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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 85 



EPIPTERYGIUM MEXICANUM (Besch.) Broth, var. ANGUSTIRETE Ther., 



var. nov. 



Valle de Mexico: Contreras (Bro. Aniable 1659). 

 Folia angustiora, cellulis chlorophyllosis, angustioribus. 



MNIOBRYUM INTEGRUM (Card.) Broth, in E. & P. Nat. Pflanzenfani. 



ed. 2, 10: 363. 1924 



Webera Integra Card. Rev. Bryol. 40: 11. 1913. 



Valle de Mexico: Contreras {Bro. Amable 1478). 



WEBERA SPECTABILIS (C. M.) Jaeg. 



Webera cylindrka (Mont.) Schimp. in Besch. Prodr. Bryol. Mex. 52. 187 1. 



I have received from Bro. Amable rather numerous collections 

 of Webera of the present relationship, but frankly, I have not suc- 

 ceeded in distinguisliing IV. cylindrica from W. specfabilis. The 

 characters I had considered distinctive are rarely combined on the same 

 plant and all of them show a rather wide variability, as, for instance, 

 in the width of the leaf, the recurvature of the margin, the width 

 of the costa and of the cells, and the length of the capsule. My con- 

 ■clusion is that we must unite the two species. Webera specfabilis has 

 priority. 



WEBERA PSEUDO-BARBULA Ther., sp. nov. 



Valle de Mexico {Bro. Amable) : Desierto (1630, 1643) ! Con- 

 treras (1658) ; Lerma (1684). — In all these localities the plants grow 

 in company with Anomobryum filiforme var. mexicanimi, a remarlcable 

 fact of association. 



Fic;. 17. — Webera pseudo-Barbiila Ther. i, stem leaf; 2, marginal and median 

 cells; 3, apical cells; 4, leaves of innovations; 5, apical cells of 4; 6, marginal 

 and median cells of 4; 7, propagiila; 8, perichaetial leaf; 9, dry capsule; 10, 

 moist capsule; 11, peristome (fragment) ; 12, fragment of annulus. 



