660 BRITTON: WEST INDIAN MOSSES 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: “Jamaica and Hispaniola, in 
sugar fields and on calcareous rocks.”’ 
DistRIBUTION: Florida and Texas. Common in the Bahamas 
on limestone rocks, whence it was known to Dillenius. Jamaica, 
Cuba, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Montserrat to Trinidad 
and South America; also in Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Descr. pl. 6B, from original specimens 
collected by Swartz in Jamaica and Santo Domingo. 
De _BRyum ACUMINATUM Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. 
(See 10) 
12. SYRRHOPODON LYCOPODIOIDES (Sw.) C. Miill. Syn. 1: 538. 
1849 
Bryum lycopodioides Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. 
Dicranum? lycopodioides Sw. F1. Ind. Occ. 3: 1766. 1806. 
HaBITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Jamaica; in moist shady 
woods, on high mountains.” 
DIsTRIBUTION: Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Porto Rico, 
Guadeloupe, and Martinique to Trinidad. 
ExsiccaTAE: Husnot, Pl. Ant. Fr. 151. 
13. SYRRHOPODON PARASITICUS Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VIII. 1: 298- 
1895 
Bryum parasiticum Sw. Prod. 139. 1788. 
Encalypia parasitica Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1759. 1806. 
Calymperes parasitica Hook. & Grev. Edinb. Jour. Sci. 1: 131: 
1824. 
The type cannot be found at Stockholm in Swartz’ herbarium. 
A fragment of the type specimen exists at Kew, and Mitten had 
only two leaves of it. He states that it is very close to Calymperes 
Richardi but the illustration given by Schwaegrichen of the calyp- 
tra and the description given by Swartz, ‘‘ Calypira longa subulata, 
non laxa, pallida, ore aequali, latere demum fissili”’ disprove this, 
and it is evident, either that Schwaegrichen was mistaken in figuring 
a calyptra which resembles that of a Macromitrium or it is a species 
of that genus, which is very common in Jamaica. Mitten referred 
a specimen collected by R. Spruce in South America (no. 2) “ 
this species but that proves to be a true Calymperes. 
