the leaf subtended by a few enlarged thin‑walled
hyaline cells (cf. Drepanocladus,
which has a costa).
Hypnum
lindbergii Mitt. (New to NY CHECK)
USA: Devil's Hole, upper slopes, Eckel 331585
(BUF, NYS), Eckel, l986a; wet calcareous flat at base of gorge in shrubby
river margin, P. M. Eckel Sept. 22, 2004 (BUF); Devil's Hole by the Power Authority,
Niagara River Gorge. Upper slopes, calcareous, with Dryopteris marginalis,
on rock talus, with
With R.
Zander. Dicranella varia. P. M. Eckel 331585 March 16, 1985
(BUF).
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara
River. On punky log in late snow melt - boulder field. Note
there are few rotten log substrates in the flats. With R. Zander P. M. Eckel
531285 April 5, 1985 (BUF).
USA:
Second of the Three Sisters
Islands, east end, on the Niagara River just S of Goat Island. Northern margins
by water. P.M. Eckel 881111 Aug. 8, 1988 (BUF); Second
Sister, Eckel 86121701 (BUF, Bailey)
USA: 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).
CAN: Dufferin
Islands, marshy area on
log, Oct. 8, 1989, Eckel
9303175 (BUF).
USA: Second
Sister Island,
west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16379 (BUF,
NY).
USA: Second Sister Island,
east end, thin soil over dolomite flats, open with Salix, Cornus,
Betula, Lythrum, Carices, Eckel 86121701, Sept. 12, 1986 (BUF); 2 Nov.
1988, Buck 16404 (BUF, NY).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River just S of Niagara
Falls, northwest and northern river margins; "slump meadow" wet red
clay eroding embankment. P. M. Eckel s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF);
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;
Atrichum undulatum. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998
(BUF); Navy Island
in the Niagara River: 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. Dominant on logs, interior
of island, with Dicranum flagellare; Red Maple forest, wet. P. M.
Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998(BUF).
Hypnum pallescens (Hedw.) P. Beauv.
USA: Second
Sister Island,
west end, on trunk of Salix, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16388 (BUF, NY).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. With Hedwigia ciliata
on granite glacial erratic; Fraxinus-Carya woods P. M. Eckel s.n.
Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Hypnum pygmaeum
(BSG) Sull. & Lesq. = Thuidium pygmaeum BSG [note also Hypnum
pygmaeum Vill. ex Brid. = Leskeella nervosa (Brid.) Loesk.
Hypnum rivulare Brid.(BSG) Bruch = Brachythecium rivulare BSG
Hypnum rugosum
Ehrh. ex Hedw. = Rhytidium rugosum (Hedw.)
Kindb.
Hypnum
sprucei (Bruch) Spruc. = Amblystegium
jungermannioides (Brid.)
Giac. fid. Giac.
Hypnum
subcompactum, a doubtful name, not
in Index Muscorum
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
CAN: "... on rocks and stones below Queenston Heights, Ont. (Macoun.)," Macoun,
1902, p. 312. CHECK CITATION
Hypnum
schreberi Willd.
[CAN?]: City Niagara Falls.
Wood below the Whirlpool. Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y.
(BUF).
A specimen from "wood below the
Whirlpool" which Zander has suggested is the wooded moss-rock house area
associated with Whirlpool (DeVeaux) steps.
Hypnum
sullivantii R. Spruce
A Clinton
specimen from Devil's Hole with fruit (herb no.
38547).
Isopterygium
elegans (Brid.) Lindb. NY CHECK
Kindbergia
praelonga (Hedw.) Ochyra
As Stokesiella
praelonga (Hedw.) Robins.
Found by Macoun in 1891 at Foster's Flats,
Welland Co. (CANM 183141). Note other records in Cook, 1985. (Crum &
Anderson, Ireland
etc.)
(As Stokesiella
praelonga (Hedw.) Robins. in Crum &
Anderson, l981.
See Crum & Anderson 1981, p. 1077: Canada,
Foster's Flats.
Leptobryum
pyriforme (Hedw.) Wils.
CAN: As "Leptobigum
pyriforma," Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
USA:
Luna Island,
Niagara Falls
[cf. handwriting E. G. Britton, A. A. A. S. meeting] Aug. 21, 1886 (NY, in
packet of Funaria hygrometrica).
USA:
Buckhorn Island State Park.
USA: New York, Erie Co., Grand Island Twp., 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 Pohlia nutans.
CAN: Leptobryum
vulgare, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895..
Doubtful name. Possibly Leucobryum vulgare (= L. glaucum) was meant.
Leptodictium
humile (P.Beauv.) Ochyra
CAN: Ontario,
Regnl. Mun. Niagara, town of Niagara‑on‑the‑Lake, W side Niagara
River on S boundary Fort
George. Spring‑inundated
soil sub Quercus alba, Quercus rubra forest, with Brachythecium campestre and Physcomitrium pyriforme. P. M. Eckel,
Oct. 4, 1997 BUF.
Leptodictium riparium (Hedw.) Warnst.
(As Amblystegium riparium).
USA: Second Sister
Island, west end, tree
roots, wet in high water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).
(As A.
riparium) Goat Island in the Niagara River,
southeast end, wet soil by riverside. Open, in mats. P. M. Eckel June 3, 1987
(BUF); Dolomite ballast, open eastern end of Goat Island,
south side. Barbula unguiculata,Bryum lisae var
cuspidatum P.M. Eckel June 4, 1988 (BUF).
Leptodictyum
trichopodium var. kochii (BSG) Broth.
Amblystegium
kochii, Bruch & Schimp.
Leptodictyum
trichopodium var. curvipes (BSG)
Broth. is reported as excluded from Canada, Ireland et al. mosses of Canada.
Macoun (1902) reported the var. curvipes
at Niagara Falls,
but gave Amblystegium kochii in its
synonymy. What was probably found at Niagara
was the var. kochii
As Amblystegium
curvipes BSG "On old logs, Foster's Flats, Niagara Falls, Ont., May 13th, 1901 ...
(Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 302.
Lescuraea
patens (Lindb.) H. Arnell & C. Jens.
Pseudoleskea
atrovirens (Brid.) BSG
As Pseudoleskea
atrovirens, "On rocks at Niagara
Falls (Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892,
p. 180.
As Hypnum
atrovirens Dicks. and Hypnum filamentosum, Dicks. l.c.
Pseudoleskea
atrovirens Bruch & Schimp.
"On rocks; Niagara Falls
and Lake Superior (Macoun)..."
(Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 319), probably in Canada.
Leskea
gracilescens Hedw.
USA:
Erie Co. Grand Island. Marshy oak woods on Love Rd., Niagara R.
Tree base
in swamp. Ann Glowny 1363 4-20-67 (BUF).
Leskea
nervosa (Brid.) Myr. = Leskeella
nervosa (Brid.)
Loeske
Leskea
polycarpa Hedw. var. polycarpa NY CHECK
Hypnum
medium, Drumm. Musc. Bor.‑Am. No. 223.
Leskea
subobtusifolia C. Muell. & Kindb. in Mac.
& Kindb. 1892.
USA:
RR Bridge, Upper path Eckel 33895 (BUF), Eckel l986.
USA: Erie Co., north end of Grand Island, Buckhorn
Island State Park, SW portion of Park, west of I 190, near path along Niagara
River from West River Parkway to Burn Ship Creek, on bark of thick Populus deltoides branch at face
height, near two excavated areas in Typha
latifolia marsh. P. M. Eckel, Oct. 1, 1997, with R. H. Zander, with Ceratodon purpureus, Orthotrichum obtusifolium (BUF).
New York: Buckhorn Island,
east end, east shore of Burnt Ship creek, on Ulmus americana,
with Platygyrium repens, Orthotrichum
ohioense, O. obtusifolium, Eckel Oct. 21, 1997 (BUF).
USA: First
Sister Island,
western half, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16419 (BUF,
NY).
USA:
Whirlpool St. by the RR Bridge. Upper path along rim
of gorge along dolomite caprock. With Orthotrichum anomalum, Bryum
capillare. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 33895 March 9, 1985 (BUF).
USA:
Erie Co. Grand Island. Marshy oak woods, Bflo. Ornithological
Soc.
woods, Niagara River. Ann Glowny 1358 4-20-67 (BUF).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River, northeast side, shore,
fallen tree on beach, bark on trunk; with Entodon
seductrix, Ceratodon purpureus. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15,
1998 (BUF).
Leskea
polycarpa Ehrh. var.
paludosa (Hedw.) Schimp.
