518 17. STEREODONTE X. [ Ectropotheciwm. 
gerrima. Theca in pedunculo elongato pendula, ovalis, operculo conico, 
acuminato. 
Hypnum Montagnei, Schimp.; Sulliv. in Proceed. Amer. Acad. 
Hab. Ins. Cuba, Wright, n. 120, ex parte. 
Caulis ramis 2-linearibus dense pinnatus, cum foliis 3 linea angustior. 
Folia flavescentia. Pedunculus 10-linearis. 
22. E. FLAVOVIRIDE (Mitf.). Pinnatim ramosum, prostratum. Folia 
compressa, superiora lanceolata, sensim acuminata, lateralia patentia, in- 
feriora e basi late ovato-subulata, omnia nervis brevibus, marginibus 
integerrimis, cellulis ellipticis laxis pellucidis, ramea apicibus subserru- 
latis minus tenuiter acuminatis, czeterum conformia ; perichztialia patula, 
late ovata, subulata, integerrima. Theca in pedunculo elongato. 
Hab. Ins. Cuba, Wright, n. 120, ex parte. 
Folia flavo-viridia. 
23. E. vEstCULARE (Schwegr. t. 199, Hypnum).  Depresse czespito- 
sum. Folia compressa, superiora ovata lateque ovalia, breviter acumi- 
nata, inferiora minora difformia, lanceolato-ovata, acuminata, ramea late 
ovata, interdum subrotundata, breviter acuminata, inferiora minora diver- 
siformia, omnia nervis brevibus obsoletisve, marginibus apice subserrulatis, 
cellulis laxis ovalibus utriculo repletis; perichztialia patentia, ovata, 
subulato-acuminata. Theca in peduneulo elongato, breviter ovalis, pen- 
dula, operculo acuminato, peristomii interni ciliis binis. 
Hookeria Poeppigiana, Hampe, Ic. Musc. t. 4. 
H. prelongum, W. Arn. Disp. Mouss. 56, ex obs. Wils. in Lond. Journ. 
of Bot. 1848, 278. 
Hab. Ins. Jamaica, Reider. Andes Peruvianz, ad ostia rivuli Cum- 
basa (1300 ped.), Spruce, n. 1145; Chuchero, Peppig. 
Caulis pinnatus, ramis brevibus 2-3-linearibus, latitudine cum foliis 
lineam dimidiam parum excedentibus. Folia viridia, planiuscule com- 
pressa. 
24. E. SUBDENTICULATUM (C. Müll. Syn. ii. 242, Hypnum). Caulis 
procumbens. Folia in seriebus superioribus ovato-acuminata, lateralia 
secunda, lanceolata, subulata, acuminata, inflexa, in seriebus inferioribus 
minora, diversiformia, ramea compressa, superiora ovata, acuminata, non- 
nullis intermixtis lanceolatis acuminatis, inferiora minora, lanceolata, omnia 
margine apicem versus subserrulata, nervis obsoletis, cellulis oblongo- 
ellipticis laxis; perich:etialia a basi ovali longe subulato-attenuata, remote 
subserrulata. Theca “oblonga, ore constricta, operculo turgide et de- 
presse cupulato, obliqua, rostrata, submamillata." 
Hab. Ins. Jamaica, Heward ; Trinidad, Crüger; Porto Rico, Bertero; 
Venezuela, Funck et Schlim, n. 353; Surinam, Weigelt, Kegel. Andes 
Peruviane, ad fl. Huallaga in lignis (1200 ped.), Spruce, n. 1152; in mon- 
tibus Campana (3500 ped.) Spruce, n. 1153, et Guayrapurina (3000 
ped.), n. 1154, secus Tarapoto (1500 ped.), Spruce, n. 1155. 
Color e viridi fulvescens, demum flavescens. 
