BRITTON: WEST INDIAN MOSSES 657 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: “‘ Near Coldspring, high moun- 
tains of southern Jamaica, on trunks of trees.” 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica and Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Descr. pl. 18 (from Swartz’ type). 
ExsIccaTAE: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 76. 
This species has immersed capsules and seems to belong where 
Mitten has placed it. 
4. PILOTRICHUM HYPNOIDES (Sw.) P. Beauv. Prod. 83. 1805 
Fontinalis hypnoides Sw. Prod. 138. 1788. 
Neckera hypnoidea Hedw. Descr. 3: 43. 1792. 
Neckera hypnoides Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. 3: 1790. 1806. 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Jamaica, on trunks of trees in 
high mountains.”’ 
_ DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica to Trinidad. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Descr. pl. 17 (from Swartz’ type). 
5. CRYPHAEA FILIFORMIS (Sw.) Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 251. 1827 
Fontinalis fiiformis Sw. Prod. 138. 1788. 
Neckera filiformis Hedw. Descr. 3: 41. 1792. 
Neckera filiformis Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1786. 1806. 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Hispaniola, in arid regions .on 
branches of Haematoxylon campechianum.” 
DIsTRIBUTION: Jamaica, Cuba, and Santo Domingo; also in 
South America, Central America and Mexico (Guatemala and 
Yucatan). 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Descr. pl. 16 (from Swartz’ type). 
ExsIccaTaE: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 67. 
6. PoGONATUM TORTILE (Sw.) Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 108. 1827 
Polytrichum convolutum Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. Not L. 1753. 
Polytrichum convolutum Hedw. Sp. Musc. 94. 1801. 
Pogonatum convolutum Beauv. Prod. 85. 1805. 
Polytrichum tortile Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1839. 1806. 
Polytrichum domingense Brid. Mant. 201. 1819. 
Polytrichum cubense Sull. Proc. Am. Acad. 5: 281. 1861. 
Polytrichum glaucinum Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 210. 1876. 
Polytrichum Husnotianum Besch. |. c. 
Polytrichum crispulum Besch. 1. c. 211. 
