[From the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Ch;ii,32 : 261-268. 1905.] 



Bryological Notes— II 



Elizabeth Gertrude Britton 



Some changes in generic names 



Some recent studies of Dr. Small's subtropical Florida collec- 

 tions and of the mosses gathered by me in the Bahamas on two 

 recent expeditions, as well as those from Jamaica collected by Mr. 

 Harris, Mr. Maxon, and Professor Underwood, make it desirable 

 to record some of the discoveries which I have made in trying to 

 place some of the most puzzling species. 



The following species was announced as a new species of 

 Cryphaea at the Philadelphia meeting of the Sullivant Moss Chap- 

 ter in December, and drawings were shown of it. I have since 

 found that it is a common West Indian species which does not 

 belong to any of the genera to which it has been referred, so I 

 propose a new generic name, Pseudocryphaea, to include the one 

 and only species known to me: 



Pseudocryphaea flagellifera (Brid.) 

 f Hypnum nudicaulc Schwaegr. Suppl. I 2 : 223. 1816. 

 ? Pterigynandrum nudicaule Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 182. 1827. 

 Pilotrichum flagelliferum Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2 : 259. 1827. 

 Neckera domingensis C. Mull. Syn. Muse. 2 : 95. 1850. 

 Cryphaea? leptoclada Sull. Proc. Am. Acad. 5: 283. 1861. — 



Paris, Index 289. 

 Lencodon domingense Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 409. 1869. — 



Paris, Index 755. 



From the number of different genera in which it has been 

 placed it is evident at first sight that there is something wrong 

 with this species. It is not a Leucodon, as the leaves are costate ; 

 it is not a Pilotricliclla, though it resembles P. cymbifolia in the 

 slightly papillose leaves, formed by the projecting ends of the 

 cells ; the cells of the leaves resemble more closely those of Lep- 

 todon trichomitrion, but the plants differ in their striking method of 

 branching and forming slender flagella ; the specific names given 



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