"On trees, Niagara Falls, Ont., June 15th, 1884
..." Macoun, 1902, p. 168.
"The above were referred to L. polycarpa in Part VI, p.
168," Macoun, 1902, p. 272. In Part VI (1892) L. polycarpa was
"… abundant on trees, Foster's Flats, below Niagara Falls,
(Macoun.)."
Note that there are only literature reports for
this variety as given by Ireland et al. (1980).
Leskeella
nervosa (Brid.) Loeske
NY CHECK
note Hypnum
pygmaeum Vill. ex Brid. = Leskeella
nervosa (Brid.) Loesk. Hypnum pygmaeum (BSG) Sull. & Lesq. is Thuidium
pygmaeum BSG
= Leskea
nervosa (Brid.) Myr.
USA:
(As Leskea nervosa)
"Rocks. Niagara Falls, G.
W. Clinton. … The specimens are sterile, but believed to belong to this
species." (Peck 1866).
(As Leskea
nervosa), Niagara Falls., Day 1883.
Leucobryum
glaucum (Hedw.) Aongstr. ex Fr.
Leucobryum
vulgare Hampe
(As Leucobryum
vulgare) "... woods, Queenston Heights,
Ont. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 204‑05.
Mnium
affine Bland ex Funck
CAN: Queen Victoria Niagara Falls
Park. Cameron 1895.
Mnium
affine Bland ex Funck = Plagiomnium
affine (Funck.) Kop. "Excluded from Canada. Most collections thus
named are either P. ciliare or P. ellipticum" (Ireland, et al.,
1980.)
Mnium
ciliare (C. Muell.) Schimp. NY CHECK
USA: (as Mnium affine var. ciliare)
Goat Island, south side, flats just west of Three Sisters (Eckel 1990b); Dolomite flats just west of the Three
Sisters Islands. With Brachythecium salebrosum. det. R. Zander P. M.
Eckel July 5, 1988 (BUF).
CAN: (as Mnium affine var. ciliare) Navy Island
in the Niagara River: 43*03'N,
79*01'W,
just south of Niagara Falls,
with Atrichum undulatum var. oerstedianum; hummock Beeches
dominant. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF).
Mnium
cuspidatum Hedw. NY CHECK
USA: Suspension Bridge (now City of Niagara Falls
by the Lower Arch Bridge) archived
letter BUF from Charles Peck to George Clinton (collector, from Clinton's trip May 11, 1867 noted in Clinton's journal)
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
USA:
Near the top of
Whirlpool Steps, N of the Whirlpool, Ongiara Gorge.
w. R. Zander. P. M.
Eckel 880924 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).
USA:
Devil's Hole on the Niagara River. Upper slopes, calcareous bedrock. Soil
in trash-midden. Plants synoicous. With R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 132185 March
16, 1985(BUF).
USA: City of Niagara Falls, Whirlpool State Park,
in solo sylvatico sterile calcareo, in luco Querci rubri, umbroso, P. M.
Eckel, Oct. 4, 1997 (BUF), with Amblystegium
varium.
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) Just N Of The Whirlpool, Base Of
Dolomite Boulder,
N-Facing Aspect, With Lophocolea Heterophylla, Myurella Sibirica. P.
M. Eckel 521186 April 11, L985 (BUF); Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool.
Shaded soil on limestone boulder, base of seedling tree, Acer - Tsuga
canadensis wood. With R.H.Zander. P.M.Eckel NF6 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River, northeast side, dry
clay embankment, with Brachythecium rutabulum. P. M. Eckel with R.
Zander s.n. July 15, 1998 (BUF); 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);
Navy Island in the
Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Soil; top
of shore embankment; shady; dominant moss. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n.
May 13, 1998 (BUF).
USA: Goat Island, south side, flats just west
of Three Sisters, wet hummock, roots of Cornus (Eckel 1990b); Goat Island on the Niagara River. SW
end, shoreline, flats east of the Horseshoe Falls,
wet hummock, roots of Cornus stolonifera. P. M. Eckel 880716 June 3,
1987 (BUF).
USA:
(as Plagiomnium cuspidatum.) Second
Sister Island,
west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16390 (BUF, NY); (as Plagiomnium cuspidatum); Second Sister
Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck
16401 (BUF, NY).
USA: Third Sister
Island, west end, in
vug of dolomite boulder. Eckel & Eckel 8703252, March 3, 1987 (BUF).
Mnium
marginatum (With.) Brid ex P.‑Beauv. NY CHECK New!
In Ontario,
it appears that the Whirlpool woods area, perhaps in Bowman's Ravine, is a
type locality:
"Mnium niagarae Kindbarg in Macoun
& Kindbarg, Catalogue of Canadian Plants 6: 141. 1892. Isotypes. Canada: Ontario,
Niagara Falls, Whirlpool, 6 June 1891,
Canadian Musci [no.] 581 (CANM 198223); Ontario,
Niagara, Whirlpool, 6 June 1891 (CANM
19822). = M. marginatum (With.) P. Beauv. (Ireland & Ley 1981).
CAN: (As Mnium niagarae Kindb.) "On earth
in woods, Whirlpool, Niagara Falls,
June 6, 1891" (Crum 1981).
CAN: (As Mnium
niagarae Kindb. in Macoun), Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
CAN: (As Mnium
niagarae Kindb. ex Macoun & Kindb.), p. 141, Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. 6.
1892.
(As Mnium
Niagarae, Kindb. in Mac. & Kindb.) Canadian Musci, No. 581
"Intermediate between M.
spinulosum and M. serratum, but
readily distinguished from both by the wide‑mouthed capsule."
"On earth under trees near the water in the woods bordering the Whirlpool,
Niagara Falls,
Ont., June 6th, 1891. (Macoun.)," Macoun &
Kindberg, 1892, pp. 141‑42.
As "M.
Niagarae Kindb. in Macoun & Kindb., Cat.
Canad. Pl. 6: 141. 1892. Holotype: Ontario.
Niagara Falls,
on earth under trees near the water in the woods bordering the Whirlpool, 6
VI. 1891 Macoun (+Macoun, Canad. Musci exs. 581) (S‑PA, isotypes in
CANM and H‑BR). ... It often has been collected together with M. thomsonii on calcareous
cliffs." p. 168. Koponen (1974).
CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. semi shaded vertical face of limestone boulder. Thin soil
in pockets. Synoicous. With R.H.Zander. P.M.Eckel NF13 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).
USA:
Zander, Ongiara, lower 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 821186 March 16, L985 (BUF).
Mnium
medium BSG NY CHECK
Mnium
orthorrhynchum Bruch & Schimp.
"Niagara Falls
(Clinton)..."
(Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 246).
CAN: "Crevices of limestone rocks, Niagara Falls, 1882, …" [Macoun specimen] (Crum 1891).
Mnium
punctatum Hedw. var. punctatum NY
CHECK
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. S end, decorticated log,
Oak-Hickory; with Nowellia curvifolia. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998
(BUF).
Mnium
rostratum Schrad. NY CHECK
As Mnium
rostratum Schrad. Devil's Hole, Niagara River.
Day 1883.
Mnium
spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.
"... in woods, Niagara River at Foster's Flats, Ont., May 13th, 1901.
(Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 258.
Mnium
thomsonii Schimp. NY CHECK
CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats, halfway
down.
USA: Whirlpool steps 1/4 mile N of Whirlpool
Park, half way down gorge of Niagara River, Thuja clump, dolomite talus, west facing, N aspect, with Campylium chrysophyllum, Tortella tortuosa. May 6, 1987, Eckel
No. 9302092 c (BUF) Note this sp. seems absent from the deciduous zone in Ontario boulder field.
Koponen says M. thomsonii "has a very narrow ecological
amplitude; it grows exclusively on limestone or calcareous cliffs, or on
calcareous soil in arctic conditions" p.
166. [Koponen, T. Lindbergia
2:160‑184].
USA: First Sister
Island, western half,
Eckel 880720, July 8, 1987 (BUF); 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16338 (NY).
Myurella
sibirica (C. Muell.) Reim. NY CHECK
USA:
Zander, Ongiara, lower,
Zander 3517 BUF, NYS
(Eckel, l986b).
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara
River. Far back in totally sheltered niched of dolomite
boulders, with Mnium thomsonii. With R. H. Zander Late snow melt.
P. M. Eckel 13885
April 5, 1985(BUF CANM) Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) Just N Of The Whirlpool, Base Of
Dolomite Boulder,
N-Facing Aspect, With Lophocolea Heterophylla, Mnium Cuspicatum. P. M.
