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excurrentinerve Kindb.; Sphagnum Mendocinum var.recurvum Roel; 
S. platyphyllum var. molluscum Roell ; and Weisia Grénlandica Kindb. 
The range of several species is greatly extended, notably Dicranum 
Miquelonense, D. Canadense and Muium decurrens from New Jersey; 
Cylindrothecium concinnum from Michigan; Leucobryum sediforme, 
fissidens Garberi, Leptotrichum Schimpert, Webera Lescuriana, 
Atrichum xanthopelma, Hypnum Coloradense and Amblystegium 
distantifolium Kindb. from Hot Springs, Arkansas. 
rh FD, 
Nouvelles Contributions a la Flore Biyologique du Bresil. V.F. 
Brotherus. Bih. till K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 21: 1-76. 1895. 
This contribution includes an enumeration of the collections 
of M. Mosen, N. Puiggari, W. Schwacke and others. The author 
has availed himself of the studies on the flora of Brazil made by 
Duby, Geheeb and Hampe; has received special assistance from 
Ch. Miiller, and has brought together a list of 70 genera and about 
300 species including 65 new ones in the following genera: Am- 
blystegium, Anomodon, Bryum, Campylopus, Catharinea, Cryphaea, 
D. istichophyllum, Lntodon, Eustichia, Fissidens, Helicodontium, Hook- 
eria, Hyophitla, Hypnum, Tsopterygium, Lepidopilum, Leucobryum, 
Leucoloma, Leucomium, Macromutrium, Microthamnium, Mniadel- 
phus, Neckera, Papillaria, Pilotrichella, Prionodon, Rhaphidostegium, 
Stereodon, Syrrhopodon, Thuidium and Trichosteleum. The largest 
number of species are found in the genera /issidens and Hook- 
era, with Campylopus, Papillaria, Rhaphidostegium and Syrrhopodon 
also represented by numerous species. EGE 
Die Laubmoose. K. G. Limpricht. Rab. Kryptfl. 4: (3) 129-256. 
1897. 
This includes parts 29-30 beginning with the remainder of the 
Brachythecums, describing the two varieties of B. rivulare and 
recognizing 2. latifolium. Bryhnia and Hyocomium do not include 
any American species. Of the four species of Scleropodium three 
are American, including H. purum ; in Eurhynchium there are only 
7 out of 22, of these £. civrhosum is described with fruit and three 
Varieties are recognized. In Rhynchostegium the only American 
Species, 2, rusciforme, is described with five varieties, and in Raphi- 
