Bd.2 . DANSK BOTANISK ARKIV • Nr. 9 



UDGIVET AF DANSK BOTANISK FORENING 



= 1918 = 



Mosses and Lichens 



collected in the former Danish West Indies 



By 



F. Borgesen and C. Raunkiær. 



In the years 1905-6 we visited the Danish West- Indies, and 

 from that tour dates the greater part of the material which this 

 list contains. As to the rest of the material most of it is due to 

 F. Børgesen's travellings, respectively in 1892-93 and 1895-96. 

 Finally the list contains some specimens collected by Eggers, 0. 

 Paulsen and C. H. Ostenfeld. The whole of the material is in 

 the Botanical Museum University of Copenhagen. 



Our warmest thanks are due to the Professors V. F. Brothe- 

 rus and E. Wainio (Helsingfors), who were kind enough to de- 

 termine the whole of the material, respectively the mosses and 

 the lichens. 



The lichens have been included in Wainio's "Additamenta 

 ad Lichenographiam Antillarum illustrandam" (Annales Academiae 

 Scientiarum Fennicae. Ser. A. Tom. VI. Helsingforsiae 1915). The, 

 names of those species collected by us and mentioned in Wainio's 

 paper as new are, in the present list, printed in large type. The 

 mosses, on the other hand, have never been published before. 

 Therefore, by the permission of Professor Brotherus, the new 

 species, there are only two of them, are here accompanied by his 

 descriptions. 



The greater part of our collections were chiefly got in St. Jan, 

 the central part of St. Thomas, and the western part of St. Croix. 

 Some of the localities were visited by us together; but, as the 

 chief aim of our investigations in the West-Indies was of a dif- 

 ferent nature, we had, each of us by himself, opportunities of 

 making collections in places where the other did not go. And, 

 even if we went to the same places it often was at a different 

 time of the year. Still, of course, one must not expect on account 



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