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Martinique; also 5. Wrightii Carl Miiller, 1887, is now (191 1) included under the 

 same species as a variety. This last species was based upon the specimen (no. 

 i) in Wright's Musci cubenses named by Sullivant 5. cymhifolium, and its inclu- 

 sion under S. guadalupense was already foreshadowed by C. Miiller, who 

 included with it specimens named 5". guadalupense Schimp. from Guade- 

 loupe.^ It agrees very well with 5. erythrocalyx, except that it is not so 

 strongly pigmented, a feature frequent in Cuban specimens of this species. S. 

 Sintenisii C. M., 1898, from Porto Rico is retained by Warnstorf,^ but the type 

 material in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden represents a rather 

 robust specimen of 5. erythrocalyx, as do also the specimens collected by Heller-* 

 (no. 1339) and by Underwood & Griggs"* (no. 949) on the same island. 5. 

 brevicaule Warnstorf, 1900, from North Carolina is also retained.^ This is quite 

 characteristic S. erythrocalyx, so far as I can see from examination of the type 

 from the United States National Herbarium. The same applies to 5. Har- 

 peri Warnstorf, 1904, from Georgia, of which I have also seen type, and finally 

 to S. Earlei Warnstorf, 191 1, from Cuba and S. Huntii Warnstorf, 191 1, from 

 British Honduras, part of the type of the latter having been kindly sent me by 

 Rev. D. Lillie of Scotland, from whose herbarium it was described. Type 

 material of S. Earlei was obligingly furnished me by Mr. H. H. Bartlett. It 

 was collected by Earle in Herradura, Cuba, and seems to me to agree satisfactor- 

 ily with other specimens collected in the same locality by Baker (no. 4881) and 

 by Mrs. Britton (no. 6650) as well as with that of Wright, already mentioned, 

 and others from other Cuban localities, all of which I have felt obliged to refer 

 to 5. erythrocalyx. Baker's specimen bears a herbarium name, 6". cubense, of 

 Warnstorf, which its author seems to have forgotten^ Warnstorf describes 

 for 5, Earlei slightly papillose inner walls of the hyaline cells of the branch 

 leaves where overlying the chlorophyll cells.' These papillae are but slightly 

 developed and very difficult to make out and to my mind go merely to show 

 the close relationship of the South American forms with and without papillae 



To be Continued 



1 Flora 70 : 411. 1887. 



2 L. c. 474. 191 1. 



3 Warnstorf has corrupted the name to Steller and retained the phonetic spelling Vega Baha 

 (for Baja), of the label. 



^This last less robust specimen, also collected near Vega Baja, is placed by Warnstorf (p. 

 S07) with 5. guadalupense. 

 ^ L. c. 460. 191 1. 



^The specimen he now includes under S. guadalupense var. Wrightti. 

 ^ L. c. 449. 191 1. 



