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Campylopodiam and with Brothera. 2. On the Japanese species of 

 Leucobrgum. These are twelve ; and two of them are easily distin- 

 guished (L. scabrum and L. glaucum). Another true species is 

 L. Bowringii. But the rest pass insensibly into one another, and are 

 considered by the author to constitute a group of forms of L. neilgher- 

 rense, showing wide and complex variability. 3. On a small collection 

 of Mosses from New Caledonia, twenty-six in number, and gathered 

 some years ago by Deplanche and Vieillard. Among them are five 

 species and two varieties new to science. 4. On Dkranum nova,- 

 hollandm Hornsch. This Australian moss has, through the copying of 

 an error, been referred by several authors as a synonym to Hemiragis 

 aurea, a West Indian pleurocarpous moss. It is in reality related to 

 D. dicarpum, and Cardot gives a diagnosis and figure of its details, as it 

 has never been described. 



Subfamilies of HypnaceaB.* — V. F. Brotherus publishes another 

 part of his Musci in Engler and Prantl's " Die natiirlichen Pflanzen- 

 familien." After treating of the remaining genera of Thuidieae, he 

 passes on to Amblystegieas (with 11 genera), Hylocomieaj (12), both of 

 which are classed among the sub-families of Hypnaceaa. The new 

 genera among the Thuidieas are Duthiella C. Muell. (with 2 species), 

 Actinothuidium Broth. (1) ; among the Hylocomiea3 PuiqgarieUa Broth. 

 (2), Gollania Broth. (9 or 10). 



European Species of Oncophorus.t — C. Meylan has studied hun- 

 dreds of specimens of Oncophorus, and has come to the conclusion that 

 0. virens and 0. Wahlenbergii are two very distinct species, but are 

 certainly descended from a common stock. They are very near 

 neighbours, especially in their compact forms found in the high Alps. 

 Meylan discusses the structure of the stems, leaves, and capsules, 

 describes all the varieties, and gives an analytical table to the species 

 and their varieties. 



Pohlia annotina and Allied Species. :{:— G. Dismier publishes notes 

 upon the four species, Pohlia proligera S. 0. Lindb., P. annotina Loeske, 

 P. Rothii Broth., P. bulbifera Warnst., which have resulted from the 

 modern splitting of the old species Webera annotina Hedw. He is now 

 persuaded that they are four good species, though three years ago he 

 published in the same periodical his reasons for regarding them as of no 

 higher than sub-specific rank. At that time he maintained the generic 

 name Webera, but now he gives reasons for the use of Pohlia. He cites 

 papers by Loeske and Warnstorf, which give the results of careful in- 

 vestigations of the validity of these species and satisfactorily establish 

 their validity. 



Grimmia andreaeoides.§ — R. Sebille highly recommends Pralognan, 

 situated at an elevation of 4750 ft. in the Tarentaise, as a collecting 

 ground for Muscineae, and gives a list of 17 rare species in proof of his 



* Leipzig : W. Engelrnann, lief. 231 (1908) pp. 1009-5G, figs. 733-57. 

 t Bull. Herb. Boiss., viii. (1908) pp. 469-82 (figs.). 

 % Bev. Bryolog., xxxv. (1908) pp. 115-20. 

 § Torn, cit., pp. 120-5 (figs.). 



