﻿Vol. 42 



BULLETIN 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



JANUARY, 191 5 



Mosses of the Danish West Indies and 

 Virgin Islands 



3ETH Gertrude Brixton 



In February, 1913, Miss Delia W. Marble and I spent four 

 weeks collecting on the island of St. Thomas, while Dr. Britton 

 and Dr. Shafer cruised around among the other islands of the 

 Archipelago in search of cacti and other plants. An account of 

 their trip will be found in the Journal of the New York Botanical 

 Garden.* 



As far as we know, no record of any other collection of mosses 

 from these islands exists, excepting the brief account given by 

 Dr. I. Urbanf of the collections made by the Rev. Johann 

 Christian Breutel in 1841. Most of Breutel's mosses, 310 numbers, 

 are deposited at the British Museum, but his collections included 

 specimens from St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Jan, St. Kitts, and 

 Antigua, as well as the collections made in South Africa in 1853- 

 1854. This would account for the large number of specimens 

 preserved in his herbarium, as our experience has shown that 

 the Danish and Virgin Islands are not particularly rich in species 

 of bryophytes. 



William Mitten had a few duplicates from Breutel's collec- 

 tions including the following six species: Calymperes Richardi C. 

 Miill. (distributed as C. Afzelii Sw.), Hymenostomum Breutelii 

 (C. Miill.) Broth., Tortula agraria (Sw.) Sw., Philonotis tenella (C. 



* Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden 14: 99- I9i3- 



t Symbolae Antill. 3: 28. 1902. 



[The Bulletin for December (41: 577-657- pl- 21-23) was issued Ja 8, 1915. 