Eckel 421186 April 11, L985 (BUF).
Neckera
pennata Hedw.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
Orthotrichum
anomalum Hedw.
One specimen of Drummond's exsiccat No. 152 at NY
contained Orthotrichum anomalum,
rather than the O. cupulatum indicated
on the label: " Rocks near the Whirlpool, below
the Falls of Niagara."
USA:
"Limestone rocks, Niagara Falls,
Lesqx. On Trees in the same locality, G. W. Clinton." (Peck 1866).
"Rare. ..Niagara Falls," Day
1883.
"On limestone rocks; Niagara
Falls ..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, pp.164‑165).
Orthotrichum
anomalum Hedw. "... on perpendicular rock, Foster's Flats, Niagara
River, 1901.
(Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 229.
USA:
Niagara Falls,
N.Y. Charles Mohr, Coll. July 1, 1866, herbarium of Charles Mohr, presented
in 1901, "ad saxas calcareas," c. fr. (US).
USA:
No. 119 S. & L. M. N. Amer. ed. I. "Niagara"
Agassiz (NY). label
hand written.
USA:
No. 177 Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant & L. Lesquereux,
ed 2. Ad rupes Niagara (Agassiz) (NY). label hand written. Also, with printed label.
USA:
New York, Niagara Falls
(2), also Whitehall (1) and Albany (3), "1 & 3 C. H. Peck. 2.
G. W. Clinton"
(NYS)
USA:
New York, Niagara Falls and vicinity, G. W. Clinton
(NYS).
USA: Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S.
Sullivant & L. Lesquereux, MDCCCLVI No. 119, ed. 1 Hab. ad rupes Niagarae
cataractae (Agassiz) (NY).
USA:
New York. Niagara Falls. specimen says
H. Gillman, Coll. label, however, of Charles H. Peck showing Clinton as the collector
is included in the specimen (NY).
CAN: On rocks. Niagara River.
Mosses from Ontario, Canada, J. Macoun, May 13, 1901
(NY).
[USA?]
Hab. Niagara, 1873, Francis Wolle c.fr. (NY).
[USA?]
Hab. Niagara, trees above Falls. Herb. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
(NY).
USA:
At Whirlpool St by the RR bridge under R. Moses Pkwy, path along the
dolomite caprock. Vertical surface of a dolomite rock as part of talus slope,
mesic, rather shady. PM Eckel & RH Zander 331685 Mar 9 1985 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Thin soil
over calcareous boulder - shaded in summer. With R.H.Zander P.M.Eckel NF3
Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF).
CAN: Whirlpool Ravine, base of shaded dolomite,
June 9, 1990, c.fr., deoperculated, Eckel 9302096
(BUF).
USA:
Devil's Hole, upper slopes, Eckel 526386.
USA:
Goat Island, south shore, on boulders toward the Three Sisters (Eckel 1990b);
Goat Island on the Niagara River, wooded slope just N of first 3-Sisters
Islds Bridge, on boulder. c.fr. P. M. Eckel 881005 Sept. 30, 1988(BUF).
USA: First Sister
Island, western half,
Eckel 880721, July 8, 1987 (BUF).
USA:
Green Isl. on the
Niagara R, just N of Goat Isl. Old
dolomite ballast on S side, wet to moist river margin. With Grimmia sp.
P. M. Eckel, Marguerite P Eckel. 9004154 April 15, 1990 (BUF).
Orthotrichum
cupulatum Brid. NY CHECK Doubtful reports.
Perhaps this literature report refers to Day's
citation below. Vitt suggests that eastern reports for O. cupulatum are O. strangulatum, as the former species
occurs in the west.
As Orthotrichum
cupulatum Hoff.."Niagara Falls, Drummond," Sullivant,
Charles Peck in Day 1883.
As Orthotrichum
nudum Dicks. var. Rudolphianum (Lehm.) Husn. "Rocks near the Whirlpool, below Niagara Falls.
(Drummond.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 87.
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara
River. Seepage just below the dolomite caprock of the Niagara gorge. With R. H. Zander P. M. Eckel 321185
April 5, 1985 (BUF).
Orthotrichum
obtusifolium Brid.
USA: Erie Co., north end of Grand Island,
Buckhorn Island State Park, SW portion of Park, west of I 190, near path
along Niagara River from West River Parkway to Burn Ship Creek, on bark of
thick Populus deltoides branch at
face height, near two excavated areas in Typha
latifolia marsh. P. M. Eckel, Oct. 1, 1997, with R. H. Zander, with Ceratodon purpureus.
Orthotrichum
obtusifolium Brid.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
Orthotrichum
ohioense Sull. & Lesq. ex Aust.
2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List SH
CAN: base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls, in spray on mature Salix, Eckel &
Zander, c.fr. May 27, 1991, No. 9302251 (BUF).
New York: Buckhorn Island,
east end, east shore of Burnt Ship creek, on Ulmus americana,
with Platygyrium repens, Leskea
polycarpa, O. obtusifolium, Eckel Oct. 21, 1997 (BUF).
This species is distinct from O. pusillum, especially when the
latter is old and ribbed, by the reflexed teeth when dry, and the smaller
leaf cell walls that are incrassate and irregularly thickened. The cells of O. pusillum are not incrassate and
have even walls. The calyptra of O. ohioense is hairy, that of O. pusillum smooth. The brood bodies
in material from Buckhorn
Island are from a few
stems of O. obtusifolium in the
population. Both specimens were on tree trunks in the open (without other
canopy). The species grows on the bark
of deciduous trees including Acer,
Fraxinus, Carpinus and Cornus,
all of which grow at Niagara. Since
populations do not usually grow in the open, the trees of the Niagara collections may be assumed to have once been on
the forest edge but have been exposed by park personnel.
Orthotrichum
speciosum Nees ex Sturm.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
Orthotrichum
strangulatum P.‑Beauv.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
As Orthotrichum
Porteri, Sull. & Lesq. in Aust., Bull. Torr.
Bot. Club, Vol. VI, 34 "On dry
limestone rock, by the stairs leading down the cliff to Foster's Flats,
Niagara Falls, Ont., May 16th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p.
230.
"Some of the material distributed as
Drummond's Musci Americani (Rocky Mts.) no. 152, as O. cupulatum, is indeed that species
of western distribution; some is O.
strangulatum instead. It is doubtful if O. cupulatum was actually collected at Niagara Falls, as the
label indicates, but O. strangulatum could
have been" (Crum & Anderson 1981, p. 707).
Phascum
cuspidatum Hedw. NY CHECK
=Tortula atherodes Zander
"On earth on the wood roads around the base
of Queenston Heights, Ont.; in fine fruit, May 8th,
1901. Found only on hard baked earth. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p.
185.
Ontario:
Drummond's exsiccat Musci Boreali‑Americani, number 6. 1828, as var.
elatum Hooker et Tayl. Musc. Brit. ed 2, p. 9] "Hab. Sandy field near
the Falls of Niagara" [NY, no specimen
accompanied the label]. Grout, in his treatment of Phascum, considered Drummond's No. 6 to be var. Americanum Ren. & Card. The
typical variety was considered by him to occur in the western United Stated
(Washington), the var. americanum to
be "widely distributed in southern Canada" &c.
CAN: Ontario, On
earth, roadside, below Queenston
Heights, 8/5/01, J. M.
Macoun, No. 200, May 8, 1901 (NYS).
USA:
Zander, Eddy Basin, upper slopes.
CAN: Niagara-on-the-Lake. across the Niagara Pky
(west) and S of Fort George. Paradise Grove; hard clay, disturbed dirt road,
garden midden. P. M. Eckel with R. H. Zander s.n. May 25, 1998
(BUF), with Physcomitrium pyriforme,
Weissia sp.; Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Soil, between grasses of lawn. Richard H. Zander 4221 June 22, 1974 (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, Barbula unguiculata,
May 27, 1991, Eckel 9302250 D (BUF).
CAN: Dufferin Islands near the Falls, western area, bare soil in lawn. R. Zander & P. Eckel 8612281 Oct.
30, 1986 (BUF).
USA:
Goat Island on the Niagara River. Soil at base of tree by the restaurant
beside the driveway. With Barbula unguiculata and Pottia truncata
var. truncata. P. M. Eckel 881030 Oct. 29, 1988 BUF);
Goat Island on the Niagara River. North side in island of roads "by
maintenance building" base of Acer saccharum. P.M. Eckel 881115
Nov. 10, 1988 (BUF).
USA:
Green Island
on the Niagara River, just N of Goat Island.
