(114) 
slight, entire border; costa vanishing 2 or 3 cells below apex: 
seta 2-3 mm. high; capsule 0.5—o.75 mm. long, oblong, with 
obiagely beaked lid 0.25 mm. long; exothecal cells mostly 
short oblong, up to 24 4 wide, with somewhat thickened, 
scarcely sinuous walls, the 3 or 4 rows about mouth one third 
as large and rather irregular but not transversely elongated ; 
teeth of peristome erect, pale, more or less hyaline, undivided, 
distinctly cross-barred below and more or less vertically stri- 
ate throughout, somewhat papillose ; calyptra small, mitrate, 
split one half up: spores nearly smooth, up to 16 # in diameter. 
Tumupasa, 540 meters, at base of trees, January 20, 1902 
(1700); also on fallen logs (1703); Apolo, on fallen logs, 
July 7, 1902 (1698). 
SYRRHOPODON ELATIOR Hampe. 
Near Apolo, 1650 meters, on sandy bank along stream, 
July 25, 1902 (1858). 
SyRRHOPODON GoyAZzENsis Broth. 
Near Atten, 1650 meters, on earth of shaded hillside, 
August 16, 1902 (1859). 
SyrRruHopopon GaupicHaupiI Mont. 
Near Atten, 1800 meters, on tree trunks, August 6, 1902 
(1856). 
SyYRRHOPODON LrepRiIEuRI Mont. 
Near Achiquiri, 600 meters, on earth, June 17, 1902 (1857). 
Syrrhopodon tricolor sp. nov. 
In deep mats with flexuous-erect stems up to 11 cm. high, 
bearing few branches and dense tufts of radicles on the older 
parts: stem-leaves up to 3.5 mm. long, lanceolate from an 
obovate hyaline clasping base, gradually narrowed to the 
acute, irregularly serrate apex; upper leaf without border, 
finely papillose on both sides, when dry more or less twisted 
and incurved, when moist reflexed, of rather obscure, 
hexagonal cells 6-8 in diameter; leaf-margin below entire 
and narrowly reflexed to the basal part; hyaline cells of 
base from elongated-hexagonal to rectangular, up to about 
60 long and 12-15 wide, extending upward from one 
third to nearly one half the length of the leaf, with the green 
cells running down a short distance next costa and margin 
on either side; the more or less yellow border of basal part 
