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collected at the stations and at the dates recorded for this latter species. 

 They correspond exactly with Venturi's description, which, however, is 

 rather vague about the areolation. However, an examination of the type 

 in Venturi's herbarium at Trient finally settled the question. D. robusta 

 is henceforth but a synonym of Ghjphomitrium polgphgllum. 



Pohlia carnea in Transylvania.* — I. Gyorffy gives a detailed account 

 of the morphology of Pohlia carnea Lindb. fil., treating of its stem, 

 leaves, seta, sporogonium, etc., illustrating the same with figures. He 

 finds that it differs in some points from previous descriptions. 



" Neolithic 1 ' Moss Remains.f — H. N. Dixon gives an account of some 

 "neolithic " moss remains from under the 25-foot raised beach near Fort 

 William, washed out of sandy peat. Thirty-six species were identified, 

 the fragments bein^ mostly in a good state of preservation. This collec- 

 tion differs from all, or nearly all, previous collections in being distinctly 

 not a paludal or a peat-moss association. Very few of the constituent 

 species could be considered to be in any way paludal. A few are inhabit- 

 ants of wet rocks. Others grow on dry boulders. Several belong to the 

 woodlands. In all probability these plants originally were growing near 

 a large stream which tumbled over boulders and flowed at times between 

 wet, rocky cliffs down a wooded mountain side or valley. In such a situa- 

 tion in Scotland at the present time an almost precisely similar moss- 

 association is found. The seeds found in the same deposit indicate a 

 meadow origin, and are badly preserved. The climate of the period must 

 have been mild and equable, as is indicated by the presence of Dicranum 

 Scottianum. Thuidium delicatalum is interesting as a moss, which, 

 until 1874, was regarded as common in North America and absent in 

 Europe, but is now known to occur all over Europe, and in England is 

 found to be western and montane. T. Phdiberti is a rare moss, growing 

 on wet mountain rocks ; first found in 189:-), it is now known from 

 several places in Europe and North America. 



Scottish Hepaticse.J — S. M. Macvicar publishes a list of additions 

 for 1908-9 to the census of Scottish hepaticse. There are 89 additional 

 records distributed under 25 botanical counties. Lophozia Jongidens is 

 a new record for west Scotland. 



Moss-flora of Todmorden, Lanes. § — A. Stansfield gives an enumera- 

 tion of the mosses found at Todmorden amounting to 104 species. 

 Some — for instance, all five species of Orthotrkhum, which were formerly 

 met with in the district — have disappeared. The hepatica? amount 

 to 46. 



New Lancashire Mosses. j| — J. A. Wheldon calls attention to some 

 new Lancashire cryptogams. Sphagnum parr/folium Warnst., from 

 900 ft. altitude near Rochdale, is a variety of 8. intermedium. Drepano- 



* Magyar Bot. Lapok., ix. (1910) pp. 120-6 (pi.). 



t Ann. Scottish Nat. Hist., No. 74 (1910) pp. 103-11. 



X Tom. cit., pp. 114-17. 



§ Lancashire Nat., ii., pp. 204, 249-52, 285-88, 311-13, 347-50, 355-57. 



|| Op. cit., iii. (1910) pp. 81-2. 



