660 Brixton: West Indian mosses 



Habitat and type locality: "Jamaica arid Hispaniola, in 

 sugar fields and on calcareous rocks." 



Distribution: Florida and Texas. Common In the Bahamas 

 on limestone rocks, whence it was known to Dillenius. Jamaica, 

 Cuba, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Montserrat to Trinidad 

 and South America; also in Mexico. 



Illustration: Hedw. Descr. pi. 6B, from original specimens 

 collected by Swartz in Jamaica and Santo Domingo. 



II. Bryum acuminatum Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. 



(See 10) 



12. Syrrhopodon lycopodioides (Sw.) C. Miill. Syn. i: 538. 



1849 



Bryum lycopodioides Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. 



Dicranum? lycopodioides Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1766. 1806. 



Habitat and type locality: "Jamaica; in moist shady 

 woods, on high mountains." 



Distribution: Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Porto Rico, 

 Guadeloupe, and Martinique to Trinidad. 



Exsiccatae: Husnot, PI. Ant. Fr. 151. 



13. Syrrhopodon parasiticus Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VIII. i : 298. 



1895 

 Bryum parasiticum Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. 

 Encalypta parasitica Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1759. 1806. 

 Calymperes parasitica Hook. & Grev. Edinb. Jour. Sci. i: 131. 



1824. 



The type cannot be found at Stockholm in Swartz' herbarium. 

 A fragment of the type specimen exists at Kew, and Mitten had 

 only two leaves of it. He states that it is very close to Calymperes 

 Richardi but the illustration given by Schwaegrichen of the calyp- 

 tra and the description given by Swartz, " Calyptra longa suhulata, 

 non laxa, pallida, ore aequali, latere demum fissili" disprove this, 

 and it is evident, either that Schwaegrichen was mistaken in figuring 

 a calyptra which resembles that of a Macromitrium or it is a species 

 of that genus, which is very common in Jamaica- Mitten referred 

 a specimen collected by R. Spruce in South America (no. 2) to 

 this species but that proves to be a true Calymperes. 



