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Bryophytes of Co. Donegal.* — H. W. Lett gives an account of the 

 mosses collected at Rosapenna and on Tory Island on the northern coast 

 of Co. Donegal during the Conference week of the Field Clubs of Ireland. 

 At Rosapenna were gathered 26 mosses and 8 hepatics never previously 

 recorded for West Donegal. As to Tory Island, a wind-swept spot, a 

 list of all the species is given, namely, 51 mosses and 24 hepaticas. 



European Hepaticae.j — K. Miiller publishes the twelfth part of his 

 monograph of the European hepaticaein Rabenhorst's Kryptoganien-flora. 

 He completes the genus Lophozia, which contains thirty-five species and 

 is divided into three sub-genera : Barbilophozia, with 1 1 species ; Dilo- 

 phozia (new), with 17 ; Leiocolea (new), with 7. He treats of five 

 other genera of the tribe Epigonianthese, namely : GymnocoJea Dumort 

 (2 species) ; Dichiton Mont. (1) ; Anastrepta Lindb. (1) ; Acrobolbus 

 Xees (1) ; Plagiocliila (2, unfinished). 



Bryophytes of Dunkerque.J — Bouly de Lesdain gives an account 

 of the bryophytes of Dunkerque, which amount to 134 mosses, with 

 47 varieties and forms and 20 hepatics with two varieties. It is the 

 flora of the sand-dunes which is specially interesting. 



Moss-flora of the Haute-Saone. § — A. Coppey continues his phyto- 

 geographic studies of the mosses of the Haute-Saone. He first discusses 

 rock-formations and their relationship to differeut types of the mosses. 

 Inter alia, he finds that the very same kind of rock, which in its dry 

 undecomposed part bears a strictly silicicolous vegetation, produces a no 

 less strictly calcicolous (by repute) flora, where its decomposition is rapid 

 under the influence of a sufficient humidity. He then begins the floristic 

 part of his work, and provides a systematic catalogue of all the Muscinere 

 of the Haute-Saone. 



Prussian Mosses. II — L. Dietzow gives an additional account of the 

 bryophytes of Griinhagen in West Prussia, bringing the total of species 

 up to 274. The critical specimens were submitted to C. Warnstorf for 

 determination. 



Swiss Mosses. If — -P. Culmann publishes a contribution to the moss- 

 flora of Switzerland, in which he describes two new varieties, and records 

 new stations for a number of species — one from Grisons, three from the 

 Jura, and twenty-three hepatics and thirty-seven mosses from the 

 Bernese Oberland. Critical notes are appended to some of the species. 

 Moerkia Flotoiciana was gathered at so great an altitude as 6000 ft., 

 near Zweisimmen ; and yet it is perfectly distinct from M. Jihjthii. 

 which grows on the Griinsel and descends to 5000 ft. Nor does 

 Culmann believe that there are any intermediates which connect the two 

 species. 



* Irish Naturalist, six. (1910) pp. 192-4. 



t Leipzig: Rummer, (1910) vi. lief. 12, pp. 705-68 (figs. 322-10). 

 % Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 1910, pp. 277-320. 

 § Rev. Bryolog., xxxvii. (1910) pp. 99-105. 



|| 32. Ber. YVestpreuss. Bot. Zool. Vereiu. Dauzig, 1910, pp. 91-8. 

 i Rev. Bryolog., xxxvii. (1910) pp. 93-9. 



