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north or east sides of dry stone walls. It has been gathered in Kerry. 

 Wicklow, and Limerick. It is a southern species extending to the 

 Mediterranean. 



H. W. Lett* records the discovery of Ditrichum tortile at two 

 stations in the north of Ireland, in which country it had not previously 

 been noted. 



Discovery of Pohlia bulbifera in France.+ — Gr. Dismier found on 

 the edge of a pond near Servance (Haute-Saone) the very rare moss 

 Bruchia vogesiaca. Mixed with it were Sportedera palustris, Atrichum 

 tenellum, Fossombronia Dumorti&ri, and fragments of a Pohlia bearing- 

 bulbils and having the stems slender, leaves distant and much spread 

 owing to the size of the bulbils. Upon close investigation it turned out 

 to be Pohlia bulbifera, a north German species not previously known to 

 occur in France. It is distinguished from its allies P. proligera, 

 P. annotina, P. Rothii by the special form of its bulbils, borne two or 

 three together in the axils of the leaves of sterile stems, spherical or 

 ellipsoidal, and crowned by three to five little leaves which are obtuse 

 at apex, incurved, cucullate and connivent. 



Schistidium tarentasiense.} — R. Sebille describes and figures 

 Schistidium tarentasiense, a new species of moss found in the Col de la 

 Vanoise, near Pralognan, in Savoy, at an altitude of 8300 ft. It is 

 distinguished from all other species of Schistidium by its habit, its little 

 red capsules nearly half-way exserted above the short blunt perichaatial 

 leaves, which are entirely destitute of any hyaline apex. 



Sphagnum molle in France.— G. Dismier § publishes a note upon 

 his discovery of Sphagnum molle Sull. in the Bascuie Pyrenees on the 

 northern side of the Franco-Spanish frontier. More than eight years 

 ago he found the same species at Rochesson in the Vosges. He points 

 out its diagnostic characters in the field and under the Microscope. 

 The plant occurs in Finistere and Sarthe, and finds its southern limit in 

 the Pyrenees. 



F. Camus adds a note upon the importance of the above discovery, 

 partly because of the incomplete knowledge of the distribution of the 

 genus Sphagnum in the south-west of France, and partly because of the 

 rarity of S. molle in France. It is the only European species which 

 does not occur in Russia. It is widespread in the German plain, 

 common in Belgium, rare in Britain and France. 



Sphagnum pseudocontortum.|| — J. Roll shows that some plants 

 from the Fichtelgebirge and Vogtland named Sphagnum bavaricum 

 by Warnstorf are synonymous, not with S. subcontortum Roll (as 

 Warnstorf alleged), but with S. pseudoturgidum Roll— an older name 

 than S. bavaricum (a species recently recorded for the British Islands). 

 The name S. subcontortum Roll having been forestalled is now changed 

 to S. pseudocontortum Roll. The author adds a descriptive note to it. 



* Irish Naturalist, xvii. (1908) pp. 204-5. 

 + Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. (1908) pp. 59-60. 

 % Rev. Bryolog., xxxvi. (1909) pp. 14-16 (figs.). 

 § Bull. Soc. Bot. Prance, lv. (1908) pp. 603-5. 

 || Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr., xiv. (1908) pp. 198-9. 



