Preliminary Cryptogamic (Moss, Lichen and Liverwort) Flora of the Canadian and American Gorge at Niagara Falls 4. Algae

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

http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/ResBot/index.htm

June 21, 2004

 

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

4. Algae

 

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

 

 

CHAROPHYTA

 

Chara globularis Thuill.

 

CAN: Hydro Property Rd. just N of Wintergreen Flats (Niagara Glen), 1/4 way down road in calcareous seep, abundant, below dolomite caprock.  c. R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 881027 Oct. 3, 1988 (BUF).

 

CAN: Just N of Miller's Creek, Niagara Parkway. Shore of the Niagara River in periodically inundated wet soil. w. R. Zander. P. M. Eckel 881025 Oct. 3, 1988 (BUF).

 

CAN: Navy Island in the Niagara River, just south of Niagara Falls. Northwest river margin. Nitella? Chara? Abundant offshore, shallow water, visible with low water levels. P. M. Eckel with R. H. Zander s.n. July 2, 1998 (BUF) (as Chara fragilis Desv.).

 

Erie Co. City of Buffalo. main channel of the Niagara River, shallows S of Motor Island, in dense water-weed community, with Vallisneria americana, Zannichellia palustris. P. M. Eckel s.n. July 12, 2001 (BUF).

 

Miscellaneous Algae.

 

Cladophora glomerata  fide Russell - ! [sic]

 

CAN: Niagara Falls - on rocks below the River's edge. Canada shore. [label hand-written] M[arion] J[essup] W[right] (BUF).

 

Trentepohlia sp.

  

[CAN:] (as Chroolepus aureus Kuetzing var. glomera) Whirlpool wood. Bright orange when living. Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N.Y. (BUF).

 

[From George W. Clinton's collecting diary:[1867]    May 11. "Dined, at Mr. Willey's, &, after dinner, Mr. W. & I walked in the Whirlpool Wood. On rocks, near the bank, found an orange-colored vegetable forming patches, it was felt-like on the stone, & the orange upper portion is conferva like, made up of short, distinct fibres. Walked to the Falls, &  home by the 6*35' train."

 

"A conferva unknown to me" 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) perhaps Trentepohlia.

 

 

LITERATURE CITED

 

Bleekman, Francis. 1934. Rare Moss Discovered. Hobbies 14(3), Feb.

 

Cameron, R. l895. Catalogue of Plants which have been found growing without cultivation in the park and its outlying territories. Collected, mounted and catalogued for the park herbarium in the Superintendent's Office. from the Appendix to the 10th Annual...Commissions for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park. Note the typesetter's nightmare this manuscript must have been ‑ quite a number of errors and misplacement of taxa (mosses with lichens, v. end of list)

 

Cook, F. S. 1985. The moss Kindbergia praelonga (Hedw.) Ochyra: discovered in Haliburton Co., Ontario. The Plant Press. Vol. 3 No. 4. p. 129.

 

Crum, H. 1981. An Inventory of John Macoun's Canadian Musci. Occasional Papers of the Farlow Herbarium, Vol. 16. pp. 13-36.

 

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Day, David F. l882. The Plants of Buffalo and Its Vicinity: Series I, Phaenogamae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 4(3). April. pp. 65‑279.

 

Day, David F. 1883. The Plants of Buffalo and Its Vicinity. Series II, Cryptogamae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 4(4): 153-254.

 

Drummond, T. Musci Americani: or, specimens of the mosses collected in British North America, and Chiefly among the Rocky Mountains, during the second land Arctic expedition under the command of Captain Franklin, R.N., by Thomas Drummond, Assistant Naturalist to the Expedition. Vol. 1, nos 1‑58; Vol. II, numbers 159‑286. Glasgow, 1828. (cited in Sayre, 1971).

 

Eckel, P. M. l986a. New distribution records of mosses from western New York State (District 5). Clintonia, Magazine of the Niagara Frontier Botanical Society. 1(2):4‑5.

 

‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑, l986b. More moss records from western New York State (District 5).  Clintonia. Vol. 1(4):6‑7.

 

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

 

----------, 1988. Weissia hedwigii on Goat Island, second locality in New York State. 1988. Clintonia 3(3): 8-9 (M. P. Eckel, junior author).

 

 ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑. 1990a. Eucladium verticillatum (Musci: Pottiaceae) second Ontario collection. 1990. Evansia 7: 15.

 

-----------. 1990b. Botanical Evaluation of the Goat Island Complex, Niagara Falls, New York. 1990. Buffalo Museum of Science Web site, January 29, 2002 (presently: Res Botanica, Missouri Botanical Garden, http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/ResBot).

 

‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑  & J. Shaw. 1991. Bryum rubens from Niagara Falls, New to New York State. Bryologist 94(1):80‑81.

 

----------, Weissia brachycarpa (Musci: Pottiaceae) new to the Province of Ontario.  1997. Canadian Field Naturalist 111: 318-319.

 

----------,.Weissia brachycarpa (Nees & Hornsch.) Jur., a second Ontario collection. 1999. Evansia 16(3): 147.

 

Grout, A. J. 1939. Moss Flora of North America. Vol.1(4), Newfane, Vermont.

 

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Ireland, R. R., C. D. Bird, G. R. Brassard, W. B. Schofield & D. H. Vitt. 1980. Checklist of the mosses of Canada. Nat. Mus. Canada Publ. Bot. 8: 1-75.

 

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Knobloch, Irving W. 1934. A few liverworts unreported from western New York. The Bryologist 37:10-11.

 

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Macoun, J. 1901. Addendum to Part VI. in Catalogue of Canadian Plants. Part VII. Lichenes and Hepaticae. Geological Survey of Canada. Government Printing Bureau, pp. 181‑318. 

 

Macoun, J. & N. C. Kindberg. 1892. Catalogue of Canadian Plants. Part VI. Musci. Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada. Canadian Government Publication. William Foster Brown & Co., Montreal. 

 

Peck, Charles H.  1883. Musci pp. 157-165; Hepaticae pp. 165 - 166 in Day, David F. 1883. The Plants of Buffalo and Its Vicinity. Series II, Cryptogamae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 4(4): 153-254.

 

Peck, Charles H. 1866. "List of Mosses of the State of New-York" pp. 42-70 (musci and hepaticae).19th Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the Historical and Antiquarian Collection Annexed Thereto. State of New York Senate document no. 89.

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Severance, Frank H. 1911. Studies of the Niagara Frontier, Vol. XV, Buffalo Historical Society, p. 205.

 

Wilson, Mary. 1883.  Lichenes pp 167 - 173 in Day, David F. 1883. The Plants of Buffalo and Its Vicinity. Series II, Cryptogamae. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 4(4): 153-254.

 

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