( 232) 
branches often somewhat longer; leaves when dry spirally 
twisted about stem; the upper and outer perichaetial leaves, 
with blade about 1.7 mm. long and excurrent costa 0.3 mm. 
long, varying from ovate to oblong-lanceolate and oblong- 
linear; leaf margin flat and entire all round with an indis- 
tinct border of mostly one row of very narrow thin-walled 
cells; stem leaves few, not decurrent, keeled along the costa 
with blade nearly flat on either side; median leaf-cells elon- 
gate-hexagonal, thin-walled, about 16 » wide and 40 p long; 
capsule, on a seta up to 3 cm. high, dark red, pendant, some- 
what contracted below the mouth when empty with oblong 
sporangium tapering into a somewhat shorter collum; lid 
convex-mamillate; annulus large; teeth of exostome pee 
granulose on outer face, the plates about 16 # wide b 
long; inner lamellae up to 28; segments of ere with 
rounded apertures and three appendiculate cilia between ona 
basilar membrane over one half the height of teeth; spores 
nearly smooth, upto 12 w. 
Near Aten on rather dry clayey soil at 1400 meters ele- 
vation, June 18, 1902 (1897). This species is near elegans 
which has broader, shorter leaves with different border. 
Brrum cavum C. M. 
Apolo, 1500 meters elevation, July 10, 1902 (1898). 
BryUM DENSIFOLIUM Brid. 
Near Aten, 1600 meters, June 19, 1902 (1907). 
RuyopospryumM BEyRICHIANUM (Hornsch.) Paris. 
Trail between San José and Apolo, Feb. 12, 1902, at 1800 
meters elevation (1905). Near Yuyu, 1100 meters, June 18, 
1902 (1904). 
RHODOBRYUM GRANDIFOLIUM (Tayl.) Paris. 
Santa Anna, Apolo region, 1800 meters, July 29, 1902 
(1906). Rio Pelichuco, 2700 meters, April 28, 1902 (2796). 
MaxiumM Ltigutatum C. M. 
Santa Cruz, 1600 meters elevation, on wet log by water- 
fall, Aug. 25, 1902 (1893). Near Aten, on rock, at 1500 
meters, Aug. 4, 1902 (1892). These specimens have rather 
larger leaves than any European or N. A. specimens of 
