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and Tortola by N. L. Britton and J. A. Shafer, and those from St. 

 Croix by J. N. Rose. The report records also two specimens collected 

 by C. H. Ostenfeld in 1914, one on St. Thomas and one on St. Jan. 



1. Riccia Brittoxii M. A. Howe. 15 



St. Thomas: on the ground, Water Island, N. L. Britton, E. G. 

 Britton & J. A. Shafer 148 (a much larger plant than the original). 



2. Plagiochila ludovictaxa Sulliv. 



St. Jan: on wet rocks, Bethania, 360. St. Thomas: on rocks, 

 St. Peter, 1453. 



3. Radula pallens (Sw.) Dumort. 



St. Croix: without definite locality, collector unknown, cited in 

 the Synopsis Hepaticarum. 



4. Cololejeuxea myriocarpa (Nees & Mont.) Evans. 

 Lejeunea epiphyta Gottsche. 



St. Croix: without definite locality. St. Jax: near Bethania, 

 /. C. Breutel. St. Thomas: on rotten wood, near Magin's Bay, 1317. 

 Tortola: on a rock, Road Town to High Bush, 325 m. alt., 786 (a 

 trace only). 



5. Lejeuxea bethanica Gottsche. 

 Cheilolejeunea bethanica Steph. 



St. Jax: near Bethania, /. C. Breutel. 



6. Lejeunea glaucescens Gottsche. 



St. Thomas: on tree roots, Bonne Resolution, 441. 



7. Lejeuxea mixutiloba Evans. 



St. Thomas: St. Peter, 123 1, 1234, 1233; on stones, Crown, 1363 

 (type). 



8. Lejeuxea pililoba Spruce. 



St. Croix: on bark of a tree, without definite locality. St. Jan: 

 at base of a tree, Rosenberg, 300 m. alt., 306; on a shaded rock, 

 Bordeaux, 350 m. alt., 371. St. Thomas: on ridge north of Charlotte 

 Amalia, 406; Crown, 1363 (a trace only); on rotten wood, St. Peter, 



145 1- 



9. Microlejeunea laetevirens (Nees & Mont.) Evans. 



St. Thomas: on Anthurium roots, Pearl to Bonne Resolution, 

 1340; on fern roots, St. Peter, 1233; on mountain behind Charlotte 

 Amalia, C. H. Ostenfeld 77. Tortola: on a rock, Roadtown to 

 High Bush, 325 m. alt., 786 (in part). 



10. Rectolejeunea phyllobola (Nees & Mont.) Evans. 



St. Jax: near Bethania, J. C. Breutel (specimen in the Lindenberg 



15 Determined by Marshall A. Howe. 



