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REVUE BRYOLOGIQUE 
ParaissanT Tous LES Deux Mois 
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Sommaire du n° 4 
Notes on Mosses from the Bernese Oberland. Dixon. — Contribution à la flore 
bryologique de l'Oberland bernois. ManTiN. — Philonotis caespitosa 
var. adpressa. Dismier. — Sur quelques mousses de Madère et des 
- Pyrénées. GeuxEB. —: Les Splachnum luteum et rubrum ont ils été 
observés au Mexique? GEHEEB. — Contribution à la flore bryologique du 
Mexique. GEHEEB. — Distribution du Tetraplon mauioides en Allemagne. 
Genres. — Le Fissidens grandifrons existe-t-il en Abyssinie ? GEHKEB. 
Nouvelles. : Le 
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Notes on Mosses from the Bernese Oberland. 
: During a visit to Adelboden in the Bernese Oberland, in 
July, 1906, I collected a certain number of mosses, some of which 
seemed to be of suflicient interest to deserve recording. [ have Lo 
thank Dr P. Culmann and M' W. E. Nicholson for valuable help 
in working out some of the more critical species. 
I did not find the immediate neighbourhood of Adelboden par- 
licularly rich in mosses. As à rule, [ think, in the Swiss Alps the 
richer haunts of mosses are found in one or other of two zones, 
_a lower, viz. the subalpine woodland zone, Where rolling stump 
and rocky boulder are often carpeted with mosses in rich luxu- 
riance ; and a more elevated one, near the snow line, where gla- 
cial conditions prevail, and the hardy moss has little to fear from 
compelitors higher in the scale of plant life. The intermediate 
zones, characterised by alpine pastures and woods of pine and 
spruce seem as a rule less productive, except under special cir- 
cumstances, as in the immediate vicinity of a waterfall. The first- 
named_ conditions do not exist to any great extent in the Adelbo= 
den valley, while the cireumstances of my slay did not admit 0 
much botanizing at the higher altitudes ; il is quite possible 
however that a closer study, especially on the higher ground, 
might have revealed a richer and more interesting moss-flora. 
The best results came from a walk over the Bonder Krinde to 
= Kandersteg and the Gemmi, relurning over the Engstligen Grat ; 
