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archegonia, and antkeridia, and the distribution of the plant in France. 

 He has never found it to be gemmiparous. 



Irish Hepatics.* — D. McArdle gives a list of 32 hepatics gathered 

 near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. 



H. W. Lettf corrects the statement that Riccia glaucescens was 

 found for the first time in Ireland in 1902. He possesses specimens 

 collected in Co. Antrim in 1895, in which year their discovery was 

 announced in two periodicals. 



Sphagna of Upper Teesdale.J — E. C. Horrell gives a list of 28 species 

 and 81 varieties of Sphagnacege collected by him and D. A. Jones, 

 within a radius of three miles, during a month's residence in Upper 

 Teesdale. Notes upon the ten localities searched and the noteworthy 

 species found in them are given. These localities lie in Durham, north- 

 west Yorkshire, and Westmoreland. Forms of the acutifolium group 

 and of 8. medium were abundant, but species of the subsecundum and 

 cuspidatum groups were scarce. 



Homalia lusitanicaj — A. Casares-Gil gives a detailed description 

 of the monoicous inflorescence and fructification of this species found by 

 him in February on plants growing near Barcelona. 



Catharinea.|] — Krieger describes Catliarima longcmitrata, a well- 

 marked new species, characterised by its long tubular calyptra, short 

 seta, small capsule, &c, growing near Konigstein. Notes on other 

 species and two new varieties are added. 



Dichodontium.^f — H. N. Dixon, having carefully examined a number 

 of specimens, is led to the conclusion that he has an almost unbroken 

 series of ten intergrading forms connecting the two species Dichodontium 

 vellucidum and D. flavescens, however distinct the two extremes may 

 appear to be. 



Anomodon Toccose.** — N. C. Kindberg, referring to the group of 

 sterile species reduced to Anomodon Toccoce. by E. S. Salmon,ff describes 

 for the first time a fertile sample of the species gathered at Kamoon in 

 the Himalayas. 



British Mosses. XX — J- Stirton publishes descriptions of six new 

 species gathered in Scotland, and adds critical notes on other species 

 and varieties. 



W. Ingham §§ gives an account of the mosses and hepatics of Baugh 

 Fell, collected during a tour of two days, and classified according to 

 their rocky habitats. 



C. H. Binstead |||| describes how and where he found several rare 

 species in Yorkshire, Scotland, and Ireland. Some critical remarks are 

 interspersed. 



* Irish Naturalist, xii. (1903) pp. 132-4. t Tom. cit., p. 107. 



X Journ. Bot., xli. (1903) pp. 180-5. 



§ Rev. Bryol., xxx. (1903) pp. 37-39 (figs, in text). 



|| Hedwigia, xlii. (1903) Beibl., pp. 118-20 (1 pi.). 



i Rev. Bryol., xxx. (1903) pp. 39-43. ** Tom. cit., pp. 43, 44. 



ft Journ. Bot., xxxix. (1901) p. 360. 

 XX Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1903, pp. 109-11 G. 

 §§ Naturalist, 1903, pp. 79-82. |1|| Tom. cit., pp. 113-116. 



