318 SALMON: SOME SPECIES OF ECTROPOTHECIUM 
Hi. conostegum C. Mill., 4. c. 242 (sect. Omalia, subsect. Vesicu- 
aria) (synon. et habitat. portoric. excl.) 1851. 
Ectropothecium flavoviride Mitt. Musc. Austr.-Amer. 518. 1869 ; 
Jaeger, Adumbr. 2: 534. 1879; Paris, Index Bryolog. 81. 
1895. 
E. conostegum (C. Mill.) Mitt. Musc. Austr.-Amer. 519. 1869 ; 
Jaeger, Adumbr. 2: 537 (Brideli syn. et habitat portoric. excl.) 
1879; Paris, Index Bryolog. 79 (Brideli syn. et habitat. por- 
toric. excl.) 1895. 
E. Poeppigianum (Hampe) Jaeger, Adumbr. 2: 534. (Mitteni syn. 
et Lindigi planta excl.). 1879. 
Vesicularia conostega C. Mull. Hedwigia, 3'7: 252. 1808. 
Monoicum, fusco- vel flavo-viride, laxe et depresse caespitosum, 
caespitibus intricatis mollibus, caule repente praelongo flexuoso 
inferne radiculoso irregulariter pinnato vel raro hic illic subbi- 
pinnato, ramis inaequalibus ad 7 mm. longis simplicibus vel raro 
parce et vage ramosis patulis vel patentibus distichis haud com- 
planatis cum foliis circ. 1.5 mm. latis, foliis caulinis erecto-patenti- 
bus imbricatis saepe apice parum uncinatis vix compressis siccitate 
inflectentibus dorsalibus et lateralibus oblongo- vel ovato-acumi- 
natis circ. 1.5 mm. longis acumine longo tenui flexuoso saepe 
recurvo lateralibus basi inaequalibus cellulis firmiusculis superiori- 
bus hexagonis et subhexagonis 50 — 70 x 12 — 15 y inferne 
longioribus rectangulo- ‘subhexagonis utriculo primordiali contracto 
repletis margine nisi in acumine minutissime subdenticulato in- 
tegerrimo interdum ad folii medium recurvo nervis binis brevibus 
plerumque inaequilongis, foliis caulinis ventralibus minoribus circ. 
1 mm. longis e basi late ovali vel subquadrata abruptius tenuiter 
acuminatis tenerius areolatis cellulis hexagonis et elliptico-subhex- 
agonis 40 — 70x 13 — 05 B, foliis rameis haud complanatis 
multiseriatis vix compressis erecto- -patentibus imbricatis saepe plus 
minus uncinatis dorsalibus et lateralibus circ. 1 mm. longis ovatis 
nunc e basi concava she vel ovata lanceolatis nunc oblongis 
vel ovatis plus minus longe acuminatis (in rami parte inferiore 
saepe subulato-acuminatis acumine curvato) margine subintegro 
tenerius areolatis cellulis hexagonis et subhexagonis circ. 
