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making the change at present, however, as there are some differences in the descriptions that 
should be verified or disproved, the capsule of D. compacta being described as “‘cernua, incurva, 
pallida aurantiaca.’ 
“9. Dicranella subinclinata Lorentz, Moosst. 160. 1864. 
Dicranum caespitans Schimp.; Besch. Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 164. 1872. 
Dicranella stenocarpa Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 182. 1876. 
Dicranella Martinicae Broth. Symb. Ant. 3:421. 1903. 
Plants in rather loose, dull-green or brown tufts; stems mostly simple, about 1 em. high, 
with the leaves erect-appressed, somewhat curved when dry, erect-spreading when moist: 
stem-leaves below small, gradually larger upward, about 1.5 mm. long, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate with more or less recurved margins, a stout not quite percurrent costa, 60-70 
wide at the base, and a narrowly obtuse, crenate apex; upper leaf-cells short, rectangular, 
‘mostly not more than twice as long as wide, 6—7 uw by 12-16 yp, the lower ones larger but mostly 
narrow, with colored, scarcely thinner walls to near the base; perichaetial leaves about 2.5 
mim. long, from a scarcely clasping, ovate-lanceolate base gradually narrowed to a lanceolate- 
linear limb about twice as long, with recurved margins and an obtuse, cfenate-toothed apex: 
seta reddish, at least when old, straight or somewhat flexuous, 1-1.5 cm. long: capsule sym- 
metric, oval, smooth, erect or inclined, more or less contracted under the mouth when dry, 
with a large annulus and long, obliquely-rostrate lid; peristome-teeth 250-275 yu high, vertically 
striate below and papillose above, divided more than two thirds down into slender, papillose 
segments: spores 16-18 » in diameter, finely papillose. 
‘TYPE Locality: Near Panama. : at ae { Nie ee Ny 
DistRiButIon: Mexico; Panama; Jamaica; Martinique. “7 Sika ea 
‘ "This species is larger than either D. Hilariana and D. Herminieri, with leaf-celis more solid and 
regular than in the first and not so long and narrow as in the second, and the capsule, when dry and 
empty, ee elongate and contracted under the mouth than in either. 
Dicranella reticulata (C. Miill.) Paris, Index Bryol. 
Suppl. 118. 1900., 
Angstroemia reticulata C. Mill. Hedwigia 37: 228. 1898. 
Plants in rather lax, green cushions; stems up to 1.5 cm. high, mostly simple, sometimes 
branching above: stem-leaves 1-1.5 mm. long, distant, from a scarcely clasping base rather 
gradually narrowed to a slightly incurved-spreading limb, entire or denticulate at the apex, 
with a percurrent costa and a distinct leaf-blade above; costa ta at the base about 65 » wide; 
leaf-cells rectangular, toward the base about 8 » wide and from nearly square at the margin 
to about four times as long as wide near the costa, the upper cells smaller, up to about twice 
as long as wide; perichaetial leaves up to 3 mm. long or more, from a clasping, often somewhat 
obovate base abruptly or truncately narrowed to a flexuous point 3-4 times as long as the 
clasping part, the leaf-blade more or less distinct to the apex; cells of perichaetial leaves below 
mostly long-rectangular, 8-12 » wide and up to 100 uw long: seta pale, up to 10 mm. long: cap- 
sule oval, erect, more or less furrowed when dry, 1.5 mm. long with an abruptly rostrate lid 
nearly as long;, annulus large; peristome-teeth 200 u or more high, divided two thirds down, 
vertically striate below and densely papillose above: spores rough, often coarsely papillose, 
18-23 » in diameter. payne aes 
TYPE LocaLity: Cuba. . | 
DistRIBUTION: Cuba; Jamaica; Guadeloupe. 
Exsice.: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 36. 
11. Dicranella crispa (Ehrh.) Schimp. Coroll. Bryol. Eur. 13. 1855. 
Dicranum crispum Ehrh.; Hedw. Descr. 2:91. 1789. 
Plants in loose, mostly light-green mats; stems more or less branching, 5-12 mm. high, 
with rather distant, spreading-flexuous leaves: stem-leaves from an ovate or lanceolate, not 
or loosely clasping base, gradually narrowed to a very slender limb two to three times as long 
with nearly or quite entire, somewhat incurved margins and an acute, serrulate apex; costa 
excurrent, rather pale below, a little above the base about 40 » wide and one sixth of the leaf- 
width, with the blade very narrow and indistinct some distance below its apex; leaf-cells 
narrowly rectangular, those in the upper part of the blade 5 » wide and 6-8 times as long, 
