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vided. The rest of the paper treats of some twenty-four Indian 

 mosses, collected in the Western Ghats by Sedgwick and Kir- 

 tikar and at Binsar in the Almora district by Miss Shepheard. 

 Among these are the foUowing new species: Canipylopiis {Tricho- 

 phylli) Sedgwickn Card, and Dixon, Fissidens {Pachyßssiäens) Sedg- 

 wickii ßroth. and Dixon, Calyniperes {Hyophyllina) tortelloides Broth. 

 and Dixon, Hyn^enostylhnn Shepheardae Card, and Dixon, H. aniio- 

 tiniim Mitten in Sched., HyophUa siibßaccida Broth. and Dixon. The 

 novelties are ügured.PterohryiiJH kaiiarense Dixon previously descri- 

 bed proves to be identical with P. Walkeri Broth. A. Gepp. 



Dixon, H. N., Note on Fissidens tequendamensis Mitt. (Journ. 

 Bot. XLVIII. p. 280-281. Nov. 1910.) 



The author Supplements some remarks which he made about 

 this species (tom. cit. p. 147) when describing the new Irish species, 

 F. exsid. At his request E. G. Britton examined the type of F. 

 tequendaniensis in Mitten's herbarium and found it to be identical 

 with F. Lindigii Hampe, both plants having come from the same 

 type locality, the Falls of Tequendama in New Granada. Both 

 plants have the same cristate internal lamellae at the base of the 

 peristome teeth. Such variations of structure as occur are of less 

 than varietal importance. Hampe's name is seven years older than 

 that of Mitten. Included in the Synonymy is Schistophylluni Orvii 

 Lindb., an allen found near Dublin 20 years ago. A. Gepp. 



Dixon, H. N., Teneriffe Mosses. (Journ. Bot. IL. p. 1—8. 1 tab. 

 January 1911.) 



The author gives an account of a collection of Mosses gathered 

 by Dr. J. H. Salter, mostly in the very dry neighbourhood of 

 Guimar on the southern side of Teneriffe, between Dec. 1908 

 and Febr. 1910. About 53 species and varieties are recorded; 8 of 

 these were previouslj'' unrecorded for the Canary Islands, and 7 

 of them were not known in the Atlantic Islands at all. The 3 

 following are new to science: Bryuni validicostatuni Card, and Dixon, 

 Bvachythecium Salteri Card, and Dixon, Homalothecium harbelloides 

 Card, and Dixon. A. Gepp. 



Fry, S. E. and Agnes, The Liverworts British and Fo- 

 reign. (VIII, 74 pp. 49 flgs. London, Witherby & Co., 326 High 

 Holborn, W. C. 1911.) 



The book is intended for beginners. The authors first describe 

 two typical forms, the thalloid Pellia epiphylla and the foliose 

 Diplophyüum albicans, and then treat separately the following four 

 groups, Riccieae, Monocleae, Anthocevoteae , Jungermannieae, indica- 

 ting the main points of their morphology and anatomy. They discuss 

 the various modes of reproduction which prevail among the Hepa 

 ticae, giving two tables in which are displayed a number ot species 

 of Jimgerrnannieae which are characterised by the possession of 

 unicellular and of multicellular gemmae respectively. The form of 

 these gemmae and their place of production are indicated. The 

 concluding chapters are concerned with Odour, Water Supply, Al- 

 ternation of Generations, Classification, Distribution. A. Gepp. 



