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in I90o) in Hungary, ascertained by a revision of the material preserved 

 under the name of Preissia in his own herbarium and in the Hof- 

 museum at Vienna. The plant has thus been shown to occur on the 

 Hohe Tatra. But, as it possibly grows all along the Carpathian chain, 

 he begs for Hungarian specimens referred to Preissia for examination. 

 And he states what are the macroscopic and microscopic characters by 

 which Bucegia may be distinguished from Preissia. 



Bryological Notes.* — V*. Schiffner continues his bryological notes, 

 and treats of the following subjects : 49. Scapania obscura (Arnell and 

 Jensen) Schiffn., a new member of the flora of middle Europe. 50. 

 Upon the occurrence of Diplophyllum gymnostomophilum in middle 

 Europe. 51. Two new stations for Neesiella camica. 52. Upon some 

 interesting Hepaticse of the French flora. 



Mosses in the Peat of the Baltic Coast.t — C. A. Weber has studied 

 afresh the plants in the peat layer in the coastal escarpment of the 

 Kurland lowlands between Sarkau and Cranz. The mosses in this peat 

 were stated, with some doubt, by C. Miiller in 1868 to be chiefly 

 Hypnum turgescens and Camptothecium nitens. One layer, immediately 

 above the rubble-marl, is now found to consist, for the most part, of 

 Scorpidium scorpioides ; and with it are Hypnum trifarium, H. giganteum, 

 H vemicoswn, H. exannulatum, H. aduncum, and some phanerogams. 

 Another peat layer about 14 inches higher up consists mainly of Hypnum 

 vernicosuni, with which are associated Scorpidium scorpioides, Hypnum 

 trifarium, H. giganteum, Meesea tristicha var. timmioides, and some 

 phanerogams. By means of lists in parallel columns this flora is shown 

 to be very similar to that of the peat of the Rostocker Heide on the 

 Mecklenburg coast published in 1904. The author cannot believe that 

 the expert C. Miiller was mistaken in his determination of Hypnum 

 turgescens. He therefore supposes that the layer from which C. Miiller's 

 sample came has since been destroyed by the sea. 



Frere Gasilien : an Obituary Note.J — An anonymous notice of the 

 late Frere Gasilien, also known as G. Parrique, sketches his services to 

 botany, and states what an active collector of mosses and lichens he 

 was, searching for specimens at several spots in the central plain of 

 France, and providing numerous records which have been published in 

 Heribaud's Muscinees d'Auvergne, and in the works of Cardot, Venturi, 

 Stephani, Nylander, Hue, and others. Gasilien had a special knowledge 

 of the genus Gladonia, and a few months before his death issued a 

 published set of 200 specimens of Parmelia. 



* Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr, lviii. (1908) pp. 377-82. 

 t Engler's Bot. Jahrb., xlii. (1908) pp. 38-48 (fig.). 

 I Bull. Soc. Bot. France, liv. (1907) p. 752. 



