WILLIAMS: CALYMPERACEAE OF NoRTH AMERICA 379 
13. SYRRHOPODON RECURVULUS Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 120. 
1869 
Dioicous, the male plants about like the fertile in habit, with 
numerous antherieial buds on very short axillary branches or 
terminal, the outer perigonial leaves about 1 mm. long, the inner 
one half as long, ovate, acute, costate, serrulate, enclosing about 
four antheridia without paraphyses: in compact, green mats 
with conspicuous, white leaf-bases and branching stems 1-2 cm. 
high; stem-leaves up to 3 mm. long, crispate when dry, from a 
somewhat oblanceolate or oblong base, ciliate to nearly entire on 
border, gradually narrowed to a nearly linear or linear-lanceolate 
point. about one and one half times longer, with acute, slightly 
serrulate apex and pale yellow border entire below the apex, costa 
nearly percurrent, smooth on both sides except at the dentate or 
spiny-dentate apex, about 25 « wide and one sixth width of leaf — 
one half down, in cross-section near middle showing about four 
guide-cells with stereid bands above and below and outer cells not 
differentiated; cells throughout upper part of leaf rather distinct, 
somewhat angular, not or slightly elongate, about 6 4 wide by 
6-8 yu long, rather densely papillate and mamillate on both. sides of 
upper leaf, becoming more distinctly mamillate on upper surface 
just above the cancellinae; cancellinae nearly filling the erect 
leaf-base, mostly rounded above; perichaetial leaves much like 
stem-leaves but inner with shorter, green point; pedicel 6-7 mm. 
long; capsule oblong, about 1. 35 mm. long with slender-beaked 
lid half as long: peristome-teeth golden brown, lanceolate, ee 
lose with rather indistinct articulations, extending about 
above the rim of capsule; spores rough, 12 wu in diameter; sebeiotts 
rough above. [FiG. 13.] 
TYPE LocALiry: Cuba. 
DisTRIBUTION: known only finn Cite: 
Exsiccati: Wright’s Cuban Mosses 47 (as S. Gaudichaudt:). 
Very similar to S. Gaudichaudii but more or less ciliate- 
toothed on upper margin of leaf-base. 
14. Syrrhopodon graminicola Williams, sp. nov. 
Flowers and fruit unknown: in small, dull green tufts with 
stout, branching, flexuous stems I-2 cm. high, bearing incurved- 
imbricate or sometimes spreading flexuous and more or less crispate 
leaves when dry; upper stem-leaves from an ovate, nearly or 
quite entire base 0.75-1.4 mm. wide gradually narrowed to an 
oblong-linear or oblong-lanceolate; acute and apiculate point 
up to about twice as long, with hyaline border of elongate cells 
