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from the apex, by the larger, wider, and more convolute inner peri- 

 chaetial leaves, by the more inflated oblong capsule, with a higher 

 operculum, and lastly by the longer and more densely papillose teeth 

 of the peristome and the spores twice larger. 



THUIDIACEAE 

 HERPETINEURON TOCCOAE (Sull.) Card. Bot. Centrabl. 19': 127. 1905 

 Anomodon Toccoac Sull. Muse. Bor. Amer. 58. 1856. 

 Morelia: (7907); Campanario (7454, 7465); Carindapaz (7951 

 in part). 



HAPLOCLADIUM MICROPHYLLUM (Sw.) Broth. 



Hypmnii iiiicrophyllnin Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 142. 1788. 



Puebla: Esperanza (4675). Morelia: Jesus del Monte (7608, 

 7613. 7625). Walle de ^Mexico : Desierto (Bro. Aniahlc 1241 in part, 

 1245 in part). 



RAUIA SUBCATENULATA (Schimp.) Broth. 

 Pscudolcskca sitlnatonilata Schimp. in Besch. Prodr. Bryol, Mex. 90. 1871. 



Morelia : Rincon (4566) ; Pare San Pedro (4580, 4586) ; Loma 

 Santa Maria (4875, 4876, 4889, 4897, 4905, 4909, 4915. 4916, 5090, 

 7853) ; Campanario (7456) ; Jesus del Monte (7689). 



THUIDIUM TUERCKHEIMII C. M. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 219. 1897, forma 



Morelia: Loma Santa Maria (4893). 



In habit and areolation this form approaches var. angustatiim 

 Card. ; but, disregarding the fact that one cannot compare the fruit 

 (the plant being sterile), it differs in the dark green color of the tufts 

 and in its longer rameal leaves. The apical cells of the secondary 

 branch leaves are rather frequently acute. 



THUIDIUM MEXICANUM Mitt. Muse. Austr. Amer. 577. 1869 



Morelia: Cerro Azul (4552. 4553, 4984). Valle de Mexico; San 

 Rafael {Bro. Aiiiablc 1277, 1279, 1281, 1282). 



This is the form named T. orthocarpuni by Bescherelle, and reunited 

 by Cardot with Mitten's species. 



