298 MOSSES (Gepp). [Eri/throdontmvi 



34. ERYTHRODONTIUM Hampe in Kjobnh. Vidensk. 

 Meddel. (1870), p. 279. 



1. E. subjulaceum Paris Index Bryolog. p. 437 (1895). 

 Fterigynandrum subjulaceum C. Muell. in Linnsea xxxix. p. 453 



(18-75). 



Var. impolitum Gepp. var. nov. 



Ramviline leaves not sinning, in the dry state less closely 

 appressed than in the type, plicate vinder pressure, more widely 

 acuminulate. 



PuMio AnduNGO. — A yellowish green, creeping, widely cucspitose 

 moss, found on rotting old trunks in Barrancos de Catete, and more 

 rarely on the bare ground in the same place ; with operculate fr. and 

 very fugacious calyptras, May 1857. No. 84. 



GoiAXGo Alto. — On trunks and branches of Edwardin liiridu in the 

 forests of Quilombo-Quiacatubia, at an elevation of 2400 ft. ; with old 

 fr. end of Feb. 1855. No. 164. Growing with Macvumitrhua lyco- 

 Ijodiokles on old trunks, especially on Edwurdm, in the rocky woody 

 parts of Sobatode Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; July 1856. No. 144. Wel- 

 witsch says he also gathered the plant at Alto Queta. 



2. E. bicolor Gepp sp. n. 



Plant closely and widely interwoven. Stem creeping, rooting, 

 pinnately branched, with leaves homomallous. Branches numerous, 

 ascending, curved, brunnescent below, flavesceut above, terete- 

 julaceous, scarcely polished, obtuse, 3 to 5 mm. long, 0'4 mm. wide 

 when dry, 1 '0 wide when wet. Ramuline leaves appressed when 

 dry, erecto-patent when wet, 0-85 mm. long by 0-375 mm. wide, 

 from a broad cordate base elliptic-ovate aciiminate, slightly 

 hollowed, shortly binervate, with margins erect or slightly re- 

 curved, minutely serrulate above middle ; alar cells quadrate 

 numerous, ascending to J length of margin, 0"0I to 0*015 mm. 

 diam., with primordial utricle contracted, dense ; upper cells 

 vermiform-elongate (0*05 by 0"006 mm.), smooth, with walls 

 lutescent. 



HuiJXA. — A densely and widely Ciespitose moss, covering the older 

 tree-trunks on the northern and western sides : on nearly lifeless bark 

 in the elevated woods of Monino near Lopollo ; without fr. Apr. 1860. 

 No. 8. 



This stei'ile specimen appears to belong to the present genus. In 

 habit and in leaf- structure it is related to E. subjnlaceuiii Paris, but 

 differs in the shape of the leaves which are oblong-ovate, half as wide, 

 much less excavate. The leaves approach in shape more nearly to 

 those of E. ScJnveiufurthi Paris (Index Bryolog. p. 437), but are much 

 less excavate and have much less visibly reflexed margins. 



35. TRACHYPHYLLUM Gepp gen. nov. 



A genus of the family Entodontece, nearest to Erythrodontiuvi 

 and differing in the papillate dorsal surface of the leaves and in 

 the inclined, lopsided theca. It is distinguished from Pterigyn- 

 andrum by the very numerous alar cells of its leaves. 



Stem prostrate, more or less pinnate ; branches ascending, 

 julaceous ; leaves appressed (apex patent) when dry, very patent 