Old dolomite ballast on south side, wet to moist river margin. PM Eckel,
Marguerite P. Eckel 9004152 April 15 1990 (BUF).
USA;
New York: Erie Co. Grand Island. Marshy soil by road, southern end of Grand Island, Niagara River.
Ann Glowny 1156 Mar. 28, 1968 (BUF).
Philonotis
fontana (Hedw.)
Brid.NY CHECK
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
CAN: "... in damp woods by Drummond's
Island, Niagara Falls,
Ont., May, 1900. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p.
240.
[USA?]
Niagara Falls. as
var. falcata [Bartamia fontana var. falcata. Rev. F. Wolle, 1873, herb.
Coe Finch Austin (NY)
CAN: Niagara River Gorge, near Horseshoe Falls, near bottom of slope,
spray zone, on thin soil on rocks with grasses det. P. M. Eckel 1995 R. H. Zander 3696 Sept. 7, 1971 (BUF).
Philonotis
marchica (Hedw.) Brid.
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 3741c Sept. 30, 1971(BUF).
USA:
Goat Island, Eckel 216686 (BUF, NYS),
(Eckel, l986b).
USA: Goat Island, Terrapin Point, 2 Nov.
1988, Buck, 16439 (BUF, NY).
USA: Second Sister
Island, east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck
16394 (NY).
Philonotis
muhlenbergii (Schwaegr.) Brid
NY CHECK
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= Bartramia muhlenbergii Schwaegr.
USA:
(As Bartramia muhlenbergii (Schwaegr.) Brid.) "Niagara
Falls, G. W. Clinton." (Peck 1866),
As Bartramia
muhlenbergii Schwaegr. Niagara
Falls, Day 1883.
According to Crum and Anderson 1981: "Cardot
(Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7:307, 1899) was unable to distinguish the type from Philonotis marchica..
The problems in species definition are so difficult in Philonotis that we have avoided taking a definite stand....
William Zales, in his unpublished dissertation on Philonitis in North America (of
which we have seen the key to species), apparently recognized P. marchica but not P. muhlenbergii. Other authors have
expressed doubt that the two species can be differentiated."
One specimen I originally identified as P. muhlenbergiana, but upon
examination of other stems I find that lower leaves are subpercurrent, and in
this collection, at least some of the leaves had percurrent costae, hence the
determination P. marchica (Eckel
216686) above.
USA: Goat Island, south side, flats just west
of Three Sisters, wet hummock, roots of Cornus (Eckel 1990b); Goat Island on the Niagara River. SW
end, shoreline, flats east of the Horseshoe Falls, wet hummock, roots of
Cornus stolonifera'; lvs percurrent (vs. P. marchica). M. Eckel 880718
June 3, 1987 (BUF).
USA: Second Sister
Island, west end, tree
roots, wet in high water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF).
Physcomitrium
pyriforme (Hedw.) Hampe
As Physcomitrium
turbinatum C. M. ex Lesq. & James,
Man. Mosses No. Amer., p. 198,
1884, non (Mx.)
E. G. Britt. 1894.
As Physcomitrium
turbinatum C. Muell. "Very abundant on earth below Queenston Heights
and within the spray of Niagara
Falls, Ont., above the Power House, and on earth in
the flower border close to the falls, May 16th, 1901. (Macoun.),"
Macoun, 1902, p. 238.
CAN: Ontario,
Regnl. Mun. Niagara, town of Niagara‑on‑the‑Lake,
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.fr., with Brachythecium campestre, fruit young,
& Leptodictium humile c.fr.;
also dirt road, with Phascum
cuspidatum, Weissia sp. Eckel May 25, 1998 (BUF).
CAN: base of wooded embankment overlooking the Horseshoe Falls.
In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with Fissidens taxifolius, Amblystegium varium, Weissia brachycarpa,
Barbula unguiculata, May 27, 1991, Eckel No. 9302250C May 27, 1991
(BUF).
USA:
Bottom of slope near Sewage Treatment Plant, Eckel 125586 (BUF), (Eckel,
l986b).
USA:
Upper Great Gorge of
the Niagara River. Just S of the sewage
treatment plant on disturbed slope, with grasses, cinder substrata. With Weissia
controversa, Astomum muhlenberg. P. M. Eckel 125586 May 24, l986 (BUF).
A "winter annual and springtime weed"
(Crum & Anderson, p. 464), "It is a weed and could well have been
introduced from Europe, and it shows a Crataegus‑like
evolutionary burgeoning in North America," its existence in the Niagara
parklands, especially so early (1901), may be an indication of tourist‑effect,
much like the report of Bryum rubens reported
above.
Plagiopus
oederiana (Sw.) Limpr. NY CHECK
Bartramia
oederi Brid.
Bartramia
oederiana Turn.
USA:
(As Bartramia oederi Swartz.) "Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton."
(Peck 1866).
USA:
(As Bartramia oerderi Swartz.)
Devil's Hole, Niagara River, Day 1883.
CAN: (As Bartramia oerderiana) Queen Victoria
Niagara Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
USA:
Zander, Ongiara, lower slopes Zander 3521c (BUF, NYS), (Eckel, l986b).
Plagiothecium cavifolium (Brid.) Iwats.
USA: Second
Sister Island,
west end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16370 (NY), 16376 (BUF, NY).
Plagiothecium
denticulatum (Hedw.) BSG
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
CAN: "... also at Niagara Falls
... 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 299.
USA:
Goat Island, east end ballast on island margins (Eckel 1990b); 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: First
Sister Island,
western half, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16424 (BUF,
NY).
Plagiothecium
latebricola BSG
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); cortical cells large & thin, lvs in
decurrencies with propagula. The plant was found in the Quercus alba, Q. rubra, Q. palustris and Acer rubrum swampy woods of Buckhorn Island
State Park on a punky
log in soil subject to flooding. Crum and Anderson (1981) indicate that the
species is rare in North America, although Ketchledge (1980) records numerous
stations in New York
State. It is separated
from Isopterygium by the thin‑walled
cortical cells and the enlarged and clear cells in the leaf angles being
distinctly decurrent. The stems and branch cortical cells of Isopterygium are small and thick‑walled, the leaves have no decurrencies even though the
filiform propagulae seem similar to those of species in Plagiothecium.
CAN: Gorge of Niagara River, near the American
Falls by Prospect Point, near river, thin soil, crevices of
limestone boulder. R. H. Zander 3741c
Sept. 30, 1971 (BUF).
Platydictya
confervoides (Brid.) Crum
USA:
Niagara Co., Whirlpool woods, G. W. Clinton (NYS) [glued on card: note the
identification of Whirlpool woods with a New York station].
CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Thin soil
over limestone boulder, shade. With Anomodon rostratus, Encalypta procera,
Tortella tortuosa. With R.H.Zander. P.M.Eckel NF1 Feb. 19, 1983(BUF);
Niagara Glen, just N
of Whirlpool. Thin soil over limestone boulder, cool, bottomland Acer -
Tsuga canadensis wood. With R.H.Zander P.M.Eckel NF8 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF);
Gorge of Niagara River, Niagara Glen, half
way up
slope from river, Pot Hole, Path, boulder, thin soil. R. H. Zander 3730 Sept.
29, 1971 (BUF).
USA:
Whirlpool steps, base
of talus slope, with Didymodon rigidulus var. rigidulus, Campylium
chrysophyllum. Ongiara Gorge. w. R. Zander. P.
M. Eckel 880929 Sept. 5, 1988 (BUF).
Platydictya
jungermannioides (Brid.) Crum. NY CHECK
As Hypnum
sprucii Bruch. on the ground. James. Goat island
Falls Niagara NY
July 1850 herb. no. 41186.
Platydictya
minutissima (Sull. & Lesqu. ex Sull.) Crum NY
CHECK
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Platydictya
subtile (Brid.) Crum NY CHECK
As Hypnum
subtile Hoffm. Whirlpool woods.
Day 1883.
[CAN?] City Niagara Falls. Whirlpool
Woods. Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N. Y.
June 10 (BUF); Clinton
specimen for Whirlpool woods, June 14 herb. no.
41200 [1980-1870].
Platygyrium
repens (Brid.) BSG NY CHECK
USA:
Artpark, Eckel & Eckel 251486 (BUF).
USA:
Whirlpool Creek [Devil's Hole, creek is called "Bloody Run"] G. W.
Clinton [glued on card] [NYS]
New York: Buckhorn Island, east end, east shore
of Burnt Ship creek, on Ulmus americana,
with Leskea polycarpa, Orthotrichum
ohioense, O. obtusifolium, Eckel Oct. 21, 1997 (BUF).
