(239) 
These specimens have the costa often forking above as do the 
specimens of Lorentz from Argentine. The spindle-shaped 
propagulae are very abundant in dense clusters in the axils 
of the leaves. They have 7 or 8 cross-walls and measure 
about 125 # by 35 wv. 
ORTHOSTICHOPSIS CRINITA (SULL.) BRotu. 
Mapiri, 550 meters, Sept. 13, 1901 (1947). 
Squamidium diversifolium sp. nov. 
Evidently dioicous, no antheridia found, archegonial flowers 
abundant: stems creeping, bearing julaceous, Saas crowded 
branches a centimeter or two long and I mm. in diameter 
when moist, or with the tips of the branches ieaeeras out 
into much longer, flagelliform, very slender, curved or pen- 
dent branches up to 12 cm. long with sometimes short-scat- 
tered branchlets ;. leaves of the stouter branches about 1 mm. 
long, decurrent, broadly ovate or rotundate, very concave, 
entire or minutely serrulate above with short, acute, mostly 
entire point, ecostate to narrowly costate three fourths up; 
leaf-cells above all narrow, medium about 5 # wide and 55 pu 
long, basal slightly thickened and pitted, alar forming dis- 
tinct, convex clusters of nearly square cells; leaves of the 
flagelliform branches ovate- pe ee the blade 1.5 mm. 
long, gradually narrowed t exuous point up to 1 mm 
long, with some short, ee often recurved teeth at its 
lanceolate apex, the outer much shorter: fruit not obtained. 
On Pelichuco River below Pelichuco, 2600 meters elevation, 
April 30, 1902 (2856). Tigrepata, 1500 meters, Feb. 12, 
1902 (2137). The latter specimens with long pendent 
branches. This species is near S. z7¢edum (Sull.) Broth. 
SQUAMIDIUM LEUCOTRICHUM (Tayl.) Broth. 
Near Apolo, 1900 meters, July 25, 1902 (1949). 
PILOTRICHELLA viripis (C. M.) Jaeg. 
Tumupasa, 430 meters, Jan. 14, 1902 (1945). Santa Bar- 
bara, Apolo region, 1550 meters, Aug. 30, 1902 (1944). 
PILOTRICHELLA FLEXILIs (Sw.) Jaeg. et Sauer. 
Near Pelichuco, 2900 meters, April 30, 1902 (2763). 
