ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 611 



Rare European Mosses.* - T. Herzog publishes notes on some 

 difficult and new species of European mosses. He discusses critically 

 Rhabdoweisia crenulata (Mitt.) Jameson, and gives descriptions of Gyno- 

 dontium meridionale and Oncophorus sardous from Sardinia, and Pohlia 

 Berninse and Brachythecium Rubelii from Switzerland. 



European Hepatics.f — K. Midler publishes two more parts of bis 

 Lebermoose, and treats of Jamesoniella, 2 sp. ; Anastrophyllum, 3 sp. ; 



Sphe/wlobas, with two subgenera : (1) Eusphenolobus, 7 sp. ; (2) Trito- 

 maria, 4 sp. ; and the large genus Lophozia, with three subgenera : 

 (1) Barbilophozia, 11 sp. ; (2) JJdophozia, 14 sp., unfinished ; (3) Leio- 

 colea. A pedigree table displays the species of Lophozia in one connected 

 group placed according to their affinities. Keys, detailed descriptions, 

 figures, critical notes, synonymy, and distribution are supplied. 



North American Moss Book.J — A. J. Grout has published the fifth 

 and last part of his Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope. Abundantly 

 illustrated with original drawings, or more usually with figures from 

 Sullivant's Icones or from the Bryologia Europrea of Brnch and Schim- 

 per, the book serves to make easy the study of the more common mosses 

 of the north-eastern United States. It is written in non-technical English 

 and provides keys to the genera and species. At the end of the book is 

 a key to sterile specimens, which the author hopes may enable the student 

 to recognize sterile mosses of special interest. 



North American Bryophytes. — A. Lorenz§ gives an account of 

 Lophozia aJpestris Evans as it occurs in New England. Originally called 

 Jungermannia aJpestris by Schleicher, it is found in the mountains of 

 Europe. The points in which it differs from its allies are narrated, and 

 an extract from Nees's Naturgeschichte is given. 



H. E. Greenwood || gives an account of five common species of 

 G&phalozia illustrated by photo-micrographs, which show the more com- 

 mon characteristics of each species. The examples figured are G. bicus- 

 pidata, G. curvifoJia, G. connivens, G. serriflora, G. lunulifolia. 



J. PtollH treats of the typical form and the series of forms with 

 reference to the genus Sphagnum, in reply to an article by Le Eoy 

 Andrews in the January number of the same periodical. Roll maintains 

 that in Sphagnology it is preferable to employ series of forms (Formen- 

 reihen) rather than types of species (Artentypen). 



J. M. Holzinger ** notes some additions to the moss-flora of the 

 United States, and gives a new description of Grimm ia Agassizii. 



E. G. Britton || gives a short biographical notice of Adalbert Geheeb 

 (1*42-190!)), whose moss-herbarium has been added to the Botanical 

 Museum at Berlin. 



Critical Mosses of New England. JJ — G. E. Nichols publishes some 

 notes on Connecticut mosses, by way of supplementing or amending 



* Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr., xvi. (1910) pp. 81-5. 



t Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora, vi. lief. 10-11 (Leipzig, 1910) pp. 577-704 

 (tigs. 2S7-321). % New York : 1910, pp. 319-416 (pis. and figs.). 



§ Bryologist, xiii, (1910) pp. 69-71 . || Torn, cit., pp. 72-6 (6 figs.). 



4 Tom. cit., pp. 77-9. ** Tom. cit., pp. 84-5. 



ft Tom. cit., p. 86. %% Rhodora, xii. (1910) pp. 146-54. 