USA: Second
Sister Island,
west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck, 16369 (BUF, NY).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara
Falls, western side of island. Bark of Fraxinus
pensylvanica. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).
Pleuridium
subulatum (Hedw.) Rabenh.
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, Barbula unguiculata,
May 27, 1991, Eckel No. 9302250 E (BUF).
Pohlia
annotina (Hedw.) Lindb.
CAN: As Webera
annotina (Hedw.) Bruch in Schwaegr., Queen Victoria Niagara Falls
Park .Cameron
1895.
Pohlia
atropurpurea (Wahl.) H. Lindb.
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Status List SH
Bryum
atropurpureum Wahlenb. in Fuernr.
CAN: As Bryum
atropurium (= atropurpureum Wahl.
ex Web. & Mohr), Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
CAN: As Bryum
atropurpureum Wahlenb. in Fuernr. "On earth at Foster's Flats below Niagara Falls, Ont.
(Macoun.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 125.
Pohlia
nutans (Hedw.) Lindb. NY CHECK
CAN: As Webera
nutans Hedw., 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); with Leptobryum
pyriforme.
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. W side; soil on clay, with Polytrichum
commune. P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Pohlia
wahlenbergii (Web. & Mohr) Andr. NY CHECK
CAN: As Webera
albicans Schimp., Queen Victoria
Niagara Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
USA:
Goat Island, south side, flats just west of
Three Sisters, just west of Three Sisters, island margin of Cornus stolonifera
(Eckel 1990b).
USA: Second
Sister Island,
east end, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16410 (BUF,
NY).
Polytrichum
commune Hedw. NY CHECK.
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. W side; soil on clay, with Pohlia
nutans. 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.
Wet soil; on hummock. among Oaks. P. M. Eckel s.n.
Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Polytrichum
formosum Hedw.
USA:
New York, Erie Co.: Buckhorn Island, open swamp woods, Quercus rubra, Carya ovata, Acer rubrum, Ulmus americana: rather dry hummock in woods,
Eckel July 26, 1998. The capsules were to 5 mm (not P. longisetum).
Polytrichum
juniperinum Hedw. NY CHECK
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park.
Cameron 1895.
Polytrichum ohioense Ren. & Card.
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River: 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara
Falls. Soil elevation, forest interior. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept.
14, 1998 (BUF).
Porotrichum
alleghaniense (C.M.) Grout = Thamnobryum alleghaniense (C. Muell.) Nieuwl.
Pottia
starkeana ssp. minutula (Schleich.ex Schwaegr.) Chamberl.
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USA:
Eckel upper pavement at Devil's Hole Eckel 631685 (BUF), Eckel, l986. gorge of Niagara River,
Devil's Hole, upper pavement in dolomite caprock overlooking the river, bare,
sterile patches in lawn margins ‑ not in bare patches in the middle of
the lawns.
USA:
Lewiston. South of Lewiston, Devil's Hole
State Park, rim of gorge of Niagara River, on bare soil in lawn near top of stairs
into gorge. R. Zander & P. Eckel 8612282 Oct. 28, 1986 (BUF).
Pottia
truncata (Hedw.) Fuernr. ex BSG var. truncata
CAN: Zander Foster's Flats, lower slopes
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara
River. Flat lawns above gorge, compact clay margins of exposed
dolomite bedrock (var. major nearby)
With R. H.
Zander. P. M. Eckel (Dupl. CANM 133585 April 5, 1985)
(BUF).
CAN: Base of wooded embankment overlooking
the Horseshoe Falls. In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, with Fissidens taxifolius, Amblystegium varium,
Weissia brachycarpa, Barbula unguiculata, May 27, 1991, Eckel No. 9302250
G (BUF).
USA:
Green Island on the Niagara R., just N of Goat Isl.
Old dolomite ballast on south side, wet to moist river margin. With Barbula
unguiculata, Phascum cuspidatum. PM Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel
9004155a April 15 1990(BUF).
USA: Goat Island on the Niagara River.
Soil at base of tree by the restaurant beside the driveway. With Barbula
unguiculata P. M. Eckel det. Zander 881031 Oct. 29, 1988
(BUF).
USA: Lewiston.
Artpark, alvar on ledges at top of embankment of Niagara River beside stone
piers of old Suspension Bridge, Syntrichia ruralis, Saxifraga
virginiensis, Rumex acetosella. P. M. Eckel s.n. May 24, 2002 (BUF).
Pottia
truncata var. major (Web. & Mohr) BSG
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3T5 as Global Rank]
=Tortula modica Zander
CAN: Eckel‑Zander, Foster's Flats, above.
USA:
halfway up talus slope, between steps & Whirlpool, Eckel 522386 BUF.
CAN: Ontario,
City of Niagara Falls,
on soil of slope above Table Rock House, next to inclined railway,
rudimentary peristome present, spores mature, Zander & Eckel, April 4,
1993 (BUF).
Pseudoleskeella
tectorum (Funck ex Brid.) Kindb. ex Broth. NY
CHECK
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As Leskea
wollei Aust. "Niagara Falls.
(Wolle.)," Macoun & Kindberg, 1892, p. 170.
As Leskea
wollei, Austin.
1874. Bull. Torr. Club, Vol.5:21‑24 (p22). "Niagara Falls (Wolle) ..." (Lesquereux
& James, 1884, p. 304). A possible type locality. The description in the
bulletin also included Lake Superior region
and a collection by Prof. John Macoun.
Pterogonium
trichomitrion, Drumm.
CAN: Drummond, Musci Amer. (Rocky Mts.) No. 78
(as Pterogonium trichomitrion Hedw.)
"Hab. Trunks of trees in Upper Canada;
about the Falls
of Niagara."
(NY).
USA:
Zander, Devil's Hole, lower slopes, Zander 3513 (BUF, NYS); Eckel l986.
CAN: As Leptodon
trichomitrius, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park. Cameron 1895.
As Leptodon
trichomitrius, "... about Niagara
Falls. (Drummond.)," Macoun & Kindberg,
1892, p. 161.
Ptychomitrium
incurvum (Schwaegr.) Spruce
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CAN: As Grimmia
hookeri nov. sp., Hab. On a stone near the Falls
of Niagara in Upper Canada; rare. No. 61 (NY), Drummond;
Musci Americani No. 61, 1828.
"Ontario (Niagara Falls) and New York ..." Crum & Anderson p.
670. NY Checklist for 21,24,25 26 non 5.
CAN: As Pelychomitrium
incurvum, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895. Probably one of Cameron's outrageous typographical errors.
Lesquereux & James (1884, p. 157) cite the
substrate as "exposed rocks, especially sandstone," "Canada, near Niagara Falls (Drummond)."
As Grimmia
Hookeri, Drumm."On a stone near the Falls
of Niagara, in Ontario; rare. (Drummond.)," Macoun
& Kindberg, 1892, p. 79.
Pylaisia
intricata (Hedw.) Grout
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park.
Cameron 1895.
Pylaisia
polyantha (Hedw.) Grout
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park.
Cameron 1895.
CAN: As Pylaisia
heteromalla Bruch et Schimp., Queen Victoria
Niagara Falls Park
Cameron 1895.
Rhodobryum
ontariense (Kindb.) Paris
in Kindb.
CAN: Eckel, Foster's Flats, halfway
down.
CAN: As Bryum
ontariense Kindb, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park . Cameron 1895.
Rhynchostegium
serrulatum (Hedw.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. NY CHECK
USA:
Gorge of Niagara
River, "Upper Great Gorge" trail from Schoelkopf Museum
towards Whirlpool. Lockport
Dolomite. 1/3 way down. Soil. R. H. Zander 3759 Oct. 6, 1971 (BUF).
USA:
Eckel, upper slopes near RR Bridge.
USA:
Eckel, bluffs overlooking Lewiston, old growth Oak-Hickory woods, with Weissia controversa
(Eckel June 9, 1995) MO.
USA:
Eckel between steps & Whirlpool.
Rhytidium
rugosum (Hedw.) Kindb. NY CHECK
Hypnum rugosum Ehrh. ex
Hedw.
USA;
(As Hypnum rugosum Ehrh.) "Exposed places on rocks. Goat Island, Lesqx. Whirlpool wood, G. W. Clinton"
(Peckl 1866).
(As Hypnum
rugosum Ehrh.) (author given as Hedw.) Rare. Niagara Falls; Whirlpool
woods, Day 1883
[No country] [as Hypnum rugosum] "Niagara
Falls", Francis Wolle, 1873. ex
herb. Coe Finch Austin (NY).
