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Recently materia] obtained from the locus classicus, where ii is abundant 

 :it the margin of streams, enabled V. F. Brotherus to demonstrate thai 

 it is ;i good species, and is not to be referred to B. gemmiparum, its 

 nearest ally. From the latter it differs in its more distani leaves, its 

 laxer reticulation, and by the vanishing of the nerve below the apex of 

 the leaf. 



Hylocomiopsis.* — ,1. Cardot describes the characteristic structure of 

 Hylocomiopsis ovicarpa, a Japanese species founded by Bescherelle in 

 1893, and placed in Anomodon. Cardot placed it in Lescursea; and 

 Brotherus gave it a special subgenus. Trichocaulon. But, inasmuch as it 

 differs from Lescursea in the marked dimorphism of its leaves, its 

 branched paraphyllia, and its endostome with narrow, but not filiform 

 cilia, and also the previous employment of Trichocaulon as a genus of 

 Asclepiadeae, Cardot proposes for the moss the name of Hylocomiopsis. 



Hypnum iusitanicum in Fiiiistere.f — L. Corbiere gives a descrip- 

 tion of a puzzling moss which he gathered in a remote spot on the coast 

 of Finistere, and which with difficulty he ascertained to be Hypnum 

 Iusitanicum Schimp. It belongs to the subgenus Limnobium, and it 

 forms an addition to the French flora. 



Filicicolous Hypopterygium.J — J. Amann discusses a sterile Hypo- 

 pterygium found growing on the trunk of a tree-fern, Dicksonia antarctica, 

 in the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris in April 1903, and also on 

 I>. Sellowiana in the Jardin des Plantes. Upon seeing a herbarium 

 specimen of Hypopt&rygiun BalantiiCM-., he soon found it to be identical 

 with the Paris plants. H. Balantii was found in the fruiting state by 

 H. Graef on an old trunk of Balantium antarcticum in the botanic 

 garden at Charlottenburg, near Berlin. It belongs to the subgenus 

 Tamariscina Kindb. 



Orthotrichum tomentosum.§ — P. Culmann discusses an Orthotrichum 

 collected on the Bundstock in the Bernese Oberland at an altitude of 

 about 8000 ft., which he had referred to 0. sardagnanum until he came 

 upon Glowacki's description of O. tomentosum, which differs only in 

 having longer peristome teeth. 0. tomentosum is only an extreme or 

 high mountain form of O.juranum, which possesses the same radical 

 tomentum, the same velvety calyptra. the same capsular form (16 stria' I, 

 the same split or even completely divided peristome-teeth, etc. And 

 O.juranam may be but a synonym of O. abbreviatum, any difference of 

 length of operculum being relatively unimportant. 



Bryophytes of Morocco.|] — L. Corbiere publishes a second paper on 

 the bryological collections made by Lieut. Mouret in Morocco at Fez 



* Kev. Bryolog., xl. (1913) pp. 22-3. 

 t Rev. Brvolog., xl. (1913) pp. 58-9. 

 t Rev. Bryolog., xl. (1913) p. 24. 

 § Rev. Bryolog., xl. (1913) pp. 49-51. 

 Rev. Brvolog., xl (1913) pp. 51-7. 



