VoL, 31 : No. 6 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
JUNE, 1904 
A revision of some species of Ectropothecium 
a ERNEST S. SALMON 
q (WITH PLATES 13 AND 14) 
Whilst studying lately some West Indian examples of the genus 
Ectropothecium Mitt., received from the New York Botanical Gar- 
den, U.S, A,, it became necessary to examine the type-specimens 
_ Of the following plants — £. vesiculare (Schwaegr.) Mitt., &. rute- 
4 fans (Brid.) Mitt., E. malachiticum (C. Mill.) Paris, A. Poeppigia- 
num (Hampe) Jaeger, E. conostegum (C. Mill.) Mitt., E. favoviride 
_ Mitt., Z. crassicaule Mitt., Hookeria praclonga W. Arnott and the 
a Plant sent out under the name flypnum Montagnet Schimp. in 
Wright's Cuban Mosses, number 720. The result of the study 
7 and comparison of type specimens and authentic examples of the 
__ above plants has enabled me to make the following revision. 
Bridels’ Leskia rutilans (1827) from St. Domingo proves to be 
identical with Schwaegrichen’s Hypnum vesiculare (1827) from 
Jamaica ; and Miiller’s Vesicularia malachitica (1898) from Porto 
Rico is also the same species. A specimen in Mitten’s herbarium 
. labeled “ Brazil” is also to be referred to £. vestculare. 
< Hampe’s Flookeria Poeppigiana (1844), from Peru, which has 
_ been sunk in E. vesiculare, proves to be a well marked variety of 
that species, and to be identical with Miller's Hypnum conostegum 
_ (1851) from Cuba and St. Domingo. Mitten’s £. favoviride (1869) 
_ trom Cuba is a form of this same variety Poeppigianum. 
£. crassicaule Mitt. (1869) from Cuba appears distinct from all 
the above mentioned plants. 
[The preceding number of the BuLLETIN, Vol. 31, No. 5, for May, 1904 (31: 
*39-308) was issued 18 My 1904.] 
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