ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 211 



Bryophytes of Persia and Lydia.* — V. Schiffner publishes some 

 contributions to a knowledge of the Bryophytes of Persia and Lydia — 

 regions which are of interest in the consideration of the relationship of 

 the moss-flora of the Mediterranean with that of middle Asia, and that 

 of the Alps with the moss-flora of the Himalayas. The present list is 

 based upon the collections made by J. Bornmiiller during his various 

 journeys in 1902 and 190G, by T. Strauss in Persia, and by J. A. Kuapp 

 in N.W. Persia in 1884. The enumeration contains 101 species, 66 of 

 which are new records for Persia and Lydia ; and 7 species and 4 varie- 

 ties are described for the first time and are figured. There are 17 hepatics 

 included in the above total of 101. Critical notes are appended to the 

 interesting species. 



Muscinese of Spitsbergen. f — J. Hagen gives an account of the 

 mosses and hepatics collected by W. S. Bruce when exploring Prince 

 Charles Foreland, the most westerly island of the Spitsbergen Archi- 

 pelago. Nineteen species of mosses and four of hepatics are enumerated. 

 Dicranum spadkeum is a new record for Spitsbergen ; and Hgpnum 

 uncinatum var. fceneum, is new to science. The habit of some of the 

 species is noteworthy : for instance, the stunted dense tufts of Dicranum 

 elongation and Jungermannia minuta ; again, the absence of sexual 

 organs ; for in the present collection only OncopJwrus Watdenbergii is 

 found with fruit, and only one hepatic, Jungermannia minuta, has 

 developed perianths. Another effect of the severe climate is that the 

 tufts are rarely pure, but generally contain an intimate mixture of a 

 number of species. 



North American Bryophytes.— T. C. Frye | publishes a list of six 

 hepatics, seven mosses, and some lichens collected at altitudes between 

 2000 and 9000 feet on Mount Hood, in Oregon. 



L. H. Handy § announces the discovery of Fissidens Glosteri Aust. 

 in Rhode Island. It has only once previously been found. 



J. M. Holzinger |] echoes the urgent complaints of E. Levier, of 

 Florence, against the baffling practice of North American bryologists in 

 abbreviating the geographical data on their plant labels so much as to 

 render them unintelligible to Europeans— thus L. I. for Long Island. 



A. Lorenz % reports the finding of Georgia genkulata at Waterville, 

 in New Hampshire. It is a northern species, and has only once 

 previously been found in New England. 



Mosses of Panama.**— R. S. Williams gives a preliminary account 

 of a recent collection of mosses made in Panama during March and 

 April 1908. Thirty species were obtained, despite the unfavourable 

 season. Twenty-five of these were of South American type, including 

 Pilot rirhum amazonum Mitt., and Lepidopilum brevipes Mitt., not found 

 since Spruce first obtained them in the Andes. The other five species 

 are Central American, and among them are two new species. 



* Oesterr.Bot Zeitschr. lviii. (1908) pp. 225-31, 304-18. 341-51 (3 pis and fig.). 

 t Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, xxiii. (1908) pp. 326-30. 

 \ Bryologist, xii (1908) pp. 6-7. § Tom. cit., p. 9. 



|| Tom. cit., pp. 9-10. 1 Tom. cit,, p. 10. 



** Torreva, viii. (1908) pp. 294-5. 



