332 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



was mainly directed to the mosses and hepatics of the intermediate or 

 forest zone ; and his gatherings have resulted in the addition of more than 

 a quarter to the previously recorded totals of species. He now gives 

 them as 282 mosses, 5 sphagna, 82 hepatics. He adds a freely annotated 

 list of the novelties, and another of the more interesting species which 

 had heen recorded previously, hut usually without any clue to the locality 

 or altitude at which they had heen found. 



The same writer * calls attention to a hepatic new to France and to 

 two rare mosses, also French, which have lately been determined by 

 him. 



W. Monkemeyer f publishes a list of the rarer mosses — 83 in num- 

 ber — gathered by A. Berger in the vicinity of La Mortola, near Venti- 

 miclia in the Eiviera. It appears to be the first published list for the 

 district. 



W. Arnell * describes and figures three new hepatics — Kantia 

 sphagnicola, K. suecica, and K. suhmersa — which have been discovered in 

 Sweden, and points out how they may be distinguished from the well- 

 known K. trichomani8. 



J. Douin § publishes notes on seven hepatics that occur in the Mont- 

 Dore district of France. 



B. Kaalaas |] describes two new hepatics of the genus Cephalozia 

 gathered in Norway. 



J. Douin % notes the occurrence of the minute and fugacious moss 

 Ephemerum tenerum C. Muell. in the vicinity of Paris, and expresses his 

 belief that other members of the genus are likely to be found there. 

 He calls attention to the ease with which dehiscence of the capsule 

 takes place when the fresh ripe fruit is subjected to pressure, and alludes 

 to the doubts which have been felt about the dehiscence of Sysfegium 

 crispum by authors who have not examined the plant in the fresh state. 



General Paris ** continues his lists of mosses and hepatics from 

 various districts of Madagascar, and describes eight new species. 



K. Mueller ft records six species of hepatics of the genus Scapania 

 gathered in Sikkim and other parts of India. Three of the species and 

 one variety are new. 



A. W. Evans %% has monographed the Lejeuneee of the United States 

 and Canada, and recorded 23 of the species of this subtribe of hepatics 

 as native, 4 being new species and 6 new records for the continent. He 

 describes the confusion caused by the carelessness of previous investi- 

 gators and the difficulties he has had in unravelling it. Each species 

 is fully discussed, and 15 are illustrated. 



E. S. Williams §§ describes and figures Eurliynclnum Taylorse sp. nov. 

 frorn Idaho and Brachytliecium Pringlei sp. nov. from Arizona. 



E. Bescherelle |||| gives a list of 42 mosses and 25 hepatics gathered in 

 Mexico by Maury twelve years ago, and describes four of the former as 

 new species. 



* Tom. cit., p. 26. + Hedwigia, xli. (1902) Beibl., pp. 11-4. 



X Rev. Bryol., xxix. (1902) pp. 2G-32 (figs, in text). § Tom. cit., pp. 32-4. 



|| Tom. cit.. pp. 8-10. t Tom. cit., pp. 55, 56. *• Tom. cit., pp. 1-8. 

 tt Beiheft. Botan. Centralbl., xi. (1902) pp. 542-5. 

 It Mem. Torrey Bot. Club, viii. (1902) pp. 113-83 (7 pis.), 

 §i) Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxix. (1902) pp. 66-8 (2 pis.). 

 Ill Journ. de Uotan., xv. (1901) pp. 380-S. 



