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W. Ingham * supplements his previous list of Sphagna of Yorkshire 

 and Durham by an account of the additional species and varieties 

 found by himself in the former county. 



W. P. Hamilton f publishes a localised list of the Sphagna of Shrop- 

 shire, renamed in accordance with Warnstorfs revision of the genus. 



French Moss Flora. — F. Camus J records the occurrence of the 

 Mediterranean moss Ceratodon chloropus Brid., on the island of Noir- 

 moutier, on the Atlantic coast of France, and suggests that it should 

 be looked for in other spots along that coast. 



C. Meylan § reports the results of his gatherings of Muscinese in the 

 Jura during the past three years. He adds eleven mosses and twelve 

 hepatics to the flora of the chain of the Jura. 



Ravaud || continues his guide to the collector of mosses and lichens 

 in the neighbourhood of Grenoble, that is to say, he records the various 

 plants that may be gathered on the various rocks and soils passed by the 

 wayfarer as he takes a definite walk described by the author, e.g. from 

 La Grave to Villard-d'Arene. 



Moss Flora of French Caverns. f — L. Geneau de Lamarliere and 

 J. Maheu publish a third contribution to our knowledge of the mosses 

 which occur in underground caverns. These latter are very numerous 

 in the Jurassic strata of the department of the Yonne in central France. 

 Very few species of mosses occur on the surface owing to the dryness 

 of the limestone. Some of these species occur in the caves, and with 

 them are others which are not known to grow on the surface in the 

 neighbourhood of the caves. The caves are dry, and the mosses growing 

 in them are usually xerophilous and calcicolous in character, and owing 

 to the comparative darkness are considerably modified in habit. About 

 a score of species are recorded, and six of these are so modified that 

 they are described as definite varieties. 



German Mosses.** — V. v. Cypers continues his list of the cryptogams 

 of the Riesengebirge district by giving an enumeration of the pleuro- 

 carpous mosses with annotations. He distinguishes a new variety of 

 Brachythecium rivulare. 



Japanese Mosses.tt — E. G. Paris publishes a list of the mosses 

 gathered by Faurie in 1900 in the southern part of Japan, from South 

 Nippon to the Liu-Kiu Islands. He records several new species and 

 describes twenty-two of them with the collaboration of V. F. Brotherus. 

 Two genera, Leucoloma and Trichosteleum, were previously unknown in 

 Japan. At the close of the paper is a list of the Japanese mosses 

 gathered by Ferrie, and among them are several new species by 

 C. Mueller and by Brotherus, but at present they are undescribed. 



Muscinese of South-East Asia. $ J — E. G. Paris gives an account of 

 twenty-four mosses and eleven hepatics gathered in the French posses- 



* The Naturalist, 1902, pp. 381-3. t Journ. Bot., xl. (1902) pp. 416-9. 



X Bevue Bryologique, xxix. (1902) pp. 119-20. 



§ Tom. cit., pp. 120-7. || Tom. cit., pp. 98-103. 



% Journ. de Bot., xvi. (1902) pp. 266-79. 

 ** Verh. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesell., Hi. (1902) pp. 530-9. 

 tt Bull. Herb. Boise., ser. 2, ii. (1902) pp. 918-33, 988-93. 

 XX Bevue Bryologique, xxix. (1902) pp. 93-7. 



