THE BRYOLOGIST 



Vol. XXIV March, 192 i No. 2 



BAHAMA MOSSES 



Elizabeth G. Britton 



The following is a list of the mosses, 33 species in 28 genera, contributed 

 by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton to the Bahama Flora. ^ The list is printed here 

 for convenience of reference by those who have not access to the original pub- 

 lication. 



Leucobryum albidum (Brid.) Lindb., Octoblepharum albidum (L.) Hedw., 

 Fissidens monandrus Mitt., Fissidens Garberi Lesq. & James, Fissidens radicans 

 Mont., Calymperes Richardi C. M., Syrrhopodon Gaudichaudii Mont., Tortula 

 agraria Sw., Gyroweisia Barbula (Schwaegr.) Paris, Hymenostomum flavescens 

 E. G. Britton, sp. nov., Hyophila Tortula (Schwaegr.) Hampe, Desmatodon 

 Garberi Lesq. & James, Barbula Crugeri Sond., Trichostomum rivale (Mitt.) 

 Jaeg., Macromitrium mucronifolium (Hook. & Grev.) Schwaegr., Schlotheimia 

 SulHvantii C. M., Funaria hygrometrica (L.) Sibth., Funaria flavicans Michx., 

 Bryum capillare L., Bryum coronatum Schwaegr., Leucodontopsis floridana (Aust.) 

 E. G. Britton, Pireella cymbifolia (Sull.) Cardot, Papillaria nigrescens (Sw.)' 

 Jaeg., Stereophyllum radiculosum (Hook.) Mitt. {Homalia Wrightii Sull.), Haplo- 

 cladium microphyllum (Sw.) Broth., Amblystegium Sipho (Beauv.) E. G. Britton, 

 Isopterygium micans (Sw.) Cardot, Vesicularia vesicularis (Schwaegr.) Broth., 

 Mittenothamnium diminutivum (Hampe) E. G. Britton, Taxithelium planum 

 (Brid.) Spruce, Sematophyllum subpinnatum (Brid.) E. G. Britton, Semato- 

 phyllum admistum (Sull.) Mitt., Sematophyllum sericifolium Mitt. 



Hymenostomum flavescens E. G; Britton, sp. nov. Bahama Flora, p. 

 485. 1920. 



Plants usually light yellowish-green. Stems short, 3-5 mm. high; leaves 

 1.5-2 mm. long; apex lanceolate, incurved and cucullate, base broader and 

 hyaline; margins inroUed, entire; vein stout, rough above, ending in the mu- 

 cronate point; lower cells clear and smooth, up to 67^ long; upper cells only 

 8^1 long, densely papillose on both surfaces, with 3-4 small papillae. Dioicous. 

 Pedicel slender, 10-15 mm. long, erect; capsule ovoid-cylindric, 1-1.25 mm. 

 long with the beaked lid; calyptra cucullate, twisted; peristome and annulus 



1 The Bahama Flora. By Nathaniel Lord Britton and Charles Frederick Millspaugh. pp. 

 477-500. New York. 26 June, 1920. 



The January number of The Bryologist was published March 22, 192 1. 



