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Austrian Mosses. — J. Cllowacki * publishes a contribution to our 

 knowledge of the moss-flora of Carinthla, and describes the new species 

 Thuidium hygrophilum which grows in the spray of the Gossnitz water- 

 fall near Heiligenblut with Hypnum procerrimum and Didymodon 

 giganteus at an elevation of 4500 ft. It resembles T. abietinum in 

 habit. The other novelties are two varieties and a form. Many species 

 which prefer silex were found on the carboniferous slates and limestone 

 of the Gailthal. 



The same author f gives an account of the moss-flora of tlie 

 Backergebirge, the most easterly spur of the Southern Alps. This 

 range is composed of granite covered with crystalline rocks and cre- 

 taceous and tertiary strata. After treating of the distribution of the 

 mosses, the author enumerates the rarer species with their attitudes. 

 The total flora is 384 mosses and 109 hepatics. 



F. Matouschek $ continues his studies of Bohemian mosses. Tn 

 revising the collections in the Prag Landes-museum, he has found moss 

 records for east, west, south and middle Bohemia. The nomenclature 

 employed by the old botanist forms an interesting synonymy. 



J. Rompel§ publishes a list of mosses collected in Vorarlberg and 

 Tyrol, supplemented by others from Valais and the lower Rhone Valley, 

 with careful annotations as to altitude. 



Hungarian Mosses. — V. Schiffner|] gives an enumeration ofiforty- 

 two hepaticae of Hungary and Transylvania sent to him by I. Gyorffy. 



I. Gyorffyf gives an account of " Polykarpophorie," i.e., the produc- 

 tion of several sporogonia from the archegonia of one and the same 

 perichretium, as occurring in eleven different species of mosses. 



He also** gives an enumeration of twenty-three rare mosses gathered 

 by himself and others in Transylvania, North Hungary, and elsewhere. 



J. Szurak tt publishes some additions to the moss-flora of North 

 Hungary. He treats of the physiological and ecological condition of 

 the Bryophytes, which he classifies according to Filarszky's scheme, 

 viz. into: 1. Autophyta with independent nutrition, (a) Hydrophyta ; 

 (b) Euphyta, including Xerophyta and Mesophyta ; (c) Aerophyta or 

 Epiphyta. 2. Allophyta, including the saprophytes and parasites. The 

 author enumerates 92 mosses and 23 hepatics, and 15 species recorded 

 by other authors. He gives some figures of structure. 



Hepatics of Dalmatia and Istria.j| — V. Schiffner gives an account 

 of some hepatics collected by J. Baumgartner in Dalmatia and Istria, 

 which, he says, make it clear that the hepatics of Dalmatia show an 

 unmistakable affinity with those of North Africa and of the environs 

 of Florence, and that some species regarded as typically west European 



* Jahrb. Natur. Landesmuseum Kamthen, xxviii. (1908) pp. 165-86. 



t Jahresb. k.k. Staatsgymn. Marburg, 1908, pp. 1-30. 



j Mitt. Ver. Natur. Reicbenb. 1908, pp. 13-48. 



§ 17 Jabresb. Gymnas. Stella Matutina Feldkircb, 1908, pp. 65-74. 



|| Magyar Bot. Lapok, viii. (1909) pp. 24-33. 



t Toni.-cit., pp. 40-7. ** Torn, cit., pp. 51-3. 



ft Noven. Kozlem. vii. (1908) pp. 87-115 (figs.). 



+ t Hedwigia, xlviii. (1908 and 1909) pp. 191-202 (figs.). 



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