664 BRITTON: WEST INDIAN MOSSES 
21. HoMALIA GLABELLA’ (Sw.) Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 458. 
1869 
Hypnum glabellum Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 
Leskea glabella Hedw. Sp. Musc. 235. 1801. 
Neckera glabella Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1782. 1806. 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘On trunks of trees in mountains 
of Jamaica.” 
DisTRIBUTION: Jamaica, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Mexico, 
Costa Rica, to Venezuela. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Sp. Musc. I. 59 (from type specimens). 
22. METEORIOPSIS PATULA (Sw.) Broth. in E. & P. Pfl. 1°: 825. 
1906 
Hypnum patulum Sw. Prod. 140. 1788. 
Hypnum patulum Hedw. Sp. Musc. 279. 1801. 
Hypnum? patulum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3: 1832. 1806. 
Leskea remotifolia C. Miill. Linnaea 19: 216. 1847. 
Meteorium stellatum Lorentz, Moosst. 165. . 1864. 
Meteorium flaccidum Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc, 12: 443. 1869. 
Meteorium tenue Sch. Besch. Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 
227%. 4872. 
Meteorium diversifolium Besch. 1. c. 
Meteorium torticuspis C. Miill. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 204. 1897: 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘On roots and branches of trees 
near the summits, mountains of Jamaica.” 
DistTRIBUTION: Florida, in hammocks near Cutler, J. K. Smell; 
Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, 
Montserrat, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Trinidad to South America; 
also Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, an Panama. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Sp. Musc. fl. 73. 
ExsIccaTAE: Sull. Musci Cub. Wright. 80; Husiot Pl. Ant. 
Fr. 168; Pringle, Musci Mex. 15,136. 
This is a common and variable species in the tropics and 
accordingly has received a variety of names. There seems to be 
no reason for maintaining two sections and such a host of names — 
in this genus, for according to Mitten and R. S. Williams the 
following also are syrionyms of this species: M. aureo-nitens Hampe 
(not Hook.), M. barbipendulum C. Miill.; M. cirrifolium Schw-, 
