ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



fully the forms seen by him from British localities, and compares 

 them with those of the Continent of Europe. He briefly describes 

 and distinguishes the forms recognised by him as British, and (for 

 most) names localities from which he has seen examples. His list is 

 as follows : 



Subsection i, Eu-eapreolatse. 



1. F. capreolata, L. 



Subspecies i, capreolata (sensu stricto = F. pallidiflora, 



Jord.) 

 Subspecies 2, speciosa, Jord. 



2. F. purpurea, n. sp. ( = F. Borcei, auct. angl., non Jord.). 



Subsection 2, Murales. 



3. F. muralis, Sond. 



Subspecies i, muralis (sensu stricto). 

 Subspecies 2, Bortzi, Jord. 

 Var. verna, Clavaud. 

 Var. nov., ambigua. 

 Var. serotina, Clavaud ( = F. muralis, auct. angl., 



pro parte). 



Var. muraliformis, Clavaud ( = F. muralis, auct. 

 angl., /./.). 



4. F. confusa, Jord. 



Of the forms distinguished as species and subspecies, plate 436 

 figures flowers and fruiting pedicels and their bracts. 



New British Hepatic. In the " Revue Bryologique" of thepresent 

 year, pp. 26-32, there is a paper by Dr. W. Arnell with descriptions 

 and figures of three new species of Kantia from Sweden. One of 

 them, Kantia suecica, Arn. and Pers., found on decaying wood in the 

 province of Herjedalen by Herr J. Persson in 1899, seemed to be 

 similar to a plant which I had found in a similar position in the 

 ravine of Resipol burn, West Inverness, in the same year, and which 

 had been named K. trichomanis by an authority. I recently sent a 

 specimen to Dr. Arnell as his K. suecica, and he replied that "it 

 appeared to be perfectly identical " with the Swedish plant. In the 

 latter station the plant occurs with Blepharostoma trichophyllum, 

 Cephalozia lunulcefolia, Jung, guttulata, andyi Helleriana. The Resi- 

 pol plant is accompanied with Cefh. curvifolia. It is a very slender 

 plant, about the size of Ceph. lunul&folia, and is distinguished from 

 Kantia trichomanis not only by its small size, but by its dioecious 

 inflorescence. Is is also of a paler colour, not glaucous, with cell- 

 walls of leaf somewhat distinctly thickened at the angles, and stipules 

 more deeply incised, with the lobes triangular and rather acute. 

 SYMERS M. MACVICAR. 



British Moss-Flora, by Dr. R. Braithwaite. Of this important 

 work part xxi. (Vol. III. pp. 129-168, plates cix.-cxiv.), appeared in 



