208 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Schiffner, V. — Bryologische Fragmente. (Bryologioal notes.) 



[These are : — 18. A hepatic new for Middle Europe (Kantia 

 sphagnicola); 19. Reinark8;on Riccia Hiibeneriana Lindb.; 



20. [Marsupella badensis Schiffn., new for Bohemia; 



21. On the occurrence of Haplomitrium Hookeri N. abE. 

 in the Riesengebirge ; 22. On Scapania obliqua Arnell 

 ;iiid its discovery in Middle Europe.] 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr., lv. (1905) pp. 6-13. 

 „ „ Ein Kapitel aus der Biologie der Lebermoose. (A chapter from 



the biology of Liverworts.) 



Festschr. z. Aschersons 70 Geburtstag. Berlin, 1904, 



pp. 118-28. 

 Smith, A. M. — William Starling Sullivant. 



[A biographical notice, with portrait, of the famous bryologist of the United 

 States; born 1S03, died 1873. Bryologist, viii. (1905) pp. 1-3. 



Stephani, F. — Hepaticarum species novae. X.-XI. (New species of hepatics* 

 Parts X.-XI.) 



[Contains two new genera, Gollaniella and Massalongoa, 

 both from the N.W. Himalaya.) 



Hedwigia, xliv. (1904-5) pp. 14-5,72-5. 

 ,, „ Species hepaticarum. 



[Continuation. Plagiochila, descriptions of 32 species.] 



Bull. Herb. Boiss., v. (1905) pp. 175-90. 



„ „ TJeber die geographische Verbreitung der Lebermoose. (On the 



geographical distribution of the Liverworts.) 



[Remarks on the incapacity of the bepaticse for wide 

 dispersal, and the conclusions to ,be drawn that many 

 genera represented by numerous species of close-creeping 

 plants, with entire or bifid leaves, are indigenous to 

 Europe ; while some twelve genera, which are each re- 

 presented by only one to three species, immigrated into 

 Europe in the remote past, and, being unfitted to survive 

 a changed climate, etc., were almost exterminated.] 



SB. Nat. Gesell. Leipzig, 1903, pp. 27-31. 



Stirling, J. — Notes on a Census of the Flora of the Australian Alps. 

 TContains a list of plants, including 170 mo.-ses.] 



Tram. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, xxii. (1904) pp. 319-95. 



Timm, R.— TJeber Torfmoose. (On sphagna.) 



[General remarks on sphagna and their uses.] 



Verh. Nat. Vereins Hamburg, xi. (1904) p. Ixxvi. 



Torka, V. — Aloina brevirostris (Hook et Grev.) Kindb. 



Zeitschr. Natuno. Heutsch. Ges. Posen, xi. (1904) Heft i. 

 „ „ Neuentdeckte Moose in der Provinz Brandenburg. (Mosses recently 

 discovered in the Province of Brandenburg.) 



[Two species.] Allg. Bot. Zeitschr., 1904, pp. 184-5. 



„ „ Wahrend des Ausfiugs am 14 August, 1904, bei Krumflies und Promno 



in der Nahe von Pudewitz beobachtete Moose und Algen. (Mosses 



and algae observed during the excursion of Aug. 14, 1904, at 



Krummflies and Promno, in the vicinity of Pudewitz.) 



Zeitschr. Naturw. Deutsch. Ges. Posen, xi. (1904) Heft i. 



V,a\ den Broeck, H. — Compte-rendu de la deuxieme herborisation de la section 



de Bryologie, le 21 Mai, 1903, dans la Campine Anversoise. (Account of the 



second field-day of the bryological section, on May 21, 1903, in the Antwerp 



plain. 



[Gives a list of 46 mosses, 18 sphagna, and 20 hepatics.] 



Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg., xli. (1904) pp. 165-70. 

 Warnstorf, C— Die Laubmoose. (The Mosses.) 



Kryptog.fi. Mark Brandenburg, ii. 2 (1904) pp. 241-432 (figs.). 



Watts, W. W. — Notes on some New South "Wales Hepatics. 



[List of 23 species.] Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



xxvii. (1903) pp. 493-4. 



