1 ( .'4 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



George Holmes,* of Stroud, Gloucestershire, is the subject of an 

 obituary note. He died last October, aged 75, and for many years had 

 been a keen and careful moss-student. 



New and Rare European Mosses. f — G. Roth publishes descriptions 

 and drawings of some twenty-three mosses, which are supplementary to 

 those comprised in his book, " Europaische Laubmoose," published five 

 years ago. Three of them are new to science, and the remaining species 

 are rarities about which but little has been known hitherto. 



Hepaticae of Hamburg.^ — J- Schmidt publishes some new con- 

 tributions to the study of the Hamburg flora, and among them gives a 

 list of twenty-one hepaticse with their local distribution and a few 

 critical notes. 



Mosses of the Rhongebirge. — A. Geheeb has published a series of 

 notes, nearly 100 in number, on the moss-flora of the Rhongebirge, his 

 native mountains. In the course of the last thirty years he had made 

 numerous pedestrian tours in the district, and had acquired a great know- 

 ledge of the moss-flora. The notes are of a critical character, and are 

 arranged in systematic order. 



Mosses of Savoy. ]| — A. Guinet gives an account of some bryological 

 excursions in the Alps of Annecy in Savoy — Mt. Veyrier and Roc de 

 Chere. He enumerates 135 mosses, six Sphagnacese, and fifteen hepatics. 



Bryophyta of Sicily. f — L. Micheletti publishes a list of thirty-two 

 mosses and two hepatics collected by himself and two others in Sicily, 

 and adds an account of a moss which he found on the wall of an aqueduct 

 near Messina in 1893, and which was named by Max Fleischer Eucla- 

 dium verticillatum var. Michelettii. 



North American Bryophyta.** — H. E. Greenwood gives a list of 

 thirty-six hepatics collected at Worcester, Mass., where the swampy 

 ground is favourable to the growth of the thalloid species ; but the 

 species proper to damp woodlands are disappearing. 



I. Hagen |f publishes a note on the synonymy of Hijpnum ornitho- 

 podioides Scop. 



A. J. Grout \X publishes a fifth chapter of notes on Vermont bryo- 

 phytes. 



Bolivian Mosses. §§ — T. Herzog publishes a contribution to the moss- 

 flora of Bolivia, the proceeds of his visit to the provinces of Chiquitos 

 and Velasco, to Cerro Amboro and Incacorral. He gives descriptions of 

 three new genera, seventy new species, which he illustrates by means 

 of plates and text-figures. He gathered also 322 species, additions to 



* Journ. of Bot., xlviii. (1910) p. 64. 



t Hedwigia, xlix. (1910) pp. 213-29 (2 pis.). 



\ Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr., xv. (1909) pp. 193-4. 



§ Tom. cit., pp. G8-71, 90-2, 105-8, 135-7, 151-2, 171-3, 186-92. 



|| Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve, xiii. (1909) pp. 52-65. 



i Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital., 1909, pp. 212-16. ** Bryologist, xiii. (1910) pp. 7-9. 



tt Tom. cit., p. 9. U Tom. cit., pp. 13-15. 



§§ Beih. Bot. Centralbl., xxvi. 2te Abt., 1909, pp. 45-102 (3 pis. and figs.). 



