FUNARBRIOIDEAE.  TAYLORIA. 135 
Eremodon spathulatus Hook, et Wils. iù Lond. Journ. of bot. 
1846. p. 448. Tab. XV. B. 
Patria. America meridionalis: Lobb. No. 105. 
Species nobis haud visae descriptione atqueicone Wil- 
soni ad praecedentem adeo accedens, ut, synonymam esse, 
putemus. Folia tamen argute serrata non lobato- ciliata 
appellantur et operculum conicum, dentes lato-lanceo- 
lati e basi usque ad apicem coaliti delineantur, in con- 
textu diagnosis pallidi tandem nominantur. 
4. T. Jamesoni C. Müll. (mst.); laxe cespitosa elon- 
gata erecta subsimplex; folia remota vix imbricata spa- 
thulato- ovata obtusa exrcurrentinervia margine incras- 
sata (the margins thickened) apice denticulata ; perichae- 
tialia caulinis similia; pedunculus erectus apice crassus; 
theca subaequalis oblonga erecta, operculo conico apiculato 
recto; dentes 16 aequidistantes lanceolati erectiusculi per- 
sistentes; calyptra elongato- conica basi fissa scabra (ex 
ie. Wils.) basi inflata inflexa vix constricta. T. 
Brachymitrium Jamesoni Tayl. Lond, Journ, of bot. 1846. p. 44. 
— Wilson ibidem p. 448, tab. XV. A., ad Eremodontem vel Taylo- . 
riam pertinere monens. 
Patria. Yn sylvis montis nivosi Pichinchae prope 
Quito Andium tract. 
Ex observationibus Cl. Wilsoni (l. c.) Tuyloriae 
Rudolphianae affinis, calyptra scabra autem ab omnibus 
notis congeneribus distinctissima. Forsan ad sectionem 
secundam pertinens? 
B. Peristomii dentes per paria conjuncti demum 
omnes fere liberi. 
5. T. splachnoides Hook. (Journ. of Science and 
the Arts No. 3. p. 144.); laxa cespitosa, elata; folia infe- 
riora oblonga, superiora obovato -acuminata et elongato- 
lanceolata, ad medium usque. grosse dentata, nervo sub 
apice evanido; theca in pedunculo elongato tenuis erecta 
v. subobliqua oblonga v. subcylindrica , collo. longissimo 
angustiore , operculo /onge conico instructa; peristomii den- 
tes longissimi humiditate involuti, siccitate reflexi, cir- 
