596 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



gathered by him on Slieve League. The more interesting species were 

 Orthothecium intrieatwn and Scapania subalpina. 



C. H. Waddell * states that Splachnum vasculosum is not an Irish 

 species, but has been inserted in the flora by mistake for S. sphsericiim. 



Norwegian Mosses. f — I. Hagen publishes a second instalment of 

 his preliminary studies for a Norwegian moss-flora, and treats of 

 the following seven families : Meeseaceae, Georgiaceas, Disceliaceae, 

 Neckeraceae, Pseudoleskeaceae, Tkuidiaceaa, Leskeaceae. A novel 

 feature in the present instalment is that the critical notes, and all 

 matter not exclusively of Norwegian interest, are printed in French. 



Hepaticae of Belgium. J — A. Mansion's flora of the hepaticae of 

 Belgium is advanced a second stage. Left incomplete at the death of 

 the author, this instalment has been filled in and set in order by 

 C. Sladden and E. Marchal. It treats of the genera MarsupeUa (4 

 species), Mesophylla (6), Coleochila (1), Aplozia (9), Liochlsena (1), 

 Lophozia (18) ; and contains descriptions, distribution, critical notes, 

 and keys. 



Muscineae of the Swiss Oberland.§ — P. Culmann publishes a 

 further contribution to the moss-flora of the Bernese Oberland, 

 including eleven hepatics and thirty-seven mosses, with critical notes. 

 He describes and figures the fructification of Molendoa tenuinervis 

 Limpr., found for the first time. 



Italian Mosses. || — A. Bottini gives an enumeration of new or note- 

 worthy Italian mosses collected or determined in 1908, and arranged 

 according to the provinces of Italy, together with canton Ticino and the 

 island of Corsica. Several species and numerous varieties are new to the 

 district treated. G. Zoddalf publishes some lists of Bryophytes of southern 

 Italy — 121 mosses and seventeen hepatics-from the Neapolitan provinces 

 from Naples to Potenza, and sixty-five mosses and nine hepatics from 

 the three Calabrian provinces of Cosenza, Catanzaro and Reggio. He 

 describes a new hybrid Bryum atropurpureum x B. murale, and records 

 the occurrence of Riccia insularis on terra firma near Baia. G. Zodda** 

 also publishes his third annual contribution to the moss-flora of the 

 province of Messina, enumerating thirty-three hepaticas and 200 mosses, 

 with habitats, notes, and remarks. Seven forms new to science are 

 described ; and several species and forms are added to the Sicilian, and 

 some to the Italian flora. 



Austrian Mosses. tt — J. Glowacki gives an account of the genus 

 Eucladhim, of which there are now four species in Europe — E. verti- 

 cillatum Bry. Eur., E. commutatum Glow. (1906), E. styriacum, a new 



* Irish Naturalist, xlviii. (1909) p. 156. 



t K. Norsk. Via. Selsk. Skrifter, 1908, No. 9, 122 pp. 



% Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg., xlv. (1908) pp. 29-83. 



§ Rev. Bryolog., xxxvi. (1909) pp. 91-7 (figs.). 



|| Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital., 1909, pp. 103-18. 



i Malpighia, xxiii. (1909) pp. 23-54. 



•* Ann. di Bot., vii. (1909) pp. 449-87. 



tt Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr., lix. (1909) pp. 222-4. 



