ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 335 



Paulsen, O. — Lieutenant Olufsen's second Pamir-Expedition. Plants collected in 

 Asia-Media and Persia. II. 



[Contains nine ferns.] Botan. Tidsskr.. xxvi. (1904) pp. 251-74. 



•Prain, D. — The Vegetation of the districts of Hughli-Howrah and the 24- 

 Pergunnahs. 



[Annotated list, containing 31 vascular cryptogams.] 



Becords Bot. Survey of India, iii. (1905) pp. 143-339. 



"Schnarf, K. — Beitrage zur Kentniss des Sporangienwandbaues der Polypodiaceen 

 und der Cyatheaceen und seiner systematischen Bedeutung. (Contributions to 

 a knowledge of the structure of the sporaugial wall in Polypodiaceas and Cyatlieaceae, 

 and its systematic significance.) 



SB. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cxiii. pp. 549-72 (1 pi.). 



: Shibata, K. — Studien fiber die Chemotaxis von Isoetes-Spermatozoiden. (Studies 

 of the chemotaxis of the spermatozoids of Isoetes.) 



Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. xxii. (1904) pp. 478-84. 



TJnderwood, L. M. — The early writers on Ferns and their Collections. IV. Presl, 

 1794-1852; John Smith, 1798-1888 ; Fee, 1789-1874; and Moore, 1821-1887. 

 [Brief biographical sketches of these authorities, with critical estimates of the 

 value of their work.] Torreya, v. (1905) pp. 37-41. 



"Wigglesworth, G. — The papillae in the epidermoidal layer of the Calamitean root. 



Ann. Bot, xviii. (1904) pp. 645-8 (3 figs.). 



Bryop hy t a. 

 (By A. Gepp.) 



53 a gn all, J. E. — Zygodon Forsteri in Worcestershire. 



[Records the discovery of this rare moss near Harvington ; previously it was 

 known only from Essex, Sussex, and Somerset.] 



Journ. Bot., xliii. (1905) pp. 129-30. 



Barth, J. — Die Flora des Hargita-Gebirges und seiner nachsten TJmgebung. (The 

 flora of the Hargita Mountains and their immediate environs.) 

 [Contains lists of 28 hepatics and of 96 mosses.] 



Magyar Bot. Lapok, iv. (1905) pp. 8-18. 



'Bauer, E. — Bryotheca Bohemica. Bemerkungen zur dritten Centurie, ein Beitrag 

 zur Kentniss der Laub- und Lebermoose Bdhmens. (Bohemian moss herbarium. 

 Remarks on the third century, a contribution to a knowledge of the mosses and 

 hepatics of Bohemia.) SB. Deutsch. Nat. Med. Ver. Buhmen " Lotos" 



xxiv. (1904) pp. 134-43. 

 •Best, G. N. — A Lesson in Systematic Bryology. 



[Having found Thuidium hystricosum in the United States, and examined 

 many specimens of T. abietinum, the author shows the former to be simply 

 a form of the latter ; and then proceeds to discuss the meaning of the 

 species in mosses, the uncertainty caused by variability, and the crime of 

 founding a species on a single specimen. The true conception of a species 

 is only to be acquired from a study of many specimens from many localities. 



Bryohgist, viii. (1905) pp. 17-22 (1 pi.). 



'Borgesen, F., & C.Jensen — Utoft Hedeplantage. En floristisk Undersogelse 

 af et Stykke Hede i Vestjylland. (Open heath vegetation. A floristic investiga- 

 tion of a piece of heath in "West Jutland.) 



[An analysis of the plants, including mosses, hepatics, and lichens.] 



Botan. Tidsskr., xxvi. (1904) pp. 177-221. 



sBhothekus.V. F. — Engler und Prantl's Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Lief. 222. 

 Musci. (Engler's and Prantl's The natural families of plants. Part 2li2. Mosses. 

 [Continuation, treating of Polytrichacese, Dawsoniacea3, Erpodiaceae, Hed- 

 wigiaeese, and containing an artiticial key to the Pleurocarpi.] 



Leipzig : Engeluiann, 1905, pp. 673-720 (30 figs.). 



