484 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



have a distribution much further eastwards ; for instance, Marchesinia 

 Mackayi, Gololejeunea Rossettiana, Dichiton colyculatum, Fossombronia 

 verrucosa, F. Husnotii, Riccia Henriquesii, R. subinermis, R. macro- 

 carpa, Prionolobus dentatus, P. Turneri. Baumgartner's specimens were 

 collected almost exclusively at Quarnero and the Dalmatian island of 

 Arbe. The present list contains 45 species, 20 of which are additions 

 to the Dalmatian flora since Schiffner's last paper on the subject in 

 1906. Fossombronia Loitlesbergeri is a species new to science, and is 

 figured. 



Dalmatian Hepaticae.* — V. Schiffner publishes under the title 

 Hepaticae Latzelianae, a contribution to a knowledge of the hepaticae 

 of Dalmatia. Until 1906 only 20 species were known from that 

 country ; and Schiffner then added 18 species collected by Baum- 

 gartner, and saw that Dalmatia promised to be one of the most inter- 

 esting areas for hepatics in Europe. That promise has proved true. 

 A remarkable collection of 201 species has been made by A. Latzel in 

 Ragusa, and is described in the present paper. Among them is Dichiton 

 colyculatum, with ripe sporogonia, now for the first time figured and 

 described. Dalmatia, in its hepaticae shows an affinity with North 

 Africa and Tuscany. 



Moss-flora of the Austrian Coast-lands.t — K. Loitlesberger gives 

 a list of 145 species collected in this district, which was first explored 

 sixty years ago by O. Sendtner. Descriptions of two novelties are 

 given — Archidium alternifolium var. pictum and Fhascum arbense. 



Bosnian Mosses. — J. GlowackiJ publishes some notes on Bosnian 

 mosses, including descriptions of two new species — Gtenidium distin- 

 guendum and Eucladium commutatum. 



J. Glowacki § supplies a more complete description of his Gtenidium 

 distinguendum, recorded from Bosnia, Dalmatia, and Triest ; and points 

 out the characters by which it is distinguished from G. molluscum, viz. 

 by its thin sigmoid seta, its almost regular capsule, and the long appen- 

 dages on the cilia of the inner peristome. 



Bryogeographical Note on Polytrichum alpinum in Servia.||— 

 N. Kosanin writes of the occurrence of Polytrichum alpinum upon a 

 peat-bog by a lake situated at the elevation of 5200 feet in the Golia 

 Mountains in south-west Servia. The species has once before 

 been reported from a peat-moss, viz. near Stuhm in North 

 Germany. The author describes the environment of the plant in the 

 Servian locality. The lake contains pure rain-water. The marginal 

 vegetation has advanced to the middle of the lake, leaving but a small 

 amount of free-water surface. Towards the middle is a floating vege- 

 tation, a mossy carpet of Sphagnum subsecundum and S. medium, held 

 together by the felted roots of Gar ex canescens. From the S. subse- 

 cundum arise large deep-green patches of Polytrichum alpinum, which 

 below stand directly in the swamp-water. The plants grow luxuriantly 

 and produce abundant fruit in mid-July. 



* Verb. k.k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, lix. (1909) pp. 29-45 (figs.). 



t Tom. cit., pp. 51-67. 



X Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr., lix. (1909) pp. 51-3. § Tom. cit., pp. 91-2. 



|1 Hedwigia, xlviii. (1909) pp. 205-6. 



