664 Britton: West Indian mosses 



21. Homalia glabella (Sw.) Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 458. 



1869 

 Hypnum glabellum Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 

 Leskea glabella Hedw. Sp. Muse. 235. 1801. 

 Neckera glabella Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1782. 1806. 



Habitat and type locality: "On trunks of trees in mountains 

 of Jamaica." 



Distribution: Jamaica, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Mexico, 

 Costa Rica, to Venezuela. 



Illustration: Hedw. Sp. Muse. pi. S9 (from type specimens). 



22. Meteoriopsis patula (Sw.) Broth, in E. & P. Pfl. i 3 : 825. 



1906 

 Hypnum patulum Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 

 Hypnum patulum Hedw. Sp. Muse. 279. 1801. 

 Hypnum? patulum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1832. 1806. 

 Leskea remotifolia C. Mull. Linnaea 19: 216. 1847. 

 Meteorium stellatum Lorentz, Moosst. 165. 1864. 

 Meteorium flaccidum Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 443. 1869. 

 Meteorium tenue Sch. Besch. Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 



227. 1872. 

 Meteorium diver sifolium Besch. 1. c. 

 Meteorium torticuspis C. Mull. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 204. 1897. 



Habitat and type locality: "On roots and branches of trees 

 near the summits, mountains of Jamaica." 



Distribution: Florida, in hammocks near Cutler, J. K. Small; 

 Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, 

 Montserrat, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Trinidad to South America; 

 also Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama. 



Illustration: Hedw. Sp. Muse. pi. 73. 



Exsiccatae: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. §0; Husnot, PI. Ant. 

 Fr. 168; Pringle, Musci Mex. 15,136. 



This is a common and variable species in the tropics and 

 accordingly has received a variety of names. There seems to be 

 no reason for maintaining two sections and such a host of names 

 in this genus, for according to Mitten and R. S. Williams the 

 following also are synonyms of this species : M. aureo-nitens Hampe 

 (not Hook.), M. barbipendulum C. Mull.; M. cirrifolium Schw., 



