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S. ruwmzorense, Dkranum petropkylum, Gampylopus sericeus, C. Gagnii, 

 Fissidens mobukensis, Leptodontium Gambaragam, Tortula Gavallii, 

 AruBctangium Sella, A. fuscum, A. flexuosum, Amphidium Aloysii- 

 Sabaudice, Zygodon Roccatii, Z. hirsvtum, Macromitrium fragile, 

 Brae Inj men lam Gagnii, Pohlia Aloysii-.Sabaudw, Bryum Sella, Brevtelia 

 auronitens, Gatharineea Cavallii, Polytrichutn cupreum, Brachythecium 

 Roccatii. 



Antarctic Messes.* — J. Cardot publishes bis complete monograph 

 of the bryological flora of the Magellan region, South Georgia and the 

 Antarctic region, it being one of the reports of the Swedish South Polar 

 Expedition (1901-3). The subjects treated are the history of the 

 subject from the time of Commerson (1767) up to our own days ; the 

 geography of the Magellan region ; a list of 243 endemic species ; the 

 relationship and origin of this flora : distributional comparisons. The 

 author infers that there has been a common origin for the Magellan 

 region and New Zealand. He then gives systematic lists of all the 

 mosses, and describes and figures several new ones, including among 

 them two new genera Verrucidens and Exodokidium. 



Life of Richard Spruce.f — A. R. Wallace has edited for publication 

 the manuscript journals, letters, and notes of the late Richard Spruce 

 (born 1817, died 1893), giving an account of the long travels ou the 

 Amazon and Andes (1849-G4),"during which Spruce reaped, inter alii/, 

 his rich harvest of mosses and hepatics, and began to make the brilliant 

 observations of the latter group which many years later (1885) he gave 

 to the public in his monumental work, Hepaticas Arnazomcaj et Andime. 

 Wallace has compiled a biography of Spruce's life before his departure for 

 South America and after his return. 



Bornmuller, J.— Flora der Elbursgebirge Nord-Persiens. (Flora of Mount 

 Elburz, in North Persia.) 



[Contains a list of seven hepatics and sixty-four mosses.] 



Bull. Herb. Boiss., viii. (1908) pp. 832-6, 915-17. 



Kindberg, N. C— Bryogeografiska uppgifter. (Notes on the geographical dis- 

 tribution of mosses.) 



[Treats of Scandinavian species.] Bot. Notiser Lund. 1908, pp. 09-70. 



Steinbrinck, C. — Ueber den Kohasionsmechanismus der Roll- und Faltblatter 

 von Polytrichum commune und einigen Diinengrasern. (On the cohesion theory 

 in relation to the mechanism which controls the rolling up and folding of the 

 leaves of Polytrichum commune and some grasses of the dunes.) 



Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesell., xxvia. (1908) pp. 399-412. 



Stephani, F. — Species hepaticarum. 



[Continuation of monograph of Mastigobryum, containing descriptions ot 

 178 species, several of which are new to science.] „„,..„„ 



Bull. Herb. Boiss., viii. (1908) pp. 837-66, 941-72. 



* Flore bryologique des terres Magellan. Stockholm (1908) 298 pp. (11 pis. and 

 figs.). See also Rev. Bryol., xxxv. (1908) p. 142. 



t Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes. Macmillan, 190«, & ^ois. 



(illustrated). 



