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Gephalosia, including- the types of the following- species invented by 

 S. 0. Lindberg : G. boreal is, C. subsimplex, C.spinigera ; also C. lac inn - 

 lata (Jack) Spruce, and C. (Prionolobu.s) Perssonii Jens. 



French Mosses. — A. Friren * publishes a fifth account of topological 



excursions in Lorraine, with indications of stations for rare mosses. 



He also publishes f a fourth supplement to the Catalogue of the 

 Muscineae of Lorraine, including five mosses and four hepatics new for 

 the province. 



J. Maheu and A. Gillet J record the finding of fruiting specimens of 

 ThvMium abietinum near Fontainebleau, in a new railway cutting through 

 the limestone. They figure the capsule as erect and straight. 



A. Gillet § publishes a contribution to the moss-flora of the moun- 

 tains of the Tarentaise, giving lists of species for the principal localities. 



Philonotis in France. |] — G. Dismier publishes a monograph of the 

 French species of Philonotis, based upon the papers of L. Loeske, upon 

 a searching examination of the material preserved in several French 

 herbaria, and upon observations in the field in numerous localities of 

 great diversity in France. He gives a resume of the principal works 

 published since 1876 which treat of the genus, a bibliography, an 

 explanation of the special descriptive words employed in the mono- 

 graph, and a key to the species. The species recognised are eight in 

 number, namely, P. rigida, P. marchiea, P. capillaris, P. ccespitosa, 

 P. calcarea, P. seriata, P.fontana, P. tomentella. Each of these is care- 

 fully described, with its varieties, and critical notes are added. 



French Hepatics. If — C. Douin gives a list of twenty-four hepatics 

 and twenty mosses collected by him in the very rich district round 

 Sancy, in Auvergne. Among them is a species new to science, Br yum 

 arvernense, two species and several varieties new to the French flora, and 

 six or seven new for Auvergne. Some critical notes are included in the 

 paper, and the differences between the following pairs of species are 

 drawn up in parallel columns — Nardia obovata and N. subelliptica ; 

 Alicularia minor and A. insecta ; Marsupella Sprucei and M. ustulata. 

 Some further interesting gatherings at La Bastide (Cantal) and at 

 Gavarnie are mentioned at the end of the paper. L. Hillier ** records 

 the discovery of Lejeunea Rosettiana in the Jura near Besancon, and the 

 station and environment in which he found it. Three times previously 

 it had been gathered in France. 



Death of C. Lacouture.ft— A. Friren and T. Husnot announce the 

 death of this old bryologist, who in 1905 published some illustrated 

 synoptical tables of the Hepaticse of France, and in 1908 an analytical 

 and synoptical key (with figures) to the forty odd genera into which the 

 old Lejeunea has been broken up. Further he had prepared for publica- 



* Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Metz (1908) pp. 47- 78. 

 t Tom. cit., pp. 83-90. 



t Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. 1908, pp. 133-8 (figs.). 

 § C.R. Congres Soc. Savantes, 1900, pp. 345-51. 

 || Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xxxvi. (1907) pp. 367-428. 

 f Rev. Bryolog., xxxv. (1908) pp. 131-7. 

 ** Tom. cit., pp. 140-1. tt Rev. Bryolog., xxxv. (1903) p. 145. 



