SALMON: SOME SPECIES OF ECTROPOTHECIUM 319 
40 — 60 x 13 — 15 4 nervis binis brevibus, foliis perichaetialibus 
erectis superioribus apice flexuosis e basi oblongo-ovata truncata 
filiformi-acuminatis laxe reticulatis margine integro vel subintegro, 
capsula in pedunculo gracili subflexuoso purpureo glabro 1.5 cm. 
alto apice incurvo parvula 1.25 x 0.75 mm. badia suburceolata 
pendula, operculo turgide conico acutiusculo, “ peristomii dentibus 
interni ciliis binis.”’ 
Hab. — Amer, austr. — Peruvia; sylvae primaevae, Cuchera, 
c. fr. (leg. Poeppig, 1829), Poeppig, Musci frondosi mo. 72 (Herb. 
Hamp.)! Andes peruvianae (Spruce) ! 
Ind. occid, — Cuba, ad truncos putridos in sylvis (Wright, vo. 
720, sub “ypno Montagne’ Schimp., partim, = 2. flavoviride 
Mitt. in herb. Mitten. et = Aypnum conostegum C. Mill. in herb 
Miller). Cuba, Déring in Hb. Kunzeano. Sept. 25, 1843 (sub. 
Hypno conostego C. Mill. in herb. Miiller). St. Domingo, in monte 
“Tsabel de la torre,” 600 m. alt., June 3, 1887, leg. Eggers (sub 
#1. conostego C. Miill. in herb. Miiller). 
Hampe in 1844 described the present plant, from examples 
collected by Poeppig in Peru, as Hookeria Poeppigiana. Miiller in 
the “‘ Synopsis” placed the moss in the genus Aypnum — section 
Omalia, subsection Vesicularia — between H. rutilans and H. vesi- 
culare, and contrasted it with the latter species. In 1869 Mitten 
(Musci Austro-Amer. 518) without seeing specimens of Hampe’s 
plant, quoted ‘ Hovkeria Poeppigiana’’ as a synonym of Lctropo- 
thectum vesiculare, and since this date authors have, almost without 
€xception, followed Mitten in referring Hampe’s plant from Peru 
to Schwaegrichen’s species, £. vesiculare, from Jamaica. Jaeger 
(Adumbr. 2: 334), who maintains Hampe’s species and who was 
the first to place it in Ectropothecium, gives the reference ‘“‘ Ectro- 
pothecium vesiculare forma Mitt. Musc. Austr. Amer. p. 518,” this, 
however, is incorrect, the word “forma” not occurring in the 
place cited. Jaeger quotes as a locality for the species ‘‘ Nova 
Granada, in silvis ad flumen Magdalenae (A. Lindig).” There are 
examples of this plant in Hampe’s herbarium, labelled in Hampe’s 
handwriting, “ Hypuum Poeppigianum,” from “ Nova Granata, ad 
flum, Magdalenae, December, 1862 in sylvis leg. A. Lindig.” 
This moss, however, is certainly not the same species as is repre- 
sented by Hampe’s type-specimens from Peru, but belongs clearly 
to &, ampluibolum Spruce. The same is the case with another 
moss in Hampe’s herbarium labelled ‘“ Hypuum callidum Mont. 
