732 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



has recently been found sterile in North Carolina. Z. excehi/s, un- 

 known with fruit, appears to be more closely related to Leptodontium 

 than to Zygodon. 



British Mosses.* — The Moss Exchange Club publish their thirteenth 

 annual report, giving an enumeration of the species and varieties of 

 mosses and hepatics found by the members, and interspersed here and 

 there with critical notes by the leading members. Descriptions of five 

 new or rare species recently added to the British moss-flora are trans- 

 lated from the originals and inserted in an appendix. 



Muscinese of the Jura Range.! — C Meylau gives the results of 

 his bryological researches in the chain of the Jura during 1907, and is 

 able to add seven species and several forms and varieties to the flora. 

 In all he enumerates 76 mosses and 22 hepatics. 



Italian Mosses. $ — A. Bottini insists upon the importance of a new 

 bryological exploration of Italy. He gives a brief sketch of what has 

 already been done, and shows in a table the relative numbers of sphag- 

 naceous, acrocarpous and pleurocarpous mosses ascertained to occur in 

 the whole of Italy and in its several provinces in 1887, and again in 

 1907. In another table he shows the relative numbers of species recorded 

 for each of the twenty-four smaller islands off the coast of Italy. As 

 remarkable instances of moss-distribution, he cites the occurrence of the 

 Scandinavian Brachythecium gelidum Bryhn on the Graian Alps ; and 

 he adds descriptions and figures of the following new species : Galymperes 

 Sommieri, a member of a tropical genus, discovered in the volcanic part 

 of the island Pantelleria ; BarbeUa strongylensis, another member of a 

 tropical genus, found upon the volcano of Stroniboli ; and Thamnium 

 cossyreme and T. mediterraneum, found respectively on Pantelleria and 

 Giglio. 



New Mosses of Japan and Corea.§— J. Cardot publishes a further 

 series of descriptions of new mosses of Japan and Corea, where they were 

 collected by Abbe Faurie. There are in all thirty-two species and 

 varieties, and they fall into the acrocarpous group. Six of them belong 

 to the genus Grimmia, and fourteen to Rhacomitrium. 



Muscinese of French China. || — E. G.Paris gives an account of some 

 Muscineae collected by R. P. Courtois at various stations in the province 

 of Kiang Sou last February. Altogether thirteen mosses and three 

 hepaticae are enumerated ; and eight of them are described by Paris and 

 Brotherus as new to science. 



Bryological Notes. If — J. Cardot publishes various bryological 

 notes : — 1. On Campylopodiella, a new genus of the family Dicranacere, 

 containing one species found in Darjeeling. It shows affinity with 



* York : Coultas and Volans, 1908, pp. 267-94. 

 t Bull. Herb. Boiss., viii. (1908) pp. 353-62. 

 % Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., xv. (1908) pp. 179-88 (4 pis.). 

 § Bull. Herb. Boiss., viii. (1908) pp. 331-6. 

 || Bev. Bryolog., xxxv. (1908) pp. 125-9. 

 1 Bull.Herb. Boiss., viii. (1908) pp. 90-2, 163-74 (figs.). 



