654 BrITTON: WEsT INDIAN MOSSES 
1. OCTOBLEPHARUM ALBIDUM (L.) Hedw. Descr. 3: 15. 1791 
Bryum albidum L. Sp. Pl. 1118. 1753. 
Type LocaALity: New Providence, Bahamas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Florida and the Bahamas, ercedtiowt: the West 
Indies; in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Domingo, Porto Rico, 
Dominica, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, 
Martinique, St. Lucia, Grenada to Trinidad; also in South America 
and tropical regions of Africa and Asia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Dill. Hist. Musc. pl. 46. f. 21; Hedw. Descr. 
3: pl. 6A; Card. Rech. Anat. Leuc. pl. 12. f. 61. 
ExsiccaTaE: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 55. 1861; Husnot, PI. 
Ant. Fr. 127. 1868; Austin, Musci App. Suppl. 478. 1874: Ren. & 
Card. Musci Am. Sept. Exsicc. 213; Holz. Musci Acroc. Bor. Am. 
57; Small, Mosses S. U.S. 52. 
2. RHIZOGONIUM SPINIFORME (L.) Bruch, Flora 29: 134. 1846 
Hypnum spinaeforme L. Sp. Pl. 1122. 1753. 
Mmium spiniforme C. Mill. Syn 1: 175. 1849. 
Type Loca.Lity: Mt. Diabolo, Jamaica, Hans Sloane. 
DIstTRIBUTION: In wet woods, in tropical regions of all portions 
of the world. Southern United States: Georgia, Alabama, 
Louisiana, Florida; Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe 
to S. America; Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. 
. ILLUSTRATIONS: Sloane, Hist. Jam. pl. 25. f. 4.1707; Dill. Hist. 
Musc. 332. pl. 43. f. 8. 1741. 
ExsICCATAE: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 58. 1861; Husnot, PI. 
Ant. Fr. 752. 1868; Austin, Musci App. Suppl. 576. 1874; Ren. & 
Card. Musci Am. Sept. Exs. 64; Holz. Musc. Acroc. Bor. Am. 
174; Pringle, Musci Mex. 10482. 
Another of the Linnaean species, Hypnum cuspidatum L., has 
been found in the high mountains of Jamaica. Pogonatum ur- 
nigerum L.. Sp. Pl. 1109. 1753, was also credited to Jamaica, fol- 
lowing Dillenius, who quotes Hans Sloane’s History of Jamaica 
and mistook his f. 5, pl. 25, for this European species. F. 4 of 
the same plate is unmistakable for Rhizogonium spiniforme. 
B. West INDIAN MOSSES KNOWN TO OLOF SWARTZ 
In his Prodromus, Swartz* retained 5 of the generic names 
* Olof Swartz, Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus, etc. 138-14?- 
1788. 
