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districts, by himself, Col. Kirtikar, R. M. Maxwell, and others, and 

 determined by H. N. Dixon. Two new species are included, but not 

 described. 



Mosses of Madagascar.* — F. Kenauld has published an illustrated 

 quarto volume which contains an essay on the genus Leucoloma and a 

 Supplement to the Prodromus of the bryological flora of Madagascar 

 and the Mascarene and Comoro Islands. In the first part, which 

 occupies fifty pages, the anatomy of stem and leaf in Leucoloma is 

 considered, and upon the characters afforded by leaf -tissue and nerve- 

 structure the genus is split into three genera, Dicranoloma, Leucoloma, 

 Dicnemoloma, and the two former axe divided into sub-genera and 

 sections. The second part (139 pp.) of the work is a supplement to the 

 Prodromus which appeared in 1898, and includes a description of the 

 163 plates which were published without text in the Atlas of Mosses of 

 Madagascar. 



Antarctic Mosses.f — J. Cardot gives an account of the mosses 

 brought back by Shackleton's ' Nimrod ' expedition from Victoria Land 

 in the Antarctic region. The number of species is four, and three of 

 these had already been found by Scott's ' Discovery ' expedition in the 

 same region, Sarconeurum glaciate, Bryum argenteum, and B. antarcticum ; 

 but the fourth constitutes a new record. It is a dwarfed form of 

 Dicramlla Hooker I = Angstrozmia Hooker I C. Mull. = Anisothecium 

 Jamesoni Mitt, (in part), which was previously known from the 

 Magellan region, South Georgia, Kerguelen and Heard Island. 



Otto Sendtner.j — H. Ross gives an account of Otto Sendtner 

 (born 1813, died 1859) of Munich. He published lists of Silesian 

 mosses in 1840 and 1841, studied the mosses of Carniolia, Carinthia, 

 the Julian Alps and Tyrol, and published a moss-flora of Upper Bavaria 

 in 1846 and 1849. In 1847 he collected with great zeal in Bosnia, 

 Dalmatia and the coast-lands of Austria, and distributed numbered sets 

 of the plants, and published papers on this subject and on various other 

 botanical matters. He also became Professor of Botany at Munich, 

 where his plants are preserved. A bibliography is appended, and a 

 silhouette portrait. 



P. J. F. Gravet.§ — T. Husnot gives a short obituary notice of 

 P. J. F. Gravet (born 1827, died 1907), a Belgian bryologist, author of 

 a list of the pleurocarpous mosses of Belgium (1875) and of various 

 notes in the Revue Bryologique, and (with Delogne) of published sets 

 of mosses, hepatics, and Sphagnaceas. 



F. Renauld.|| — I. Theriot publishes an obituary notice of Ferdinand 

 Renauld (born 1837, died 1910), for thirty years an officer in the 

 French Army, and subsequently for five years Commandant of the 

 palace at Monaco. He published his first botanical paper in 1873, and 

 his fifty-seventh in 1909. Beginning with the moss-floras of the 



* Monaco (1909) 189 pp. (24 pis.). See also Rev. Bryolog., xxxvii. (1910) p. 89. 



t Shackleton, Brit. Antarct. Exped., I. iv. (1910) pp. 77-9. 



% Ber. Baver. Bot. Gesell. xii. U910) pp. 73-89 (1 pi.). 



§ Rev. Bryolog., xxxvii. (1910) 'pp. 91-2. ',| Tom. cit., pp. 106-14. 



