654 Britton: West Indian mosses 



I. Octoblepharum albidum (L.) Hedw. Descr. 3: 15. 1791 



Bryum albidum L. Sp. PI. 11 18. 1753. 



Type locality: New Providence, Bahamas. 



Distribution: Florida and the Bahamas, throughout the West 

 Indies: in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Domingo, Porto Rico, 

 Dominica, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, 

 Martinique, St. Lucia, Grenada to Trinidad; also in South America 

 and tropical regions of Africa and Asia. 



Illustrations: Dill. Hist. Muse. pi. 46. f. 21; Hedw. Descr. 

 3: pi. 6A; Card. Rech. Anat. Leuc. pi. 12. f. 61. 



Exsiccatae: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 55. 1861; Husnot, PI. 

 Ant. Fr. 121. 1868; Austin, Musci App. Suppl. 478. 1874: Ren. & 

 Card. Musci Am. Sept. Exsicc. 213; Holz. Musci Acroc. Bor. Am. 

 57; Small, Mosses S. U. S. 52. 



2. Rhizogonium spiniforme (L.) Bruch, Flora 29: 134. 1846 



Hypnum spinaeforme L. Sp. PI. 1122. 1753. 

 Mnium spiniforme C. Mull. Syn 1: 175. 1849. 



Type locality: Mt. Diabolo, Jamaica, Hans Sloane. 



Distribution: In wet woods, in tropical regions of all portions 

 of the world. Southern United States: Georgia, Alabama, 

 Louisiana, Florida; Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe 

 to S. America; Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. 



Illustrations: Sloane, Hist. Jam. pi. 25^.4. 1707; Dill. Hist. 

 Muse. 332. pi. 43. f. 8. 1 74 1. 



Exsiccatae: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 5S. 1861; Husnot, PI. 

 Ant. Fr. 152. 1868; Austin, Musci App. Suppl. 516. 1874; Ren. & 

 Card. Musci Am. Sept. Exs. 64; Holz. Muse. Acroc. Bor. Am. 

 174; Pringle, Musci Mex. 10482. 



Another of the Linnaean species ; Hypnum cuspidatum L., has 

 been found in the high mountains of Jamaica. Pogonatum ur- 

 nigerum L. Sp. PI. 1109. 1753, was also credited to Jamaica, fol- 

 lowing Dillenius, who quotes Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica 

 and mistook his /. 5, pi. 25, for this European species. F. 4 of 

 the same plate is unmistakable for Rhizogonium spiniforme. 



B. West Indian mosses known to Olof Swartz 

 In his Prodromus, Swartz* retained 5 of the generic names 



* Olof Swartz, Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus, etc. 138-142. 

 1788. 



