Holomitrium piliferum

Holomitrium piliferum (Mitt.) Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat
VI. 3 : 189. 1876.
Eucamptodon piliferus Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 69. 1869.
Pseudautoicous: male plants minute, growing on tomentum of the stem a little below the perichaetial buds, the antheridial leaves from lanceolate to broadly ovate, one third to nearly 1 mm. long, ecostate, with a very acute entire or nearly_ entire point; antheridia few, oblong, with few paraphyses: fertile plants in rather loose, glossy, yellowish-brown to darkbrown tufts, with robust stems up to 4 cm. high and 0.28 mm. in diameter: stem-leaves 7-8 mm. long, rather crowded, inflated, loosely imbricate, ovate-lanceolate with involute entire borders, terminating in a pale, flexuous, smooth hair-point about 1 mm. long; costa weak, about 30 fi wide below, indistinct above, in cross-section showing usually 2 large thick-walled cells on the upper side and a row of 5 or 6 small stereid-cells on the under side ; alar cells short and broad , forming a distinct, brownish cluster, the other cells quite uniform throughout the leaf, elongate, with much thickened and pitted walls, the median cells 40-80 m long and about 12 fi wide; inner perichaetial leaves with a convolute base about 1 cm. long, gradually narrowed to a smooth point about one half as lqng: seta 15-18 mm. long: capsule oblong-cylindric, 3.5 mm. long, with stomata in 1 or 2 rows near the base; annulus none; peristome-teeth extending about /x above the mouth, entire, narrowiy lanceolate, very slender and pale above, reddish below, papillose throughout: calyptra smooth, about 5 mm. long, split on one side far above the middle: spores rough, about 12 y. in diameter.
Type locality: Trinidad. .**..*«
Distribution: Cuba; Guadeloupe; Martinique; also in Trinidad.