[No country] "Hab. Niagara Falls,
1873", Francis Wolle, ex herb. Eugene A. Rau (NY).
"... most
characteristic of northern and montane flora" (Crum & Anderson, p.
1211).
Rhytidiadelphus
triquetrus (Hedw.) Warnst.
CAN: As Hypnum
trignetrum, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895. prob. H. triquetrum.
CAN: As Hylocomium
triquetrum (Hedw). BSG "Roundhouse woods, Niagara Falls, 1901. (Macoun.),"
Macoun, 1902, p. 318.
Seligeria
calcarea (Hedw.) BSG NY CHECK
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"The discovery of this rare and minute
species in our [New York]
State (as well as of [S. recurvata] is due to the earnest and
faithful researches of G. W. Clinton (Peck 1866).
Seligeria
calcarea Devil's Hole, Niagara Co. Day 1883.
USA:
Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton [two identical specimens mounted on cards] [NYS]
USA:
Lewiston. Devil's Hole, Niagara.
[Handwriting of Leo Lesquereux] [outside label in Clinton's handwriting G.
W. Clinton legit s.n. s.d.] [1860-1870's] (BUF).
Seligeria
campylopoda Kindb. ex Macoun & Kindb.
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"Quite common and in fine fruit on damp
limestone rocks, Foster's Flats, Niagara River, Ont., May 16th, 1901.
(Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 206.
USA:
Vitt, l976, New York: Buffalo,
Clinton n.s. (MICH, MO, NY);
USA:
Devil's Hole, Clinton,
Oct., 1865 (FH).
CAN: "On limestone rocks, Niagara
River," John Macoun, 11/5, 1901, New York Botanical Garden Mosses from Ontario, Canada.
(No.4). c.fr. (NY)
USA:
Devil's Hole, on stones, Oct. 24, 1866, Clinton
[as Seligeria recurvata; mixed with
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum] [NY]
USA:
Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton [as S.
recurvata] [NYS]
CAN: Niagara on the Lake. Gorge of Niagara River, "First Gorge" on
escarpment at Redan Battery Site on moist rock. det. R. H. Zander 1995
R. H.
Zander 3708 Sept. 29, 1971 (BUF).
USA:
Upper path lower Arch
Bridge, Eckel 2121885
(ALTA, BUF), (Eckel l986a).
USA:
Eckel between steps & Whirlpool 521386 BUF
Seligeria
pusilla (Hedw.) BSG
"Devil's Hole, near
Niagara Falls
(G. W. Clinton) ..." (Lesquereux & James,
1884, p.96‑97). This species was also reported on "Shaded
limestone rocks, St. Louis, Missouri
(Drummond) … New Jersey (Austin);
Kelly's Island, Lake Erie
(Lesquereux)."
Seligeria
recurvata (Hedw.) BSG NY CHECK
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USA:
Rocks in ravines. Devil's hole, Niagara
county … , G. W. Clinton (Peck 1866).
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park.
Cameron 1895.
USA:
Seligeria recurvata Devil's Hole, Niagara
River,
Charles Peck in Day 1883.
USA:
(as S. recurvata var. arcuata) "Devil's Hole, Niagara
(Clinton, Mrs. Roy) …." (Lesquereux & James 1884).
USA: New York: a specimen of George Clinton's,
with no locality was sent to Elizabeth Gertrude Britton by Smith Ely Jecliffe
[?, sp.] on January 23, 1892 on which she had written "probably Niagara
Falls" by her initials (NY).
USA:
Vitt, l976, New York:
Niagara Co., Devil's Hole, Clinton 24 (NY); Goranda (?) [Gowanda] Cuttasanya
[Cattaraugus] Creek, "coll. Fr. H.V.& Fr.
Ph. B." (MO).
USA:
As var. arcuata, previously called Weisia Seligeri, Hook & Wils. in Drumm., "Devil's Hole, Niagara
(Clinton, Mrs. Roy)..." (Lesquereux & James, 1884, p. 97).
USA:
"That little moss sent with letter of Sept. 21 proves to be a very fine
and rare species, viz: Seligeria
recurvata Br. Eur. Mr. Sullivant has described it in his manual or rather
in Gray's Manual 2nd 3d. but I do not know from what
specimens for it is the first time that I see it in America. It is a very good
addition to your catalogue of New
York mosses. I wish you had found it in plenty. I
would have put it in the Musci. I have no doubt that you may find at the same
place S. tristicha which generally
grows with it. It is still shorter and blackens by its foliage the reversed
surface of wet overhanging rocks. Whenever you go to Devil's Hole, please
look for it carefully. Mr. Sullivant has found it around Columbus in a kind of grotto limestone
which has been destroyed long time ago by the process of quarrying limestone.
I could never find it again." Leo Lesquereux to George Clinton,
Oct. 17th, 1865 (vol.2:10)
Sphagnum
imbricatum Hornsch. ex Russ.
"... in damp woods,
near the roundhouse, Niagara Falls,
Ont., May 14th, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 183.
Sphagnum
palustre L.
Sphagnum
cymbifolium (Ehrh.) Hedw.
CAN: As Sphagnum
cymbifolium, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
Sphagnum
nemoreum Scop.
Sphagnum
acutifolium Schrad.
CAN: As Sphagnum
acutifolium, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895
Note that these two localities are probably also
the stations for the bog plants that have been reported for the Niagara Parks
area.
Taxiphyllum deplanatum (Bruch
& Schimp. ex Sull.) Fleisch.
USA: First
Sister Island,
western half, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16345 (BUF, NY), 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16426 (BUF, NY).
Tetraphis
pellucida Hedw. NY CHECK
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
881103 Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); Second Sister Island, west end, tree
roots, wet in high water, Oct. 29, 1988 (BUF); west end, on rotten log, 2
Nov. 1988, Buck 16371 (BUF, NY).
USA:
Goat
Island State Park, oak-maple forest over limestone; Three Sisters Islands,
west end of Second Sister. William R. Buck 16371 Nov. 2, 1988 (BUF, NY).
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara
Falls, northwest and northern river margins. Stumps,
west side. Didymodon fallax. P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. July 15,
1998 (BUF).
Thamnium alleghaniense,
see Thamnobryum alleghaniense (C. Muell.) Nieuwl.
Thamnobryum
alleghaniense (C. Muell.) Nieuwl. NY CHECK
=Hypnum
alleghaniense C.Muell.
=Porotrichum
alleghaniense (C.M.) Grout
USA:
(As Hypnum alleghaniense, C. Mull. [sic]) "Moist rocks along
streams and clefts of rocks on mountains. … Devil's Hole, G. W.
Clinton." (Peck 1866),
USA:
(As Hypnum alleghaniense). Rare.
Devil's Hole, Niagara River. Day 1883.
CAN: (As Hypnum
alleghaniense), Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron, l895.
CAN: (As Thamnium
alleghaniense), Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
USA:
New York:
Devil's Hole, G. W. Clinton (NYS) [glued on card, "1"]
USA:
Clinton
specimen for Devil's Hole under Hypnum alleghaniense C. Muell. herb no.
38733 (BUF).
USA:
Lewiston. Devil's Hole. Niagara River-Valley near Buffalo.
Limestone on rocks in dry creek valley. R. Duell 805 May 19, 1981 (BUF).
Thelia hirtella (Hedw.) Sull. in Sull. & Lesq.
USA: First Sister
Island, western half,
Eckel 880727, July 8, 1987 (BUF).
Thuidium
abietinum (Hedw.) BSG.
= Abietinella abietina (Hedw.) Fleisch.
= Hypnum abietinum Hedw.
USA:
"Rocks. Goat Island, Lesqx. Whirlpool
wood, Niagara Falls,
G. W. Clinton." (Peck 1866).
[No country] Niagara Falls, Francis Wolle, 1873; ex
herb. Coe Finch Austin (NY).
[No country] Hab. Niagara
Falls, Aug. 1873, Francis Wolle, ex herb. Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa.
(NY).
USA:
New York. Niagara Falls, N.Y.
July 1850. "7". Thomas P. James, collector, No. 7. Mosses of Ezra
Michener Herbarium, received from C. L. Shear, June 1930 (US).
USA:
Musci Boreali‑Americani [first edition], W. S.
Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, MDCCCLVI, No. 280. Hab. ... "in insula Goat Island dicta juxta cataractam Niagarae"
(NY).
