662 Britton: West Indian mosses 



Habitat and type locality: "On the ground in shady mossy 

 slopes in high mountains, Jamaica." 



Distribution: Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana; 

 Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico; Dominica, Guadeloupe, and 

 Martinique, to South America; also, Mexico, Guatemala, and 

 Panama. 



Illustrations: Sull. Icon. Muse. pi. 27; De la Pyl. 1. c. pi. 38. 



f. 10. 



Exsiccatae: Drummond, Musci Am. ed. 2. 38; Sull. & Lesq. 

 Musci Bor. Am. ed. 2. 87: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 10; Small, 

 Mosses So. U. S. 9; Husnot, PL Ant. Fr. 133. 



17. Fissidens asplenioides (Sw.) Hedw. Descr. 3: 65. 1792 



Hypnum asplenioides Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 



Dicranum asplenioides Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1770. 1806. 



Skitophyllum asplenioides De la Pyl. Jour, de Bot. II. 4: 156. 



1814. 

 Fissidens Barbae-montis C. Mull.; Ren. & Card. Bull. Soc. Roy. 



Bot. Belg. 31 1 : 152. 1892. 

 Fissidens costaricensis Besch. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 390. 1894. 



Habitat and type locality: "On mossy rocks in high moun- 

 tains of Jamaica." 



Distribution: Jamaica and St. Kitts; also Mexico and Costa 

 Rica. 



Illustrations: Hedw. Descr. pi. 28 (from type); De la Pyl. 

 Jour, de Bot. II. 4: pi. 38. f. 8, 9. 



Exsiccatae: Pringle, Musci Mex. 10,503. 



18. Phyllogonium fulgens (Sw.) Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 671. 



1827 



Hypnum fulgens Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 

 Pterigynandrum fulgens Hedw. Descr. 4: 101. 1797. 

 Pterogonium fid gens Sw. FL Ind. Occ. 3: 1776. 1806. 

 ? Phyllogonium viride Brid. Bryol. Llniv. 2: 673. 1827. 

 Phyllogonium aureum Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. 12: 424. 1869. 

 Phyllogonium globitheca C. Mull. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 563. 1897. 

 Habitat and type locality: "Dependent from branches of 

 trees in high mountains of Jamaica." 



