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Notes on mosses from South Tyrol and Carinthia. NICHOLSON. — Muscinées 
de l’Asie Orientale (9% article). PARIS. — Schistidium tarentasiense. SE- 
BILLE. — Diagnoses préliminaires de mousses du Congo belge et de 
Casamanca. CARDOT. Ru 
Notes on mosses from South Tyrol and Carinthia 
The following notes are the result of a holiday spent in the 
company of M° H. N. Dixon, to whom many of the notes are du 
in South Tyrol and Carinthia in August 1904. À flying visit w 
also made to Verona and the lake of Garda. Some apology may 
seem necessary for treating of a district already rendered famous 
by the classical researches of Hoppe and Hornschuch in the dawn 
of modern bryology and the southern part of which was so care- 
fully examined in more recent time by D° Milde, but of so rich a 
district it may well be said : « Et ce champ ne se peut tellement 
» moissonner que les derniers venus n’y trouvent à glaner.» 
Some of our gleanings are, I think, of sufficient interest tobe 
worth recording. Few districts exhibit a rapid transition from 
North to South more strikingly than the region lying immediately 
to the South of the Brenner pass. In the course of less than two 
hours the train brings one from the cool heights of the pass to 
the hot valley below and the sombre pine forest gives way to a 
southern luxuriance, where the fig, the vine and other fruits 
ispute with the maize and tobacco for the cultivated land and 
the lentisk and the celtis lend their charm to the rocky slop 
above. Here, as in Ticino, the alps form an impenetrable barrier 
against the North and a vegetation thrives which the latitude 
alone would not account for. These southern conditions are reflec 
ed in the mosses in such species as Z'ortula inermis, Timmiella 
‘anomala, Anomodon tristis, Fabronia vetoblepharis, Braunia alo- 
Pecura and Z'huidium pulchellum. R 
* Owing to the warmth only a short time was spent in the lower 
