198 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



tribution of the plants in the islands concerned is rendered much more 

 complete than it has ever been before. 



British Hepaticse.* — S. M. Macvicar records the discovery of the 

 rare hepatic, Geocalyx graveolms Nees, for the first time in the British 

 Isles, near the sea in West Boss-shire. It grows associated with other 

 Muscinea? on moist rocks, and on it were found the curious pouched 

 perigynia which characterise the genus. A new description of the plant 

 is supplied. 



A. Wilson and J. A. Wheldon t have discovered on Cockerham Moss 

 in West Lancashire a hepatic which proves to be Kantia submersa 

 Arnell, and was not previously known to occur in the British Isles. It 

 grows on wet sphagnum bogs. The description of it is republished 

 and some critical notes are appended. 



S. M. Macvicar i spent five weeks during June 1900 and 1001 in 

 the neighbourhood of Ben Lawers and explored the mountains to 

 determine their hepatic flora. He records his results, a total of some 

 114 species, and of these no less than seven are additions to the British 

 Flora. The species are mostly of the eastern type, but about a quarter 

 are of the western or Atlantic type. He adds several critical and some 

 general remarks on distribution. 



C. Crossland § completes his account of the hepatics found in the 

 neighbourhood of Halifax, and records Gi) species, one of which, 

 Jubula Hiitchinsice, is an addition to the county of Yorkshire. He 

 also considers the lichens of the district. 



European Hepaticse. ||—K. Miiller publishes a further list of 45 

 hepatics gathered in Alsace, four of which are new to the district, and 

 the rest noted as from new localities ; also 34 species from new localities 

 in the Alps, two being new to Switzerland. A few more species col- 

 lected by Roll in the Rhongebirge, the flora of which needs further 

 attention, and others from Tyrol, &c. are added. 



A. Holler IT publishes a list of 111 hepatics collected in the district 

 of Schwaben and Neuburg in Bavaria, with notes as to distribution, 

 geological strata, &c. The classification adopted is that of the Synopsis 

 Hepaticarum, with an indication of the modern genus to which each 

 plant is referred. 



European Mosses.** — W. Limpricht carries on the work of his father- 

 ly. G. Limpricht, who died last autumn, and publishes another part of 

 the supplement to his moss-flora, treating of the acrocarpous mosses 

 from Tortula to Bryum. 



J. Boll |t publishes a list of 57 species of mosses gathered in the 

 vicinity of Herkulesbad in South Hungary, and describes one new 

 species — Philonotis Schliepliaclcei — and eight new varieties. 



• Joum. of Bot., xli. (1903) pp. 1S-9. f Tom. cit., pp. 17-8. 



X Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, 1902, pp. 220-32. 

 § Halifax Naturalist, vii. (1903) Supplement, pp. 209-16. 

 U Beihefte z. Bot. Centralbl., xiii. (1902) pp. 205-71. 

 1 Ber. Naturw. Vereins f. Schwaben und Neuburg, 1902, pp. 65-90, 

 ** Rabenhorst's Kryptog.-Flora, IV. iii. Die Laubmoose, Lief. 38, Nachtrage, 

 1903, pp. 705-68. ft Hedwigia, xli. (1902) Beiblatt, pp. 215-8. 



