46 JAMAICA MOSSES AND HEPATIC. 
in Dr. Spruce’s work above alluded to—a work admirable for 
pluses and research, which should be in the hands of all students 
of the tribe, whatever opinions we may hold as to the necessity of 
the changes and the substitution of such meaningless terms as 
Bazzania for the classic and familiar eo yum 
The species having an asterisk prefixed are here first recorded 
for J a and are thirty-eight in pamher, thirteen of them being 
Hepa 
SPHAGNACER. 
*1. Sphagnum pulchricoma C. Mull. Synops.; Mitt. Mus. Aust. 
Amer . squarrosum Hornsch. —- A Brazilian pene haying 
exactly the aspect of large forms of S. recurvum Beauv 
AcROCARPI. 
*2. a os — C. Mull. Synops. Gymnostomum Br. & Sch. ; 
Mitt.—St. Th 
3. Dyhodonhdlane " Bogotense Hampe in Linnea. Trichostomum 
strictum Schwg. Cynontodium Mitt.—This has entirely the aspect 
of Leptotrichum, and closely resembles L. pallidum Hedw., one 0 
those mosses which, while present in North America and Germany, 
are absent in Britain. 
m Bor 
Mitten remarks of the Jamaica specimens he had seen ‘“withou 
fruit, but agreeing in other respects with Beauvais’ — —_ 
the Isle of Bourbon in Herb. Hooker,’ as also do the presen 
5. Campylopus porphyreodictyon C. Mull.—A few detached nants 
ee Mastigobryum. 
oa C. proliferus C. Mull. Saggy haa ae Muscorum, ii. 602 ; 
Mus. Austr. Amer.--No fruit, but both male and female 
tcc in distinet tufts. C. Muller's Joninip tel is so exact as to 
leave no room for doubt. Venezuela. 
*7, C. Richardi Brid. Plijsiicosaiteiun Schwg. Dicranum C. Mull. 
Synops.—Andes ; Guadaloupe. 
8. Pilopogon gr acilis Brid. Didymodon Hook. Mus. Exo 
9. Holomitrium calyeinum Swartz; Hedw. — rangetle 
t. 14. —This seems restricted to Jamaica hitherto 
*10. Fissidens circinans Schimp.; C. Mull. in Botanische Zei- 
tung; Mitt. Mus. Aust. Amer. 586.—-This resembles F’, adiantoides 
of Bryol. Europ. and Bryol. Brit. (#. majus Mitt. in Journ. Linn 
Soc.) in size and aspect, and might easily pass for it it at sight; but 
cio ha ston inflorescence and the ee of the leaves. Mexico 
Leucobryum glaueum (L.) Hampe. — — fruit ; appa- 
renily not differing from the ordinary ’ British plan 
longifolium Hampe; C. ops. L albicans Lindb. 
Ae e and handsome, but eta 
18.2. ie ape de Raddi; Mitt. L. giganteum C. Mull. L. 
robustum eee v.—TIn large dense tufts. 
14. L. crispum C. Mall. Synops. i. 78. L. Martianum Hampe 
in Linnea ; pen Hornsch. 
