374 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Digby Neck, between the Bay of Fundy and St. Mary's Bay. A. W. 

 Evans and G. E. Nichols* have prepared an enumeration of the 

 Bryophytes of Connecticut, without descriptions, but with keys to 

 the genera and species. There are 247 mosses, 31 Sphagnaceae, and 

 92 hepatics. N. C. Kindberg f publishes some notes on North American 

 Bryinese, including descriptions of nine new species and varieties. 

 Three species are new to North America ; eleven are new to Canada. 



Bryophytes of the Canary Islands.^ — J. Pitard and G. Negri give 

 an account of the moss-flora of the Canaries, with the distribution of 

 each species within the Archipelago, and an indication of the plants 

 found associated with it. They enumerate 120 species, and give a 

 bibliography of previous literature on the subject. 



J. Pitard and L.Corbiere§ supplement the above list with an enume- 

 ration of the hepatics, sixty-three species, treated in a similar fashion. 



N. Bryhn || publishes a list of 160 mosses and twelve hepatics, col- 

 lected by him in Gran Canaria and Tenerifa. Twenty-six of the mosses 

 are new to science or to the Canaries. 



West African Mosses. 1[ — J. Cardot publishes a third article con- 

 taining preliminary diagnoses of mosses from the Belgian Congo and 

 West Africa. Nearly a score of descriptions with critical notes are given. 



Mosses of China, Japan, and New Caledonia.** — I. Theriot publishes 

 a sixth article upon mosses collected by French missionaries in the East, 

 including one species from Japan, seventeen from China, and twenty 

 from New Caledonia. These are all new species or varieties, and are 

 described in Latin. 



Bryophytes of New Caledonia.ft — E. G. Paris reports on a fresh 

 collection of mosses and hepatics received from New Caledonia. A new 

 moss is described, and seven new hepatics are named. In hepatics New 

 Caledonia is found by Stephani to be remarkably rich in endemic species. 



Mosses of the Antarctic Regions.JJ — J. Cardot's detailed report on 

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

 Antarctica has recently appeared in the report of the Swedish South 

 Polar Expedition (1901-3). Owing to shipwreck part of the mosses 

 were lost. From the residue Cardot determined some 200 species — 

 137 for the Magellanic region, 80 for South Georgia, and 23 for the 

 Antarctic region proper. Among them he found 4 genera and 65 

 species new to science, the preliminary descriptions of which have 

 already been published. He has revised all previous work done on the 

 subject, and shows that in the Magellanic region are found 243 endemic 



* State Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey Connecticut, Bull. No. 11 (1908) 203 pp. 



t Rev. Bryolog., xxxvi. (1909) pp. 42-4. 



% Pitard et Proust, Les lies Canaries. Paris : Klincksieck, 1908, pp. 415-45. 



§ Tom. cit., pp. 445-63. 

 I! K. Norske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift, 1908, No. 8, 35 pp. 



^ Rev. Bryolog., xxxvi. (1909) pp. 4G-51. 

 ** Bull. Acad. Internat. Geogr Bot., xviii. (1909) pp. 17-24. 

 +t Rev. Bryolog., xxxvi. (1909) p. 45. 



XX Schwedische Sudpolar Exped., iv. pt. 8 (1908) 298 pp. (11 pis. and 01 figs.). 

 See also Bryologist, xii. (1909) pp. 34-6. 



