320 SALMON: SOME SPECIES OF ECTROPOTHECIUM 
Chile ; Huallagua super in arboribus ad Missionem Tocache Jul. 
1830 Poeppig.”” On the label has been written in Miiller’s hand- 
writing ‘‘= Hookeria Poeppigiana Hampe,” and “ = Leskea rutilans 
Brid. nach Originalexempl.” 
Further, there isa moss in Hampe’s herbarium labelled “Musc. 
Andini Amazonici 1155 zu 1144. Ayprum glaucosum C. Mill. 
n. sp. Lctropothecium subdenticulatum Mitt. non C. Mull. Andes 
Peruvianae.”’ An examination of the specimen, which consists of 
a few stems only, shows that there is a mixture of two species 
here, one being Hampe’s Hookcria Poeppigiana — the plant agree- 
ing in every way with Hampe’s type ; while the other is EZ. awphi- 
bolum Spruce. 
In 1851 Miller published as a new species, in the section 
Omala, subsection Vesicularia, of Hypnum, a plant from Cuba, 
(collected by Doring) under the name of AH. conostegum, placing 
it, with the single species H. suédenticulatum in the section ‘‘ Folia 
denticulata, longe acuminata,” whilst 7. Poeppigianum was placed 
in the section “Folia integerrima, breviter acuminata.’ The 
following description was given: “‘monoicum; H. subdenticulato: 
simillimum, sed zrregulariter pinnatum, ramis siccitate distincte cur- 
vatis flexuosis tenerioribus subcontortis lutescentibus hic illic fusciduls, 
humore patentibus ; folia obsolete denticulata saepe integerrima ; 
pedunculus, theca et peristomium H. Péppigiani; operculum 
turgide conicum acutum.’’ J have seen the type-specimen, labelled 
“ Hypnum conostegum n. sp. Cuba: Doring in Hb. Kunzeano 
25.9.1843,” in Miiller’s herbarium. It is clearly the same plant 
as Hampe’s Hookeria Poeppigiana, agreeing perfectly in habit, 
color, areolation and other leaf-characters. 
These Cuban examples agree with certain specimens of the 
var. Poeppigianum in Bescherelle’s herbarium, labelled ‘‘ Peruv. 
Andes ; Cocheras, Poeppig,” in showing a variation in the shape 
of some of the branch-leaves which point out clearly the passage 
to £. vesiculare type. In Hampe’s plant, as well as in Miller's 
type-specimens of H. conostegum, the dorsal and lateral leaves of 
some branches are more or less long-acuminate, while in other 
branches of the same stem these leaves (in the upper part of the 
branch) are broadly ovate and short- and abrupt-acuminate,— 
or even apiculate-acuminate, with slightly laxer areolation. 
pare, 
Sa = Se, 
