56 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
1. p. 409).— Azores (Watson ).— Distrib.: Canaries, 
Madeira. 
This moss, of which I have been able, thanks to the generosity of M. 
F. Camus, to study an original specimen (Canaries, leg. Riedle, ex herb. 
Richard), seems to me not sufficiently distinct from the small forms of 
L. glaucum. The broadness of the hyaline border of the leaf, which 
is quoted by Bride! as distinctive for his Dicranum juniperoideum, proves 
to be variable in the Azorean specimens I have examined. 
Fisstipens Hedw. 
11. F. serruxatus Brid. Mant. p. 190 et Bryol. Univ. 1. 
p. 704.—Sta. Maria (Godman). San Miguel (Ma- 
chado ).— Distrib. : Canaries, Madeira, Algeria, South 
Europe, England. 
12. F. ASPLENIOIDES (Sw. ) Hedw. Musc. Frond. ur. p. 65, 
t. 28. (#. jlabellatus Hornsch, Fl. Bras. fase. 1. p. 
91, t. m. f. 11?).— San Miguel (Godman). Sta. Maria 
(Trelease, Pl. Az. no. 1383, c).— Distrib. : Canaries, 
Madeira, tropical America, New Zealand, Tasmania, 
Tristan d’Acunha. 
Mr. Mitten refers the Brazilian F. jlabellatus Hornsch. to F. aspleni- 
oides Hedw., and quotes this last as pertaining to the Azores, Madeira 
and the Canaries. According to a recent communication of M. Bescherelle, 
Swartz’s type of Dicranum asplenioides from Jamaica has the leaves nar- 
rowed, then broadly acuminate, and thereby differs from the South 
American specimens, which themselves are not identical with each other, 
but have generally more obtuse leaves than the type from Jamaica. The 
moss gathered by Mr. Trelease at Sta. Maria, in sterile state, has short 
stems, leaves in 10-12 pairs, obtuse, shorter and less obscurely areolate 
than in the South American specimens. I do not venture, however, to 
separate it from F. asplenioides Hedw., being at present unable to decide 
whether this species constitutes a polymorphous, widely distributed 
type, or whether there is, under this name, confusion of several distinct 
species. 
Crratopon Brid. 
13. C. purpurevs (Linn.) Brid. Bryol. Univ. 1. p. 480.— 
Sta. Maria (Trelease, Pl. Az. no. 1383, 6 in part). 
Graciosa (Blanchy ).— Distrib. : throughout the world. 
