742 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



s;ives a list of 235 mosses gathered in the north-east of the island of 

 Fyen. Seven of the species are new to Denmark. L. Corbiere * gives 

 a list of mosses and hepatics gathered in Haute-Savoie by Gasilien. 

 A. Casares Gil j describes and figures the fructification of Somalia lusi- 

 ianica found by him near Barcelona. 



Weisia sterilis sp. n.J — W. E. Nicholson describes this new British 

 moss. It occurs on the chalk downs of the south-eastern counties, and 

 belongs to the subgenus Systegium. 



Thamnium.§ — N. C. Kindberg discusses the history of this genus, 

 and shows that as a generic name Thamnium has precedence of Poro- 

 trichum. 



American Mosses. || — E. G. Britton gives some notes on West Indian 

 mosses which have been found in Florida. R. S. Williams IF describes 

 a new Bracliytliecium from the upper Yukon river and gives a list of 

 15 others not previously recorded from that district. A. J. Grout** 

 describes the development of the peristome of Mnium liormim, and 

 employs the new generic name Burnettia for Homalothecium subca- 

 mllatum. J. M. Holzinger,tf reporting on the moss-flora of the Minnesota 

 River, gives a list of 96 species, of which 44 are new to the State and 

 6 are new to .science. J. Cardot $| describes two new species of Fonti- 

 nalis, gathered in Minnesota. 



West African Mosses. §§ — E. Paris describes 8 new species of mosses 

 from French Guinea in West Africa. 



British Hepatic8e.|||| — G. Stabler has drawn up a localised list of 

 99 hepatics gathered near Balmoral in Aberdeenshire during the 

 summers of 1884 and 1894. S. M. Macvicar ^% gives a localised list of 

 102 hepatics gathered in June 1902 in the Lochcarron District of West 

 Ross-shire. Geocalyx graveolens, a marsupioid species, is an addition to 

 the British Flora. H. W. Lett *** found Scapania intermedia, a new 

 record for Ireland, at an altitude of 1800 ft. on Gal tee More Mountain, 

 S. Tipperary, in July 1902, and subsequently discovered it in a collec- 

 tion made in Co. Antrim fifteen years previously. 



European Hepaticse.fj-f — I. Douin has discovered J unger maaniu 

 Kunzeana in Auvergne, an addition to the French flora. A. Crozals %\% 

 describes Riccia subbifurca Warnst., a new species found at Fontaine- 

 bleau and in Vienne. He also makes some remarks on Lejeunea 



* Mem. Pont. Ac. Kom. Nuov. Lincei, xxi. (1903) 14 pp. See also Rev. Bryol., 

 1903, p. 78. 



t Bull. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat., iii. (1903) pp. 242-44 (figs, in text). 



t Journ. Bot., xli. (1903) pp. 247-8. 



§ Hedwigia, xlii. (1903) Beibl., pp. 169-71. 



|| Bryologist, vi. (1903) pp. 58-61. f Tom. cit., pp. 61-2. 



** Tom. cit., pp. 63-5. 



tt Minnesota Bot. Studies, ser. iii. (1903) pp. 109-27 (with plates). 

 ti Tom. cit., pp. 129-31 (with plates). 

 §§ Rev. Bryol., xxx. (1903) pp. 66-9. 



Illl Trans, and Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, xxii. (1902) pp. 249-54. 

 If Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist., 1903, pp. 175-80. 



*** Journ. Bot., xli. (1903) p. 286. ttt Rev. Bryol., xxx. (1903) p. 61. 



H Tom. cit., pp. 62-5. 



