38e ANNÉE 1914 
REVUE BRYOLOGIQUE 
PARAISSANT TOUS LES Deux Mois 
Les manuscrits doivent être écrits en français, en latin ou en anglais : 
Sommaire du n° 4 
Fossombronia echinata nov, sp. Macvicar.— Notes sur quelques espéces 
du genre Grimmia. CULMANN. — Coup d’œil sur la flore bryologique du 
Mexique. CArDoT. — Des nomina nuda Paris. — Recherches sur les 
formes monoïques du groupe sylvatico-denticulatum du genre Plagiothe- 
cium (suite). MEYLAN. — Une Nouvelle varièté de mousses de la Sardaigne. 
Zoppa. — Etudes phytogéographiques sur les mousses de la Haute Saône. 
Corpey. — Nécrologie. — Bibliographie. — Nouvelles, 
Fossombronia echinata nov. sp. 
by Symers M. Macvicar 
Monoica? Laxe cæspitosa vel gregaria, habitu et magnitudine 
F. Wondraczekii similis. Caulis ad 1 mm. longus, furcatus, subtus 
vinosus radicellosus. Folia imbricata, adseendentia, obeuneata 
vel reniforma, superne repanda; folia apicalia majora, conferta, 
crispata, lolis obtusis rotundatis, integerrimis. Sporæ 35-4lu diam, 
fusco-brunneæ, papillis 2-4 g altis acutis vel subacutis creberrimis 
hispidissimæ 12-14 in diametro ostendentes. Elateres ad 200 y 
longi, 1-5 y lati, bispiri, spiræ laxe tortæ flavo brunneæ. 
Hab. Algeria, Belida, Mouzaiaville, Jan. 1867, leg. Major Paris 
(Gott. et Rabh. Hep. Eur. Exs. n° 439); Dalmatia, Metkovie, 
Karstterrain Teim Dorfe Maliprolog, 10.3. 1908, leg. D' Latzels 
(determ. Schiffner as Foss verrucosa Lindb. in Hep. Latzelianæ in 
Verh. der k.k. Zool. Bot. Ges. in Wien, p.34, 1909); Italy, Amalfi, 
april 1910, leg. W. E. Nicholson. 
This species is at once distinguished from F. cœspiliformis by- 
the smaller spores and by the papillæ being shorter, much more 
numerous and acute, the margin appearing densely hispid. It clo- 
sely resembles F. Millenii Tindall, the original specimen of which 
species I have had the opportunity of examining through the 
kindness of Mrs. Tindall. The latter plant has the numerous 
broader and with à broader base, more compressed, and the apex, 
although narrow, is generally truncate; the size of the spores 
differs considerably, those of F. Mitlenii being much larger, 
papillæ of F. echinata and of about the same length, but they are à 
