662 BRITTON: WEsT INDIAN MOSSES 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘On the ground in shady mossy 
slopes in high mountains, Jamaica.” 
DistRIBUTION: Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana; 
Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico; Dominica, Guadeloupe, and 
Martinique, to South America; also, Mexico, Guatemala, and 
Panama. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sull. Icon. Musc. pl. 27; De la Pyl. 1. c. pl. 38. 
fF: To. 
ExsiccATAE: Drummond, Musci Am. ed. 2. 38; Sull. & Lesq. 
Musci Bor. Am. ed. 2. 87: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. zo; Small, 
Mosses So. U.S. 9; Husnot, Pl. Ant. Fr. 133. 
17. FISSIDENS ASPLENIOIDES (Sw.) Hedw. Descr. 3: 65. 1792 
Hypnum asplenioides Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 
Dicranum asplenioides Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1770. 1806. 
Skitophyllum asplenioides De la Pyl. Jour. de Bot. II. 4: 156. 
1814. 
Fissidens Barbae-montis C. Miill.; Ren. & Card. Bull. Soc. Roy. 
Bot. Belg. 311: 152. 1892. 
Fissidens costaricensis Besch. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 390. 1894. 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: “On mossy rocks in high moun- 
tains of Jamaica.” 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica and St. Kitts; also Mexico and Costa 
Rica. 
ILLustRatIONS: Hedw. Descr. pl. 28 (from type); De la Pyl. 
Jour. de Bot. II. 4: pl. 38. f. 8, 9. 
EXSICCATAE: Pringle, Musci Mex. 10,503. 
18. PHYLLOGONIUM FULGENS (Sw.) Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 671. 
1827 
Hypnum fulgens Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 
Pterigynandrum fulgens Hedw. Descr. 4: 101. 1797. 
Pterogonium fulgens Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1776. 1806. 
? Phyllogonium viride Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 673. 1827. 
Phyllogonium aureum Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. 12: 424. 1869. 
Phyllogonium globitheca C. Mill. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 563. 1897: 
HABITAT AND TYPE LocaLity: ‘Dependent from branches of 
trees in high mountains of Jamaica.” 
