li HORTUS JyVMAlCENSISi mosses 



5. CALYCINXJM. CALVXED. 



Capsules nearly erect; involucre bristly, longjah^ longitudinal, peJuncled;. 

 branchiets erect ; leaves llnear--cirrhose. 



III. FOxNTINALIS. FOUNTAIN. 



Gen. char.. Capsule oblong, with the mouth ciliate ; opening with an acuminate 

 lid ; covered with a sessile, smooth, conical, veil, iiud included in a pitcber-shaped^ 

 perichietiuni. Swartz enumerates four species as natives of Jamaica^ 



I. CRISPA. ClJRLEDi 



Ramose piimate; leaves duphcate-bifarious, roundish, patent, imbricate, un- 

 dulate ; capsules lateral on the back part. 



2. DISTICHA, DISTICH. 



Branchiets simple ; leaves bifarious, patent, retuse, iiubricate plane ; capsules- 

 lateral, on the bacii part. 



3. FILICINA. FERN. 



Erect pinnate ; pinnas approximating ; leaves five-pointed, ovate, acute ; cap^- 

 sules axillary'. 



4. HYPNOIDEA. HYPNtJM-UKE. 



Creeping, erect, sub-divided, scattered ; leaves lanceolate, two-keeled, ap 

 pressed j capsules axillary. 



IV. MNlUlVf; 



Gen. char. Capsule with a lid ; calvptre smooth ; bristle from a terminatmg ta- 

 bercle Male flowers headed or discoid, fewartz discovered three species io. 

 Jamaica. 



1'. TOMENTOSIIM. DOWNY. 



Dichotomous, erect> downy ; leaves subulate ; capsules spherical. 



2. SPH^RICARPON. ROUND-CAPSULED* 



Erect, downy, filiform ; branchiets simple, bundled, termiaating ;. feares ca-- 

 pillary ; capsules round. 



3. STRICTUM. STIFF. 



Caulescent ; leaves capillary ; peduncles elongate, terminal ; capsules obliquef. 



V. HYPNUM. 



Gen. char. Capsule ovate-oblong ; fringe double ; outer of sixteen broadish teeth; 

 inner a variousJy divided membrane ; veil smooth ; fruit lateral. Tliis is a numer 

 ous genus, fewartz found no less than twenty-seven species in Jamaica. 



1. SPINIFORME. spine-formed. 



iGt, sinxple ; leaves linear-siJ)ulato, serrulate, ending in a bristle ; capsule 

 ovate, lid obUcjue. 



2. PAJUMATaiCs 



