BRITTON: West INDIAN MOSSES 673 
The synonymy of Palamocladium is as follows: 
Palamocladium leskecides (Hook.) E. G. Britton, comb. nov. 
Hookeria leskeoides Hook. Musc. Exot. pl. 55. 1818. 
Leskea Bonplandi Hook.; Kunth. Syn. Pl. Aeg. 1: 61. 1822. 
Hypnum Bonplandi C. M. Syn..2: 463. 1851. | 
Homalothecium Bonplandi Jaeg. Adumb. 2: 379. 1875-76. 
Palamocladium Bonplandi Broth. Bot. Jahrb. 24: 281. 1897. 
Isothecium Bonplandi haitense Ren. & Card. MS. in herb. 
Pleuropus leskeoides Hook. MS. in Herb. 
39. ORTHOSTICHOPSIS TETRAGONA (Sw.) Broth. E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 
1°: 805. 1906 
Hypnum tetragonum Sw. Prod. 142. 1788. 
Hypnum? tetragonum Hedw. Sp. Musc. 246. 180!. 
Hypnum? tetragonum Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. 3: 1833. 1806. 
Pterigynandrum aureum Brid. Mant. tot. 1819. 
Pterigynandrum quadrifarium Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 194. 1827. 
Isothecium tetragonum Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 377. 1827. 
Neckera quinquefaria C. Mill. Syn. 2: 124. 1850. 
Neckera tetragona C. Miill. Syn. 2: 125. 1850. 
Meteorium tetragonum Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 431. 1869. 
Pilotrichella tetragona Besch. Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 16: 
224. 3872. 
HABITAT AND TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘On trunks of trees, near summits 
of mountains in Jamaica.” 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica, Cuba, Santo Domingo; to Trinidad 
and Guiana; also in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, 
Costa Rica, and Panama. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Sp. Musc. #l. 63. 1801 (from Sweartx’ 
type). 
This moss is not uncommon in Jamaica and was known to 
Hans Sloane* and Dillenius,t who called it ‘the square-branched 
Hypnum from Jamaica.” Both of these authors figured it rather 
poorly. 
* Hist. Jam. 1: 68. pl. 25. f. 3. 1707. 
tT Hist. Musc. 335. pl. 43. f. 73. X741- 
