378 WILLIAMS: CALYMPERACEAE OF NorTH AMERICA 
None of the specimens examined show propagula, but on the 
St. Kitts and Jamaican specimens are found young plants, one 
to three on a leaf, growing from radicles scattered along the leaf 
point. 
12. SYRRHOPODON LYCOPODIOIDES (Sw.) C. Miill. Syn. 1: 538. 
1849 
Bryum lycopodioides Sw. Prodr. 139. 1788. 
Dioicous, male plants more slender than the fertile, bearing 
several axillary, scattered antheridial buds, the inner perigonial 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, nearly entire, enclosing numerous 
antheridia about 0.8 mm. long with few paraphyses: in loose 
brownish to pale green tufts with somewhat branching stems up to 
8-10 cm. high; stem-leaves up to 9 or 10 mm. long, from an oblan- 
ceolate, slightly wider, nearly entire, erect base rather gradually 
narrowed to a spreading, flexuous, linear-lanceolate point with 
acute apex and bordered all round by a thickened, distantly 
serrate margin of brown, elongate cells enclosing a small band of 
stereid cells; costa not quite percurrent, smooth on both sides, 
about 80 u wide one half up the leaf and one fifth the width of leaf, 
in cross-section showing six guide-cells, stereid bands above and 
below with outer cells differentiated all round; cells of middle and 
upper blade smooth on both sides, angular, not or slightly elongate, 
up to 12-14 uw in diameter, in lower leaf and just above the can- 
cellinae often very irregular, transversely or. obliquely elongate, 
with unequally thickened walls; cancellinae mostly broad and 
somewhat rounded above, filling one half to two thirds the erect 
leaf-base; perichaetial leaves much like stem-leaves, often longer 
and extending above the capsule; pedicel about 10 mm. long; 
capsule ovate-oblong or somewhat spindle-shaped, when dry 
contracted under the mouth, about 3 mm. long; lid with slender 
beak about two thirds capsule in length; peristome teeth incurved 
when dry and not projecting above the mouth, when moist, 
extending about 80 above the rim of capsule, golden brown, . 
very irregular, more or less divided along median line; spores 
A up to 22 in diameter; calyptra smooth above. [FI. 
t2; 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
DisTRIBUTION: Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Guadeloupe, Mar- 
tinique, Trinidad and northern South America. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hedw. Sp. Musc. Suppl. pl. 4o. 
