338' SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Nicholson, W. E. — Notes on two forms of hybrid Weisia. 



[Careful descriptions of reciprocal hybrids between 

 W. crispa and W. critpata, found ;it Lyme Begi-t, 

 Maidstone, and Lewes.] 



Hev. Bryolog., xxxii. (1905) pp. 19-25 (2 pis.). 



„ „ Tortula montana var. calva. A correction. 



[T. aciphylla var. mucronata, reported from Sion(Valaia) 

 by i he author, proves to be as above.] 



Tom. cit. p. 40. 



Peklo, J.— Einigesueber die Mycorhiza beiden Muscineen. (Facts about Mycorhiza 

 in the Muscinese.) 



Bull. Interned. Acad. Set. Boheme (1903) 22 pp. (1 pi.). 



Pit a in, D. — The Vegetation of the Districts of Hughli-Howrah and the 24- 

 Pergunnahs. 



[Annotated list, containing six mosses and two hepatics.] 



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



Renaild, F., et J. Cardot — Musci exotici novi vel minus cogniti. X. (New or 

 litile known exotic mosses.) Bull. Soc. Bot. Belgique (1904) 110 pp. 



Schiffser, V. — Eine neue europaische Art der Gattung Lophozia. (A new 

 European species of the genus Lophozia.) 



[A detailed description of an hepatic intermediate between L. alpestris and 

 L. Wenzelii; found in Tyrol and Styria; specimens will be issued in the 

 author's Hepat. Europ. exsicc] 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr., lv. (1905) pp. 47-50. 



Smith, A. — Cryptogams in the Grimsby District. 



[Contains a list of 17 mosses and 5 hepatics from Brocklesby.] 



Naturalist, No. 578 (1905) p. 83-4. 



Stephasi, F. — Species hepaticarum. (Species of Hepaticse.) 



[Monograph of Plagiochila continued ; descriptions of 30 South-American 

 species, 10 of which are new.] 



Bull. Herb. Boi$s., ser. 2, v. (1905) pp. 351-00. 



Watts, W. Walter— Some Melbourne Mosses. 



[A list of 30 species, 4 of which are new; also a new hepatic. A few other 

 Victorian and Tasmanian mosses are added.] 



Victorian Naturalist, xxi. (1905) pp. 140-2. 



Wheldon, J. A., & A. Wilson — Additions to the West Lancashire Flora. 

 [List containing 24 mosses and G hepatics.] 



Journ. Bot., xliii. (1905) pp. 94-G. 



Thallophyta. 



Algae. 



(By Mrs. E. S. Gepp.) 



Marine Algse of North and West France.* — J. Chalon has pub- 

 lished a list of the marine algae of the coasts of Belgium, France, and 

 the north of Spain, extending from the mouth of the Escaut to Corunna, 

 and including the Channel Islands. The list is compiled from his own 

 and other collections, as well as from the records in literature, and the 

 number of species given in his book reaches <S44, besides 377 forms and 

 varieties. He also mentions 92 species which are known from our side 

 of the Channel or from the Mediterranean, often from both ; and are 



* Liste d. Algues marines, etc., Anvers (1905) 259 pp. '5 figs, m text). 



