﻿2 Britton: Mosses of Danish West Indies 



Miill.) Jaeg., Stereophyllum leucostegum (Brid.) Mitt, (distributed 

 as Hypnum Breutelii Schimp.), and Taxithelium planum (Brid.) 

 Mitt, (distributed as Hypnum Antillarum Schimp. ms.). 



Baron von Eggers collected a few mosses in St. Thomas, St. 

 Jan, and Tortola in 1887, but as far as we know no list of these 

 has been published. 



We collected about seventy packets, but found only twenty- 

 eight species, representing twenty-two genera, though we added 

 three new species, a small Phascum, a sterile Hyophila, and a 

 sterile Bryum, which has since been found on Mona Island also. 



A brief synonymy with localities and habitat of these species 

 is given in the following enumeration: Nos. 1-4 and 7-9 were 

 determined by Mr. R. S. Williams; Nos. 16 and 17 by M. G. 

 Dismier. Unless otherwise noted the specimens cited were col- 

 lected by Miss Marble and myself. 



I. Dicranella longirostris (Schwaegr.) Mitt. Jour, Linn. Soc. 

 Bot. 12: 30. 1869 

 St. Jan: without definite locality, Breutel, 1841. 



2. Leucoloma serrulaTum Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 752. 1827 

 Leucoloma Riedlei Besch. Jour, de Bot. 5: 146. 1891. 



St. Thomas: on trees in wet woods, Riedle. 



3. Octoblepharum albidum (L.) Hedw. Descr. 3: 15. 1791 

 St. Thomas: on roots of an Anthurium, stone walls, between 



Pearl and Bonne Resolution near Caret Bay, 1337. 



4. Leucobryum Polakowskyi (C. Miill.) Cardot, Mem. Soc. 

 Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 32: 82. 1900 

 Tortola: on rotten wood, Sage Mt., W. C. Fishlock 83, 

 May, 1913. Also in Porto Rico, E. G. Britton 2518, April, 1913.* 



5. FissiDENS Kegelianus C. Mull. Linnaea 21: 181. 1848 

 St. Thomas and St. Jan: at base of palms and on the ground, 

 Breutel, 1841 (distributed as F. palmatus [Sw.] Hedw.). St. 

 Jan: wet bank, Bethania, Britton & Shafer 208a. St. Thomas: 



