the Genus Streptopogon . 1 1 7 
A. Parkeri , Mitt. mss. ex Wright, in Journ. of Bot. xxvi, 264 
(1888) (nomen) ; Paris, Index bryolog. in Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 
li, 276 (1897). 
Foliis plerumque distantioribus et patulis vel patentibus, interdum 
confertioribus et erecto-patentibus, limbo angusto ad folii summum 
apicem producto vel longe infra apicem desinente, cellulis laxioribus. 
Hah, — Africa : Madagascar ; in sylva Ambatondrazaka (Ruten- 
berg, Dec. 6, 1877), c. fr. (operculum calyptraque desunt) I — sub 
S. Rutenhergii , C. Miill. ; Imerina, Andrangolbaka (J. M. Hildebrandt, 
Nov. 1880), nr. 2,098, c. fr. ! — sub S. Hildebrandtii \ C. Miill.; 
Central Madagascar (G. W. Parker), c. fr. ! — -sub S. Parkeri, Mitt. 
S. erythrodontus was discovered by Professor W. Jameson 
‘ on Pichincha, near Quito, and there are fine fruiting speci- 
mens in the Kew Herbarium labelled * west side of Pichincha, 
1846/ ‘ Andes of Quito, 1847/ anc ^ ‘Pichincha, 1848/ all 
collected by Jameson. It was from specimens of Jameson’s 
collecting, preserved in Greville’s herbarium, that Taylor ( 31 ) 
in 1846 described the present species under the name of 
Barbula erythrodonta, and on which Wilson ( 33 ) in 1851 
founded the genus Streptopogon . Later the species was 
collected by Spruce on Pichincha and other mountains of the 
Andes of Quito, where it is reported to occur abundantly; 
examples from here were distributed by Spruce in £ Muse. 
Amazon, et And., nrs. 141, 141 b, 141 c.’ Lindig in 1859 and 
1863, and also Weir, gathered it in Colombia (New Granada), 
in the Andes near Bogota, & c. These stations in the Andes 
of Ecuador and Colombia have been up to the present the 
only ones known for S', erythrodontus. In 1 897 Muller ( 23 ) pub- 
lished as a new species of Streptopogon a moss from Bolivia 
under the name of S. bolivianus, with the following description : 
‘ Caulis pollicaris superne in ramos perbreves fertiles fasciculatim 
divisus fusco-luteus horride foliosus ; folia caulina siccitate et humore, 
hue magis, patula longiuscula setacea, e basi elongata complicato- 
ovata in laminam elongatam acuminatam attenuata, nervo angusto 
ferrugineo in aristam longissimam flexuosam ferrugineam summitate 
saepius hyalinam protracto carinato-exarata, limbo latiusculo flavido 
ubique circumducta integerrima, e cellulis basi longioribus angustioribus 
