f)12 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



in the Scottish flora. Fossombronia cristata was also growing plentifully 

 in most of the reservoirs. Photographs of the living plants are given. 



F. Rhodes* records the occurrence of Riccisllafluitans in abundance 

 in some dykes at Mablethorpe last summer. This hepatic has apparently 

 been recorded for Lincolnshire only once previously. 



Sphagnum bavaricum in Yorkshire.! — W. Bellerby records the 

 occurrence of Sphaijuu.m bavaricum in England. It was detected by 

 C. Warnstorf among some interesting species of Sphagnum collected in 

 bogs near Ellerbeck by W. Bellerby. Warnstorf had recently published 

 a description of S. bavaricum in Hedwigia, xlvii (1907) p. 84. An 

 English translation from the German of this description is supplied by 

 Bellerby. The plant is allied to S. sub secundum. 



Yorkshire Mosses. — C. A. Cheetham % gives a list of twelve mosses 

 from Cautley, in West Yorkshire, which have not been recorded pre- 

 viously for the district. Among them is Dicranella secunda Lindb. 



The same author § publishes some field notes upon the more interest- 

 ing mosses observed during an excursion of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union. He describes the luxuriance of the species observed on the 

 limestone in Ling Gill ; the very restricted flora on the gritstone scars of 

 Pennyghent ; the rarities in Douk Grill. A list of eight species new to 

 the district is added. 



C. A. Cheetham || gives a list of seven mosses not previously recorded 

 for Inglebro', in West Yorks, and confirms the records of eight which 

 were previously doubtful. 



Muscinese of Flintshire. IF — A. A. Dalman gives an enumeration of 

 ten hepaticse and seventy mosses of Flintshire, with their respective 

 stations, and a few notes upon peculiarities of structure, etc. 



New and Rare Scottish Mosses.** — J. Stirton gives an account of 

 some mosses collected mostly at or near Arisaig, in the west of Scotland. 

 Some of these are interesting because of their rarity. Eleven species and 

 one variety are described as new to science. The descriptions and notes 

 have also been published in the Annals of Scotch Nat. Hist., 1907, 

 pp. 171-80. 



MuscineaB of Greece-ft — A. Coppey has determined the mosses and 

 hepatics collected in Greece by Maire and Petitmengin, and combined 

 them with a list of all previous records, which are but scanty. The more 

 interesting species are Barbula papillosissima (recently described), 

 Grimmia Hartmanni, Funaria Mairena sp. n., Bry am provincial e, Hyii- 

 num commutatum, H.falcatum, H. irrigatum. Annotations and figures 

 of these are given. 



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* Naturalist, No. 607 (1907) p. 327. t Op. cit., No. 612 (1908) pp. 15-16. 



X Op. cit., No. 616 (1908) p. 193. § Op. cit., No. 617 (1908) pp. 201-2. 



|| Op. cit., No. 606 (1907) pp. 256-7. 



f Journ. of Bot., xlvi. (1908) pp. 227-30. 

 ** Proc. Eoy. Phil. Soc. Glasgow, xxxviii. (1907) pp. 150-8. 



tt Bull. Soc. Sci. Nancy (1908) 70 pp. (4 pis.). See also Rev. Bryolog., xxxv. 

 (1908) p. 98. 



