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used by Linnaeus* and enumerated 41 species, which as at present 
recognized belong to 37 different genera, three of these having 
their type localities in Hispaniola (Haiti and Santo Domingo), all 
the rest in Jamaica. 
In studying the collections made by Mr. Wm. Harris in Jamaica 
and ourown later collections, a special effort has been made to obtain 
an accurate knowledge of these Swartz types and Dr. A. Le Roy 
Andrews, of Cornell University, very kindly consented, when 
he visited Stockholm in the summer of 1912, to examine these types 
for me and compare them with specimens from our own collections 
in Jamaica, sent as duplicates to the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum. 
Dr. Andrews was able to see and compare the original specimens 
with ours in all but two cases: Bryum parasiticum Sw. |= Syr- 
rhopodon parasiticus (Sw.) Besch.] and Hypnum congestum Sw. 
[= Pleuropus congestus (Sw.) Broth.], which species we have not 
yet been able to recognize, the former being from Hispaniola and 
the type lacking in Swartz’ herbarium, the latter from Jamaica 
and Haiti. We suspect from the illustration given by Hedwig that 
the latter is probably referable to Palamocladium Bonplandt (Hook.) 
Broth., which Brotherus later refers to Pleuropus, though he states 
that he has not seen specimens of Pleuropus congestus. 
In 1806 Swartz discarded his Linnaean limitationst and adopted 
some of the generic changes proposed by Hedwig (1792), to whom 
he sent specimens of most of his West Indian mosses, from which 
almost all of Hedwig’s plates were drawn. This eliminated 
Fentinalis and Mnium from the West Indies and added seven 
generat and three species to the list given in the Prodromus; he 
further amplified his list by giving more in detail the stations and 
habitats. These are translated and quoted in the following list 
of species in the sequence enumerated by Swartz, with their modern 
Names, synonyms, and distribution as at present known to us 
from the West Indies: 
* Fontinalis, Polytrichum, Mnium, Bryum, and Hypnum. 
+ Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1759-1841. 1806. 
t Encalypta, Trichostomum, Tortula, Dicranum, Pterogonium, Neckera, and 
kea, ligt 
