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He enumerates twenty -six species and several varieties of Sphagnum,. 

 and eighty-two species and varieties of mosses. 



Muscinese of the Julian Alps.* — J. Glowacki publishes a complete 

 list of the Muscinea? of the Julian Alps, in which he has gathered 

 together all kuown records, with their exact localities and altitudes. The 

 totals are 110 species of kepaticae and 459 mosses, with numerous 

 varieties. Two new mosses are described. He has himself made large 

 and frequent collections in the district ; and other noted workers have 

 been Sendtner, Breidler, Safer, and, more recently, Loitlesberger. 



Italian Muscinese.t — S. Sommier, in his flora of the Island of 

 Pianosa in the Tyrrhene Sea, gives a list of thirty-six mosses and sixteen 

 hepatics determined by A. Bottini and C. Massalongo respectively. 

 The hepaticse are chiefly of a thalloid character, and among them is 

 PetalophyJlum. 



French Mosses. — C. Meylan % gives an account of Weisia rutilam 

 var. Hillieri and Fissidens Monguilloni, the former a new variety, and 

 the latter a very little known species collected near Besancon by Hillier. 

 A careful description of Fissidens Monguilloni by its author and hitherto 

 unpublished is supplied. It had previously been gathered in La Sarthe. 



I. Theriot§ publishes diagnoses of a new species and five new 

 varieties of mosses from various parts of France. 



T. Husnot || records the occurrence at Jurques (Calvados) of Bryum 

 Mildeanum Jur. on siliceous ground, and of Ceratodon purpureus var. 

 longifolius, a new variety. 



Mosses of the Pyrenees. IF — G. Dismier gives the results of a few 

 days moss-collecting in the Basque Pyrenees between the following 

 places : — St. Etienne de Baigorry, Banca, and Les Aldudes, close to the 

 Spanish frontier, and about thirty miles from the Bay of Biscay. He 

 enumerates 127 mosses, 47 hepatics, and 8 Sphagnacea? ; and supplies 

 annotations about the more interesting species, their rarity, dis- 

 tribution, etc. 



MuscineEe of Madeira.** — A. Luisier gives a listof eighty-three mosses 

 and seventeen hepatics of Madeira, collected mostly by C. A. Menezes 

 in 1907, and the rest at earlier dates by Johnson, Kny, and Moniz. 

 The points of interests are as follows : — 1. The description of three 

 varieties new to science. 2. Records of three genera and eight species 

 or varieties previously unknown in the Atlantic islands, also of five other 

 species not previously known to occur in Madeira. The more critical 

 mosses were submitted to J. Cardot for revision. 



North American Bryophyta. — E. G. Britton ft publishes a plea for 

 more and better local work in the mosses. It is lack of careful observa- 

 tion that has led to the long synonymy of such common mosses as 

 Ceratodon purpureus, Bit rich um tortile, etc. It must be remembered 



* Abh. k.k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, v. 2 (1910) 48 pp. 

 t Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., xvii. (1910) pp. 140-7. 

 % Rev. Bryolog., xxxvii. (1910) pp. 42-4. § Tom. cit., pp. 46-8. 

 || Tom. cit., pp. 25-6. U Tom. cit., pp. 16-23. 



Broteria, viii. Bot. (1909) pp. 31-45. ft Bryologist, xiii. (1910) pp. 30-2. 



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