Leucobryum Moss

Leucobryum antillarum Scfiimp.; Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat
VI. 3: 190. 1876.
Leucobryum costaricense Besch. Jour, de Bot. 11: 153, hyponym. 1897. Leucobryum jamaicense C. Miill. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 547. 1897. Leucobryum subglaucum C. Mull. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 548. 1897. Leucobryum sciuroides C. Mull. Hedwigia 37: 221. 1898. Leucobryum Eggersianum C. Mull. Hedwigia 37: 221. 1898. Leucobryum glaucovirens Card. Rev. Bryol. 36: 69. 1909. Leucobryum fiaccidulum Card. Rev. Bryol. 37: 119. 1910.
Male plants unknown: fertile plants in rather loose tufts, with flexuous stems up to 8 cm. high and leaves from an imbricate base, spreading-flexuous all round or sometimes secund: stemleaves 5-10 mm. long, from an ovate base 1.5-2 mm. long, tapering to a subtubulose point, denticulate at the apex, from a little longer than the base~of the leaTto 3 gmesas_ £ng7'costarin"cross-"section"near the base showing 1 layer of cells above and 1 below the chlorocysts in the middle and mostly 3 layers above and 3 below in the thicker parts ; hyaline blade 6-10 rowsof cells wide below.
Type locality: Guadeloupe. .
Distribution: Throughoutthe West Indies; Mexico; Costa Rica and Panama; also in northern