US: : REVUE BRYOLOGIQUE 
visit and, though it might be rash to assume from this that these 
genera are wholly unrepresented in the island, they at least form 
no marked feature of its flora and no species of either of them is 
_ recorded in the Flora Balears of senor Barcelo y Combis. 
The flat lands of the central and south eastern portions of the 
island and which constitute about four fifths of its area are 
highly cultivated and afford very few favourable situations for 
mosses with the exception of here and there a wall which beneath 
a heavy coat of dust harbours a scanty growth of Barbula gra- 
_cilis, Camptothecium sericeum or ÆEurhynchium circinatum. It is 
. only in the mountains of the North and West that conditions 
more fayourable to mosses are found. These mountains form an 
exceedingly picturesque group which reaches its culminating 
point in the Puig Mayor de Torella (about 4700 feet), where so- 
mething of a vernal freshness lingers even into June, as I found 
the Balearic form of our common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) 
still in flower there as late as the 6th of that month. 
In the following list 1 have incorporated that given by Senor 
Barcelo y Combis in the « Flora Balear » (Palma 1879-1881) dis- 
tinguishing by an asterisk * fhose species which are not men- 
tioned in it as occuring in the island. The abbreviation F1. Bal. 
refers to this book. 
I am indebted to M° I. N. Dixon, Herr G. Roth, Prof. Schiffner, 
Mr W. I. Pearson and Dr P. Culmann for assistance in determi- 
ning some of the more obscure forms. 
__ MOSSES 
* Ceratodon chloropus, Brid. Waste ground by the torrente de 
Soller, Puerto and Castillo del Rey, Pollensa, st. : 
* Dicranella varia, Schp. Banks of a torrent bed near Pollensa. 
* Fissidens viridulus, Wahl. Shaded stones near the monastery 
at Lluch c. fr. — * F. rufulus, Br. et S. Valley leading to the 
Castillo del Rey, Pollensa with a few capsules. The plant is very 
like that from the Falls of the Rhine, but the leaves are perhapsa 
little shorter and rather less strongly margined, — F. decipiens, 
De Not. Walls in the neighbourhood of Soller, F1. Bal, Torrente de 
_Soller. 
* Schistidium confertum, B. S. Rocks on the Puig Mayor at 
about 4000 ft c. fr. A tall blackish form with no hair-points Lo the 
leaves and the capsules so deeply immersed that I did not reco- 
gnize it was in fruit until I brought it home. D' Culmann is incli- 
ned to regard it as a southern form, but as M. Dixon has pointed 
out to me I gathered in his company a very similar plant on the 
rocks above Heiligenblut blut in August 1904. 
