74 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



tion a larger work on the same plan, namely synoptical tables diagnosing 

 all known genera of hepatics. 



Mosses of Bavaria. — A. P. Haininerschmid * publishes a second 

 contribution to the moss-flora of Upper Bavaria, from the neighbourhood 

 of Schliersee, Tegernsee, Tolz, Walchensee and Kochelsee, 11)05-7. 

 V. Schiffnerf gives an account of the distribution of the Bryophyta in 

 the Iser-Gebirge, with indications of the rarity or abundance of the 

 various species in the different conditions presented by the mountains. 

 Critical remarks upon some of the species are added. 



Moss-flora of the Hohe Tauern.J — F. Kern gives an enumeration 

 (with localities and altitudes) of the moss-flora of the Hohe Tauern, 

 consisting of 11)5 mosses and thirty hepatics. This rich moss district 

 was first searched by Hornschuch and a few others a hundred years ago ; 

 but now that the German-Austrian Alpine Club have exploited the 

 district and built many Alpine huts on the mountain-groups of the 

 Grossglockner and Grossvenediger, the facilities for the bryologist are 

 enormously increased. Secure of his night's lodging in the vicinity he 

 is able to devote long hours of search to the gullies, rock-walls, water- 

 falls, etc., of this interesting range. 



North American Hepaticse. — A. W. Evans § continues his notes on 

 New England Hepatic*. In his sixth article he writes more especially 

 of additions to the local floras of Maine, New Hampshire, and Con- 

 necticut. The species treated of are Metzgeria pubescens, Marsupella 

 robusta, Nardia cremdiformis, Boplwzia attenuata, L. Baueriana, 

 L. longiflora, Gephalozklla SulUvantii, Bazzania tricrenata, Leucolejeunea 

 chjpeata, B. unciloba, Frullania Sehcyniana, Anthoceros Macounii. 

 Critical notes on these species are given, and some supplementary 

 lists are added at the end of the paper. 



C. C. Plitt || publishes a preliminary list of hepatics found in the 

 vicinity of Baltimore, consisting of thirty-eight species with annotations 

 and distribution-tables. 



A. Lorenzlf publishes a report on the hepatics of Franconia Mountains 

 in New Hampshire, containing a list of seventy-seven species with 

 annotations and distributional notes. 



Hepaticse of Samoa.** — F. Stephani gives an account of the Hepaticae 

 collected by K. Rechiuger in Upolu and S'avaii. He enumerates 79 

 species in all, namely, 73 for Upolu and 17 for Savaii. There are 

 21 new species, some of which are not described. 



New Mosses from Mount Ruwenzori.ft — G. Negri publishes 

 diagnoses of twenty-two new mosses collected on Mount Ruwenzori, 

 mostly at an altitude of 12,600 feet, during the expedition of the Duke 

 of the Abruzzi. Their names are : Sphagnum Alogm-Sabaudkv, 



* Mitteil. Bavrisch. Bot.Gesell., ii. (1908) pp. 103-9 (figs.), 

 t Lotos, Prag, 1907, n.s. i. pp. 145-52, 168-72, 186-90, 201-11. 

 % Fiinfundacktzigster Jahr. Schles. Ges. Breslau, 2te Abt. b. zool. bot. sektion 

 (1908^ pp. 1-12. § Rhodora, x. (1908) pp. 185-93. 



|| Bryologist, xi. (1908) pp. 100-4. 1| Tom. cit., pp. 112-14. 



** Denkschr. Math. Nat. Akad. Wiss. Wien, lxxxi. (1907) pp 288-99. 

 tt Aunali di Bot , vii. (1908) pp. 161-9. 



