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often branched segments, eiliate as in the leaves. Shoot/sporophyte relationship 

 a coelocaule. Coelocaule clubshaped, thick, fleshy, covered with paraphyllia, the 

 unfertilized archegonia at the top. Fig. 5, a-?. 

 Habitat : On bark. 



CUBA: Oriente: Sierra Maestra, Morton 9552, 9554; Oricntc: along Rio Peladero, 

 Morton 9495 (US) ; Oriente Loma El Gato, Br. Hioram 136126 (F). 



JAMAICA: Cuna Cuna Gap, Maxon 9424; John Crow Peak, Britton (NT), Underwood 

 212 (NY); Morce's Gap, Philipson 1193, 1221 (BM); w of Mossman's Peak, Maxon 10211 

 p.p.; Sir John's Peak, Philipson 1095 (BM); slopes above Tweedside, 900 m, Maxon 1936; 

 Vinegar Hill Rd., Johnson f 2 (F) : s.l., Eggers (F) ; s.L, Wills 2 (BM). 



GUADELOUPE: s.l., Duss (NY). 



DOMINICA: Morne Diablotin, Elliott 1082 (BM). 



MARTINIQUE: s.l., Buss (NY). 



MEXICO: Pueblo: near Honey Station, Pringle 15332 (as I. robasta) (FH). 

 GUATEMALA: Quezaltenango : Quebrada El Pocito, Standley 85063 (F). 

 COSTA RICA: s.l., Brenes 20504 (F). 



COLOMBIA: s.l., Weir (NY); Antioquia, Bischler 65 (COL); Cauca: Paramo de Las 

 Papas, Bischler 727, 934 (COL). 



VENEZUELA: Estado Bolivar, Chimanta Massif, Abaeapa-tepuf, Steyermark 75025 p.p. 

 (NY) ; Mt. Roraima, Steycrmark 58708 p.p. (F) : Cerro der la Neblina, Rjo Yatua, Maguire, 

 Wurdack 4" Maguire 42550 (NY). 



ECUADOR: Mt. Tungurahua, Spruce (NY); Mt. Guayrapata, Spruce, (isotype NY); 

 s.l., Fraser 11 (BM); Pichincha, Jameson 258 (BM). 



BOLIVIA : s.l., Herzog, 4331, type of T. difficilis (G) ; Incachaca, Brooke 6725 A, 6811 

 p.p. (BM). 



The additional reports in the literature include, Guadeloupe (Jovet-Ast, 1960) and 

 Ecuador (Spruce, 1885). 



6. Trichocolea elegans Lehmann, Pug. 10: 8. 1875. 



Trichocolea verticillata Stephani, Bihang Sv. Vet.-akad. Handl. III. 26 6 : 57. 1900. 

 Trichocolea decrescens Stephani, Sv. Vet.-akad. Handl. 46 9 : 77. 1911. 



Plants of medium to large size, pale yellowish-green, in tufts or scattered 

 among other bryophytes ; stems to 5 cm long, with leaves to 2 mm wide, pin- 

 nately or bipinnately branched, the branches mostly 4 or 5 mm long; stems in 

 transverse section to 16 cells across, the cortical band of one or two layers of 

 somewhat smaller cells. Line of leaf insertion oblique, with the leaves succubous. 

 Leaves distant to approximate, spreading, subsymmetric, rarely long-decurrent, 

 to 1.0 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, divided to one-half of their length into usually 

 five major segments; the segments bifid or trifid with one of the divisions bent 

 back at a right angle to the lamina, the divisions sparingly eiliate, the cilia long, 

 simple or rarely branched, recurved, the cells averaging 95 X 9ft the cuticle 

 striolate-papillose ; lamina six to eight cells high, the cells averaging 64 X 25 p.. 

 Underleaves smaller, to 0.8 mm long, 1 mm w r ide, divided to one-half of their 

 length into two groups of three segments each with one of the segments of each 

 group bent backward as in the leaf, the cilia as in the leaf. Branch leaves and 

 underleaves similar, smaller. Male and female inflorescences and sporophyte 

 not seen. Fig. 6, a-e. 



Habitat : On soil or over other bryophytes. 



BRAZIL: S. Paulo: Campo Grande, Schiffner 463 p.p. 479 c (W). 



PATAGONIA-TIERRA DEL FUEGO: s.l., Middleton (BM) ; Corral, Thaxter 117 p.p. 

 (MICH) ; Desolation I: Puerto Angosta, Dusen 391 (G) ; Valdivia, Lechler, (type NY), Eahn 

 (G) ; s.l., Dusen, type of T. verticillata (G) ; Corral, Krduse (G), Thaxter 117 p.p. (MICH), 

 Thaxter 32, 132 (NY) ; Pto. Varas, Gertrud $ Hosseus 297 (NY) ; s.l., Dusen (NY) ; Puerto 

 Bueno, Dusen 52 (G) ; Cal. Rayo, Skottsberg 587, type of T. decrescens (G). 



JUAN FERNANDEZ: Masatierra, Skottsberg 137 (as T. decrescens) (G), Skottsberg 

 375, 384, 385, 386 (NY). 



Additional reports, in the literature, include, Chile (Arnell, 1955; Herzog, 1923, 1940, 

 1954; Herzog & Schwabe, 1939; Miiller, 1955: Reimers, 1926; Stephani, 1900 a, b, 1901a. 



