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PRELIMINARY CRYPTOGAMIC (MOSS, LICHEN AND LIVERWORT) FLORA OF THE
CANADIAN AND AMERICAN GORGE AT NIAGARA FALLS
3. Liverworts
P. M. Eckel, Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box
299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA
HEPATICAE (Liverworts)
Chiloscyphus polyanthos Corda
USA: Niagara. City of Niagara Falls.
Whirlpool Wood. George W. Clinton "No. 1" May 20, 1860's (BUF).
Common in the British Isles, it grows on wet
rocks and soil by streams and rivers.
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Dumort.
USA: Niagara Falls. A. Goat
Island. Fem.
B. Bergen
Swamp. Masc. [label
handwritten] ex coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo,
N. Y. (BUF) [1860's].
USA:
(As Fegetalla conica
Corda.) Goat Is., Niagara Falls (Charles Peck in Day 1883).
USA:
As Fegetalla conica, Corda. Goat Is., Niagara
Falls.. Day 1883.
CAN: Conocephalum
conicum (L.) Dumort."...
on old logs, Foster's Flats, Niagara Falls, May, 16th, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1901,
p. 5.
CAN: Flegetalla (conocephalus) conica, Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park . Cameron 1895.
CAN: Niagara Glen on the Niagara River.
Abundant on rather sheltered moist dolomite blocks, very visible, with Timmia austriaca, and most
other mosses requiring shade. P.M.Eckel 1931185
April 5, 1985 (BUF); Niagara Glen (Foster's
Flats).
Boulder field. Base of dolomite block, shaded
woodland, seepage, with Hymenostylium recurvirostrum. P.M.Eckel
625086 April 11, 1985 (BUF).
USA:
Goat
Island State Park, oak-maple forest over limestone; Three Sisters Islands,
west end of First Sister. Wm. R. Buck 16343 1 Nov 1988 (BUF); First Sister Island,
western half, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16337 (BUF,
NY).
CAN: Eckel, Foster's abundant
in boulder field and N‑facing rocks.
USA: Second Sister
Island, west end, north
side rocks above waterline [obs. 1988].
Cyathophora quadrata (Scop.) Trevis
CAN: "... crevices of rocks, Foster's Flats,
Niagara Falls,
May 16th, 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun,
1901, p. 5
Frullania eboracensis Gottsche
CAN: "... on trees, Queenston Heights, Ont., 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1901,
p. 46
NY: Buckhorn
Island State
Park, small population base of living Ulmus americana
dominant in woods SW sector south of clay berm,
Zander, April 26, 1998 (BUF).
Lophocolea
minor
USA: First
Sister Island,
western half, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16344 (BUF,
NY).
USA: Second
Sister Island,
west end, on rotten log, 2 Nov. 1988, Buck 16386 (BUF, NY).
Marchantia polymorpha L.
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park . Cameron, l895.
USA:
Zander, Devil's Hole Eckel.
CAN: Zander Horseshoe spray.
Nowellia curvifolia (Dicks.) Mitt.
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 Mnium punctatum v. punct.
P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Plagiochila asplenioides (L.) Dumort.
CAN: "... on clay banks, Queenston Heights, Ont., 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1901, p.
24.
Plagiochila poreloides Lindenb.
Can: Frenchman's Creek (Charles Peck in Day 1883).
Porella platyphylla (L. ) Linde
CAN: "... on trees, Queenston Heights, Ont., 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1901,
p. 43.
Preissia commutata (Scop.) Nees
USA:
"Shaded wet places, ravines. .. Niagara Falls, G. W.
Clinton (Peck 1866),
USA:
Niagara Falls, near the American staircase
(Charles Peck in Day
1883).
USA: Niagara Falls
(A.2 with sterile receptacles [with two other specimens]
[label handwritten] ex coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N. Y. (BUF).
USA:
Three Sisters, Niagara Falls,
Aug. 21, 1886, E. G. Britton, 1890, comm. (NY) (as Preissia hemisphaerica).
USA:
foot of Goat Island,
just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls,
vertical rock face of gorge. With Hymenostylium recurvirostrum.
R. H. Zander 3492b Oct. 28, l979 (BUF); foot of Goat
Island, spray zone of Horseshoe Falls, near river, underside of
large boulder. det. R. H.
Zander R. H. Zander 3467 Oct. 28, l979 (BUF).
Preissia hemisphaerica
CAN: Queen
Victoria Niagara
Falls Park . Cameron l895.
Preissia quadrata (Scop) Nees
USA: George Clinton noted in his journal
on August 8, 1865 "on wet, wettish rocks, at
& above top of talus, everywhere here [at the American Staircase] &
on Goat Island, below Biddle Staircase Preissia commutata
[= P. quadrata], now past fruit,
abundant."
Goat Island, Niagara Falls, Aug. 1886, Lucius M. Underwood (NY) (as Preissia
hemisphaerica).
USA:
boulder field, halfway down Whirlpool steps, May 6, 1987, Eckel 9302093
(BUF).
USA: spray zone of Horseshoe
Falls, near river, underside of large boulder, Zander 3467, Oct.28, 1979
(BUF); just outside spray area of Horseshoe Falls, vertical rock face of
gorge, with Hymenostylium recurvirostum, Zander 3492b, Oct.28, 1979 (BUF).
USA: First
Sister Island,
western half, 1 Nov. 1988, Buck 16349 (BUF,
NY).
Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Web.) Hampe
CAN: Navy Island
in the Niagara River 43*03'N, 79*01'W, just south of Niagara Falls. W side; fallen log; with Hypnum imponens, Dicranum flagellare
& montana.
P. M. Eckel s.n. Sept. 21, 1998 (BUF).
Radula complanata (L.) Dumort.
"... on rocks and trees, Queenston Heights, Ont., 1901 (Macoun.)," Macoun, 1901,
p. 42.
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) G. L. & N.
USA:
Zander, Ongiara Eckel.
Riccardia pinguis (L.) Gray.
With moss Hymenostylium recurvirostrum on talus slope at base of Goat Island,
near Horseshoe falls, near spray zone, R.
Zander No. 9010051, Oct. 5, 1990 (BUF).
Riccia fluitans L.
CAN: In stagnant water near the round‑house,
Montrose, Ont., July, 1897. (R. Cameron.)," Macoun,
1901, p. 1.
USA:
Burnt Ship Bay, Grand Is., Niagara River (Charles Peck in Day 1883).
Ricciocarpus natans (L.) Corda.
CAN: "In a stagnant pool near Montrose round‑house,
Ont., July, 1897. (R, Cameron.)
USA:
Burnt Ship Bay, Grand Is., Niagara River (Charles Peck in
Day 1883).
CAN: ...in pools at Niagara Falls, May 13th, 1901 (Macoun.)" Macoun, 1901,
p.2.
Trichocolea tomentella Nees
CAN: ... Whirlpool, Ont. (Charles Peck in Day 1883).
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