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primary and secondary wood, and medullary rays are preserved. Phloem, 

 inner cortex and cambium are not preserved. Ligules and ligular pits 

 are found to be present. The course of leaf traces has been followed. 

 The trace consists of a double xylem strand. The bundle is collateral 

 without secondary wood. The parichnos is present. The Eusigillarias 

 are compared anatomically, first with the Subsigillariaj, and then with 

 Lepidodeiidron and Lepidophloios. 



Bryophyta. 

 (By A. Gepp.) 



British Mosses. — C. H. Waddell* states that Orthotrichum dia- 

 phanum var. aquaticum, found by Nicholson on willows near Lewes, 

 Susses, also occurs on trees below flood-mark by the river Lagan, at 

 Magheralin, Co. Down. 



D. Lillie \ gives lists of mosses collected in Shetland, Orkney, 

 Caithness, and West Sutherland, which are additional to the records of 

 the Census Catalogue of the Moss Exchange Club. 



P. Culmann's J description of Barbula (or Didrjmodon) Nicholsoni, a 

 new moss discovered on the wall of a culvert, Amberley Wild Brooks, 

 Sussex, by W. E. Nicholson, is reproduced. 



W. G. Travis § records the discovery of the rare moss, Swartzia 

 inclinata, on boggy ground at Rainford Junction, in Lancashire. It 

 was fertile and was growing associated with Lophozia badensis. It was 

 probably the same species, and not S. montana, which was collected by 

 Skelhorne in the neighbourhood more than fifty years ago. 



Notes on European Bryophytes. || — A. Coppey discusses in some 

 detail the relationship of his Barbula papillosissima, collected at an 

 altitude of 7000 to 8000 feet on Mt. Khelmos (Aroania), in Greece ; 

 showing that it is identical with a presumed Sardinian moss named 

 B. nivalis var. hirsuta by Venturi, but it is specifically distinct from 

 B. ruralis, being characterised by the presence of a remarkable solitary 

 hollow papilla upon each leaf -cell. P. Culmann 1[ publishes a descriptive 

 note upon the true Seligeria brevifolia of Lindberg, which he has suc- 

 ceeded in finding at three stations in Switzerland ; and shows how it 

 differs from S. pusilla var. Seligeri, regarded by Limpricht as a synonym 

 of the former moss. He also records some new hepatics for Canton 

 Berne. Potier de la Varde ** having discovered the rare Alpine hepatic 

 Marsupella Sprucei near Guingamp in Brittany, describes its habitat, its 

 conditions of growth, and the difficulty of finding it at all. E. Balle ff 

 gives an enumeration of pleurocarpous mosses collected in the environs of 

 Vire, Calvados. 



Italian Muscineae.Jt — Gr. Zodda publishes a first contribution to the 

 moss-flora of the province of Belluno, based upon a collection of 106 



* Journ. of Bofc., xlvi. (1908) p. 172. t Loc. cit. 



% Tom. cit., p. 173. § Tom. cit., pp. 123-4. 



|| Rev. Bryolog., xxxv. (1908) pp. 74-9. % Tom. cit., pp. 79-80. 



** Tom. cit., p. 81. ft Tom. cit., p. 82. 

 XX Malpighia, xxi. (1907) pp. 479-511. 