USA:
No. 413 [second edition Musci Boreali‑Americani] ex herb. Leo
Lesquereux, "... in insula Goat Island
dicta juxta cataractam Niagarae" (NY, also NYS).
CAN: "On dry limestone rocks, Queenston Heights, Ont., May,
1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 284.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park
.Cameron 1895.
CAN: Niagara
Glen (Wintergreen Flats), top dolomite surface of cliff overlooking gorge,
with Tortella tortuosa, Eckel
9302091a, May 6, 1986 (BUF).
USA:
Lewiston. Artpark, alvar on ledges at top of embankment of Niagara River
beside stone piers of old Suspension Bridge, Syntrichia ruralis, Saxifraga
virginiensis, Rumex acetosella. P. M. Eckel s.n. May 24, 2002(BUF).
"A calciphile, on dry, exposed rocks, soil,
or turf, on sand of partially stabilized dunes, among talus at the base of
cliffs, or on humus in open, coniferous stands" Crum & Anderson p.
911.
Thuidium
delicatulum (Hedw.) BSG
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park . Cameron 1895.
USA:
as Hypnum delicatulum L. Devil's Hole, Clinton
specimen 38757.
USA:
(var. delicatulum) 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 881105 Oct. 29, 1988
(BUF).
USA:
Goat
Island State Park, oak-maple forest over limestone; Three Sisters Islands,
west end of Second Sister. William R. Buck 16373 Nov. 2, 1988 (BUF, NY).
CAN: (var. delicatulum) 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; Atrichum undulatum.
P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. Sept. 14, 1998 (BUF); Navy Island in the Niagara River, just
south of Niagara Falls, western side of island. Shaded soil; shore; top of
embankment; + Amblystegium varium; Barbula unguiculata; Anomodon rugelii.
P. M. Eckel with R. Zander s.n. May 13, 1998 (BUF).
Thuidium
pygmaeum BSG NY CHECK
2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List S1
Hypnum pygmaeum (BSG) Sull. et Lesq. is this species.
Note that Thuidium minutulum (Hedw.) BSG,
a moss more closely associated with decayed wood and the bases of trees may be
confused with T. pygmaeum, which is a calcifile. Its habitat is on
rock and has papillose stems and branches. T. minutulum is more northerly in
distribution.
CAN: "Rocks. Foster's Flat, G. W. Clinton.
Rare." (Peck 1866). Since the Peck catalogue was for New York State
it appears Peck was under the impression Clinton's
"Foster's Flat" was in USA.
CAN: (as Hypnum
pygmaeum (BSG) Sull. et Lesq.) Rare. Foster's Flat, Niagara
River, Ont., Day 1883.
USA: Goat Island,
central woods; thin soil on limestone cobbles (Eckel 1990b).
CAN: Clinton
specimen Foster's Flat [May?] 4, herb no 38777 (BUF).
USA:
Niagara (American) Falls, N.Y. on moist
limestone and on small limestone pebbles. A. T. Beals, 26 Aug., 1917 (NY).
USA:
Niagara. On moist limestone and on small
limestone pebbles. A. T. Beals, Aug. 26, 1917 (NY).
CAN: Foster's Flat. G. W. Clinton [glued on card]
(NYS).
CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Base of
boulder, dolomite, N-facing aspect. With Lophocolea heterophylla.
P.M.Eckel 231986 April 11, 1985 (BUF).
Thuidium
recognitum (Hedw.) Lindb.
CAN: 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); with Mnium cuspidatum.
USA:
First of the Three Sisters
Islands off Goat Island in the Niagara River. Dolomite boulder top. West end.
P.M.Eckel 8712251 April 26, 1987 (BUF); Goat Island State Park, oak-maple forest
over limestone; Three Sisters Islands, west end of First Sister. William R.
Buck 16343a Nov. 1, 1988 (BUF,
NY).
Timmia
megapolitana Hedw. NY CHECK
USA:
Zander, Ongiara, lower wet Zander 3521b, (BUF), Eckel l986.
USA:
Devil's Hole upper Eckel 931685 (BUF, NYS), Eckel
l986.
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara
River. Moist, vertical dolomite block in late snow melt, with Conocephalum
conicum. With R. H. Zander P. M. Eckel 23885 April 5, 1985 (BUF).
USA: First Sister
Island, western half,
Eckel 880719, July 8, 1987 (BUF).
Timmia
megapolitana var. bavarica (Hessl.)
Brid.
As Timmia
bavarica Hessler. "On
limestone rocks, Foster's Flats, Niagara
Falls, 1901. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 262.
Tortella
fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr. NY CHECK
[?] Niagara Falls,
Coe Finch Austin, July, 1874 (NYS) [no country indicated on note inside
packet: later prepared external packet indicates New York].
CAN: Table Rock, Niagara Falls, Herb.
Coe Finch Austin,
July, 1874 (NY).
USA:
Goat Island, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Ground, June 1, A. B. [A. Barroni?] ca. 1885 [herb. purchased by Columbia College 1885‑1887]
USA:
Foot of Goat Island,
just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls,
boulder, thin soil, mid-slope. With Hyophila involuta, Hymenostylium
recurvirostrum, Trichostomum crispulum. R. H. Zander 3484b Oct 28, 1970
(BUF).
Tortella
humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.
=Barbula
caespitosa Schwaegr.
USA:
gorge of Niagara River, near bottom of slope just north of
sewage plant, on thin soil over calcareous rock. R. Zander & P. M. Eckel
8511211 Nov. 17, 1985 (BUF).
USA: First Sister
Island, western half, 1
Nov. 1988, Buck 16347 (NY).
Tortella
inclinata (Hedw. f.) Limpr.
=Barbula
inclinatula, C. M. & Kindb. in Mac. &
Kindb.
As Barbula
inclinatula "Sterile specimens collected on limestone rocks along
the Niagara River, near Queenston, Ont., May
13th, 1901, are doubtfully refered here. (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p.
212.
Ireland
and Cain (1975) report this species only from the Bruce
Peninsula in Ontario.
Tortella
tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.
=Barbula
tortuosa, (Hedw.) Web. & Mohr.
=Tortula
tortuosa, Ehrh. (Lesquereux & James, 1884).
USA:
(as Barbula tortuosa) "Rocks. Goat Island,
Lesqux. Common about Niagara Falls, G. W.
Clinton." (Peck 1866).
USA:
"Goat Island, Niagara Falls..." (Lesquereux
& James, 1884, p. 129).
CAN: as Barbula
tortuosa Web. and Mohr) Niagara Falls, Day 1883.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park.
Cameron 1895.
Podpera (1954) cited a specimen from "Niagara."
USA:
Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, MDCCCLVI,
No. 97b [first edition], "Hab. ad rupes calcarias insulae Goat Island dictae, juxta cataractam Niagarae"
(NY.) [Sullivant & Lesquereux, Musci Bor.‑Amer., ed 1, 97b, and ed.
2, 137 (as Barbula):specimen at
CANM with same Latin, numbered no. 137
USA:
Niagara Falls, G. W. Clinton (NYS) [internal
label by Peck: 1 (Niagara) & 2 (Luzerne), G. W. Clinton, 3 (Mt. Marcy)
& 4 (Helderberg Mts.) C. H. Peck, "Coll. N.Y.
State"].
USA: Musci Boreali‑Americani, W. S.
Sullivant et L. Lesquereux, Editio Secunda, 1865, ad rupes calcarias insulae
Goat Island dictae, juxta cataractam Niagarae, same collection as above (NY).
USA:
(as Barbula tortuosa Web. et Mohr) Hab. ad rupes calcarias insulae Goat Island dictae, juxta cataractam Niagarae. (NYS)
[Sullivant & Lesquereus, Musci Bor.‑Amer., ed 2, No. 137] (BUF).
USA: (as Barbula tortuosa
Web. et Mohr.)City of Niagara Falls
On the ground.[hand writte
label] Thomas P. James s.n. July 1860 (BUF).
USA:
Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
G. W. Clinton, ex Coll. Charles H. Peck, Albany, NY
(NY)
USA:
Goat Island, Niagara Falls,
G. W. Clinton, June, 1865, Herb. Coe Finch Austin (NY).
USA: First Sister Island, Niagara Falls, AAAS,
E.G. B & E. A. Rau, Aug. 22d, 1886 (NY, meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science).
USA: Tortella tortuosa (identified
as Barbula fragilis). Niagara Falls, N.Y. "Sister
Id., no. 1." August 22d,
1886. AAAS Mg. E[lizabeth] G B [Britton] & E[ugene]. A. Rau New York
Botanical Garden
[collected during the 1886 meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.]
