No 1 - 34e ANNÉE | 1907 
D REVUE BRYOLOGIOUE 
ParaissanT Tous LES Deux Mois 
Les Manuscrits doivent être écrits en français, en latin ou en anglais 
Sommaire du n° 4 
Contributions to a list of the mosses and hepatics of Majorca. NICHOLSON. — 
Nouvelles remarques sur le n° 825 des Musci-Galliae. CULMANN. — Cau- 
serie sur les Harpidia (suite). RENAULD. — Lophocolea minor Nees est-il 
ane bonne espèce? Doux. — Ephemerum stellatum dans la flore pari- 
sienne. Douin. — Nouvelles. 
Contributions to a list of the mosses and hepatics 
of Majorca 
The following account of the mosses and hepaties of Majorca 
is the outcome of à fortnight’s visit paid to the island in the early 
part of June 1905. Most of the time was spent in the picturesque 
_and mountainous north western part of the island, where Soller 
and the Puig Mayor de Torella, the monastery of Nuestra Senora 
de Lluch and the quaint old Roman town of Pollensa were succes- 
sively visited. The neighbourhood of Palma de Mallorca was also 
slightly examined and a flying visit was paid to Manacor to ex- 
plore the remarkable stalactite cave, cueva de Drach, but this 
visit was not very productive of mosses. 
There is nothing at all in the moss-flora of the island to corres- 
pond with the remarkable phanerogamic flora of the Balearic 
group, of which about 3 per cent is wholly endemic, while almost 
as many plants are common in the islands, but are very rare and 
_evidently dying out on the mainland. : 
A rainfall amounting at least at Palma only to about 18 inches 
in the year and which is insufficient to maintain any water in 
the river beds during the summer, a sky more often cloudless than 
not and a very dry atmosphere are causes unfavourable Lo a rich 
moss-flora and, as might be expected, many of the species, such 
as Ceratodon chloropus, Timmiella Barbula, Tortula inermis and 
Targionia hypophylla are of a markedly xerophytic type. 
To a bryologist aceustomed to botanizing in northern lands the 
moss-flora of Majorca is perhaps more remarkable for the absence 
of familiar forms than for the presence of rarities : Thus I saw 
no species of Polytrichum, Rhacomitrium ot Dicranum during My 
