Tortula.] 5. TORTULEZ. 147 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, ad pontem Agoyan prope Baños (5500 ped.), 
Spruce, n. 214; Quito, Jameson; Chili, ew Herb. Montagne. 
Caulis 3-6 lineas altus. Folia 1} lineam longa, obscure flavo-viridia, 
inferiora fusca, sicca incurva, crispata. Pedunculus 4-linearis. Theca 
lineam longa. 
2. T. JAMAICENSIS (Mitt.). Dioica? caulis brevis, ramosus. Folia a 
basi erecta patentia, marginibus involutis, nervo excurrente, cellulis basi- 
laribus oblongis pellucidis, superioribus minutis obscuris minutissime 
papillosis; perichetialia eonformia. "Theca in pedunculo rubro elongato, 
cylindracea, lutea, ore intensius colorato. 
Hab. Ins. Jamaica, inter Marchantias, Wilds. 
Caulis 3-uncialis. Folia 13 lineam longa, sicca incurva, contorta. Pe- 
duncuius $-uncialis. 
3. T. RrvALIS (Mitt.). Humilis. Folia a basi latiore erectiore pa- 
tentia, nervo in mucronem brevissimum excurrente, marginibus inflexis 
canaliculata, cellulis basilaribus pellucidis, externis oblongis, interioribus 
elongatis, superioribus rotundatis obscuris fere opacis; perichzetialia erec- 
tiora, a basi oblonga, convoluta, pallida, subulata, obscura. Theca in 
pedunculo elongato rubro, cylindracea, operculo subulirostrato. 
Trichostomum canaliculatum, Hampe; Sulliv. in Proc. Amer. Acad. 
1861. 
Hab. Ins. Cuba, ad rivulos, Wrig/t, n. 23. 
Caulis 2-3 lineas altus. Folia 1j lineam longa, viridia, sicca crispata. 
Pedunculus 6-linearis. Theca lineam longa. 
4. T. ANDINA (Sulliv. U. St. Expl. Exp. 1859, 5, cum ic.). Doten, 
subsimplex. Folia sicca appresso-crispata, humectata patentissima cana- 
liculata, usque ad apicem incurvum late costata. Capsula ovalis, ma- 
crostoma, late annulata, collo tumido. 
Hab. Andes Peruvianz, 15,000 ped. 
One inch high. Leaves from an erect, oblong, amplexicaul 
base, incurved at the apex ; areolation minute, dense, roundish in 
the upper portion of the leaf; capsule erect, oval, with a con- 
spieuous collum, operculum erect, long, rostrate ; teeth of peri- 
stome much as in Trichostomum crispulum (from Europe), but the 
differently shaped leaves, collum of the capsule, and annulus se- 
parate it.—Sulliv. l. c. 
5. T. covroRTIFOLIA (Mitt.). Dioica?, humilis. Folia cellulis elon- 
gatis pellucidis areolata, divergentia, canaliculata, nervo brevissime ex- 
currente, marginibus erectis integerrimis, cellulis rotundatis obscuris fere 
opacis; perichzetialia in dimidio inferiore ovali-convoluta, erecta, in su- 
periore subulata, patenti-recurva. Theca in pedunculo rubro flexuoso, 
cylindracea, operculo dimidio breviore subulato, cellulis spiraliter adscen- 
dentibus areolato. 
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