[No country]: Niagara
Falls, July 18, 1874, herb. Coe Finch Austin (NY)
[inside packet "Niagara River, below the falls, July 18, 1874,
duplicate J.B.S [L.?]"].
[No country]: Niagara
Falls, Rev. Francis Wolle, 1873, Herb. Coe Finch Austin (NY).
USA:
Zander, Whirlpool, upper slopes.
CAN: Niagara Glen, just N of Whirlpool. Moist thin
soil in depressions in ls boulders, Acer - Tsuga canadensis wood. W. Brotherella
recurvans. P.M.Eckel NF17 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF); Niagara Glen, just N of
Whirlpool. Thin soil over limestone boulder, shade. With Anomodon
rostratus, Encalypta procera, Platydictya confervoides. With R.H.Zander.
P.M.Eckel NF1 Feb. 19, 1983 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats) on the Niagara River. Frequent on moist boulders. With R. H.
Zander. P. M. Eckel 13585 April 5, 1985 (BUF); Niagara
River gorge, Niagara Glen, limestone. R. H. Zander & P. M.
Eckel 4724 Mar. 4, 1979 (BUF).
USA:
Between Devil's Hole and Whirlpool steps, Eckel 614486.
USA: Boulder field, halfway down Whirlpool steps,
with Anomodon viticulosus, Bryum lisae var.
cuspidatum, Campylium chrysophyllum,
Gymnostomum aeruginosum, Marchantia
polymorpha, Encalypta procera, May 6, 1986, Eckel 9302092f (BUF).
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 Brachythecium oxycladon, B. curtum,
Eckel, Sept. 23, 1991 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara
Glen (Wintergreen Flats), top dolomite surface of cliff overlooking gorge,
with Thuidium abietinella, Eckel
9302091b, May 6, 1986 (BUF) .
USA:
First of the Three Sisters
Islands just S of Goat Island in the
Niagara River. West end, dolomite boulder,
w. Bryoeryth. recurv., Timmia megapolitana,
Anomodon attenuatus, etc. P. M. Eckel 880728 July 8, 1987
(BUF).
Tortula
mucronifolia Schwaegr. NY CHECK
USA:
(As Barbula mucronifolia Schwaegr.)
"Stones; Devil's Hole and Portage,
G. W. Clinton." (Peck 1866).
USA:
(As Barbula mucronifolia Schwaegr.)
Devil's Hole, Niagara River, Day 1883.
USA: North American Mosses, Eugene A. Rau,
Bethlehem, Pa., Hab. banks of Luna Island, Niagara Falls, Aug., 1886 (NY), c.
fr.
USA:
Niagara Falls, Rev. Francis Wolle, 1873, c.
fr. (NY).
USA: (as Barbula mucronifolia) Luna Island,
Niagara Falls,
N.Y. E. G. Britton & E. A. Rau. Aug. 21, 1886, North American Mosses
named and presented by E. G. Britton, Aug. 21, 1886.
USA: (as Barbula
mucronifolia) Hab. banks of Luna Island, Niagara Falls, North American
Mosses, Aug. 1886, Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. [printed label] (NY).
USA: (as Barbula
mucronifolia) Hab. banks of Luna Island, Niagara Falls, North American
Mosses [printed label], August 1886 Eugene A. Rau, Bethlehem, Pa. [printed
label] [New York Botanical Garden] (NY).
USA:
Luna Island,
Niagara Falls,
E. G. Brisson, E. A. Rau: AAAS Meeting, Aug. 21, 1886 (NY), c.fr. [= American
Association for the Advancement of Science].
USA:
Zander, Ongiara, lower slopes; Ongiara Gorge, between the (S) Whirlpool and the stone steps (N)
descending to the Niagara River. With Didymodon
rigidulus, Encalypta. P.M.Eckel 622386 Mar. 21, l986 (BUF).
USA:
Eckel between steps Whirlpool 821386 BUF.
USA:
Luna Island,
1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16329 (BUF,
NY).
USA: First Sister
Island, western half,
Eckel 880718, July 8, 1987 (BUF).
USA: First Sister
Island, eastern half, Eckel 880708,
July 8, 1988 (BUF).
USA: Third Sister
Island, west end, in
small solution vugs in dolomite, P. M. Eckel 8612338, April 27, 1986 (BUF).
USA:
Green Island
on the Niagara River, just No of Goat
Island. Old dolomite ballast on south side, wet to moist river margin. With Pottia
truncata, Phascum cuspidatum. P.M. Eckel, Marguerite P. Eckel 9004156
April 15 1990 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara Glen, N of the Whirlpool of the Niagara
River. In lawns above the crest, dolomite exposures: on edge of
the soil mat. P. M. Eckel 8612337 May 6, l986 (BUF).
CAN: Niagara Glen (Foster's Flats).
On rock, halfway down to Niagara River,
dolomite boulder field. With Didymodon rigidulus, Fissidens bryoides. P.M.Eckel
1074901 April 11, 1985 (BUF).
Tortula
ruralis (Hedw.) Gaertn., Meyer & Scherb.
CAN: As Barbula
ruralis Hedw, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park.Cameron 1895; Macoun (p.
58, 1892) cited a specimen of Cameron's from Niagara Falls.
USA:
First of Three Sisters Eckel 19786 BUF, NYS (Eckel, l986b).
CAN: Dufferin
Islands, mats on soil,
Eckel & Zander 9304221 (BUF).
USA:
Lewiston. Artpark, alvar on ledges at top of embankment of Niagara River
beside stone piers of old Suspension Bridge, Ceratodon purpureus,
Saxifraga virginiensis, Rumex acetosella. P. M. Eckel s.n. May 24, 2002(BUF).
USA:
Gorge of Niagara
River, below Schoelkopf
Museum, on limestone
about 1/5 way up from river. Richard H. Zander & P. Eckel 8704231 April
16, 1987(BUF).
Tortula
subulata Hedw.
Barbula
subulata (Hedw.) P. Beauv.
Given as questionable in Ontario,
lit for YT and positive for BC in Ireland et al mosses of Canada, 1980
As Barbula
subulata (Hedw.) P. Beauv.
"... on
earth on rock, Niagara River, Ont.
(Macoun.)," Macoun, 1902, p. 214.
This western species intergrades with Tortula mucronifolia in the west (Lawton, 1971). Macoun's specimens from Niagara
are probably T. mucronifolia.
Trichostomum
crispulum Bruch in F. A. Muell.
Trichostomum
crispulum has remained ignored for the area N of Mexico, probably due to
its confusion with related taxa and Weisia
species, there being no
fruiting material. However, according
to Zander (study in preparation), this species grows
abundantly throughout Mexico
and is indeed Trichostomum crispulum,
with typical cuculate apex, etc. This species may be new to eastern North America
USA:
Goat Island. Central Acer‑Fraxinus
mixed old woods, soil, west end of woods in spray zone of the Horseshoe Falls. Sandy
loam. Eckel & Eckel, April 15, 1990, No. 9004273 (BUF).
USA: Foot of Goat Island, just outside spray area
of Horseshoe Falls, boulder, thin soil, mid‑slope, with Hyophila involuta, Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, Tortella
fragils, R. H. Zander 3484a, Oct. 28, 1970 (BUF).
USA: Trichostomum crispulum.
Just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls,
boulder, thin soil, midslope, with Hyophila involuta, Hymenostylium
recurvirostrum, Tortella fragilis, Zander 3484a Oct. 28,
1979 (BUF).
Weisia
brachycarpa (Nees & Hornsch.) Jur.
As Weissia hedwigii 2005 Rare Plant Bryophyte Status List S1
CAN: City of Niagara Falls, base of wooded embankment
overlooking the horseshoe Falls. In spray on calcareous clay in lawn, May 27,
1991 P. M. Eckel no. 9302250 (BUF), with Barbula
unguiculata, Amblystegium varium Physcomitrium turbinatum, Fissidens
taxifolius.
Weisia
controversa Hedw. NY CHECK
USA:
Upper great gorge. S of sewerplant, Eckel 29786 (BUF)
USA: bluffs overlooking Lewiston, dry Oak-Hickory old growth, on
soil with Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Eckel June 9, 1995) MO, c. fr.
deoperculating.
USA: Luna
Island, 1 Nov. 1988, William R. Buck
16315 (BUF, NY).
USA: First
Sister Island,
western half, small population, dolomite boulder, with Tortula mucronifolia,
synoicous, 8706070, 1986; 1 Nov. 1988, William R. Buck 16340 (BUF, NY).
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