ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 677 



Peterfi, M. — Beitrage zur Kenntniss der ungarischen kleistocarpen Moose. 

 (Contributions to a knowledge of the Hungarian cleistocarpous mosses). 

 [A list of 13 species mostly from Siebenbiirgen.] 



Math. Naturw. Ber. Vngarn., xix. (Leipzig, 1904) pp. 352-6. 



Koth, G. — Die Europaischen Laubmoose beschrieben und gezeichnet. (The 

 European Mosses described and figured.) 



Band ii. Lief. ix. (Leipzig, 1904) pp. 385-512, pis. xxxi.-xl. 



Schiffner, V. — Bryologische Fragmente. (Bryological Fragments.) 

 [Six notes on Cephalozia and other subjects.] 



Oe<terr. Bot. Zeitschr., liv. (1904) pp. 251-6, 292-4. 



„ „ Revision einiger kritischer Laubmoose aus dem Herbarium 



F. v. Hbhnel. (Revision of some critical mosses from F. v. 

 Hohnel's herbarium.) 



[Four of von Hohnel's novelties from the Sierra Nevada 

 of Spain, described by him in Sitzb. k. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien., 1895, pp. 297-336, are liere criticised with a 

 few others. Grimmia Dornaji is shown to be a 

 synonym of G. anodon ; and Hypnum Alcazabx is 

 H. Vaucheri var. ccelophyllum Mol.] 



Hedivigia, xliii. (1904) pp. 425-7. 



„ „ Ueber Dumortiera. (On Dumortiera.) 



[A reply to W. C. Coker's article in Bot. Gaz., xxxvi. 

 (1903) p. 225, etc., on the presence of air-chambers in 

 the frond of Dumortiera.~\ Tom. tit., pp. 428-9. 



„ „ Ueber die Variabilitat von Nardia crenulata (Sm.) Lindb. nnd 



N. byalina (Lyell) Carr. (On the variability of N. crenulata 

 and N. hyalina.) 



[The former of these is the most variable of all hepatics. 

 Three new varieties of the former and two of the latter 

 are established. Notes on N. scalaris and N. minor are 

 added.] Verli. k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, liv. 



(1904) pp. 410-22. 

 S[heppard], T. — Yorkshire Naturalists at Dent. 



[Contains lists of mosses and hepatics determined by W. Ingham] 



Naturalist, 1904, pp. 299-304. 



Stephani, F. — Species Hepaticarum. 



[Monograph of the genus Plagioclu'la, coutinued ; descriptions of 29 species.] 



Bull. Herb. Boiss., iv. (1904) pp. 973-88. 



Stow, S. C. — Lincolnshire Mosses. 



[A few new records for the county.] Naturalist, 1904, p. 312. 



Torka, V. — Moose des Kreises Zullichau-Schwiebus. (Mosses of the district 

 Zullichau-Schwiebus.) Helios, xxi., 1903. 



Thallophyta. 

 Algae. 



Algae of Central Europe.*— \Y. Migula has reached the Alga? in his 

 Cryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He begins 

 with a few introductory remarks on algge in general, and then proceeds 

 to describe the search for, collection and determination of these plants. 

 Useful hints and instructions are given on all these points, as well as on 

 methods of mounting for microscopic examination of both Cyanophyceaa 

 and Diatomaceaa. Details as to the cultivation of green alga? are also 

 given, and in a manner calculated to interest both the professional and 

 the amateur botanist. Under Schizophycese there is a key to the seven 



* Flora v. Deutsohland, Thome, v. (1904) pp. 1-16 (6 pis.). 

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