66 "summary of current researches relating to 



collected by C. J. Brooks and others. Among them are four new 

 species, three new varieties, and a new genus — Protolindsaya, a little 

 fern allied to Saccoloma moluccanum and Lindsay a cultrata. 



Ferns of the Philippine Islands. *— E. D. Merrill and M. L. 

 Merritt in their account of the flora of Mount Pulog, in the Philippine 

 island of Luzon, include a list of eighty-one ferns and six fern-allies 

 determined by E. B. Copeland. A description is given of the ascent, 

 of the flora of the several zones, and of the relationships with the floras 

 of other regions. 



Distribution of Molendoa Sendtneriana in Hungary.! — I- GyortTy 

 treats of the distribution of the moss, Molendoa Sendtneriana, in Hungary. 

 Hitherto it was recorded from the Hohe Tatra only. But Gyorffy now 

 announces its occurrence in the lower Tatra mountains down to 1660 ft. 

 above sea-level. Previously it had not been found lower than 3000 ft. 



Dicranoloma.J — J. Hagen refers again to the faulty construction of 

 the name Dicranoloma, and cites a general rule that the second part of 

 such a name constitutes the principal member, while the first part serves 

 only to qualify it. Thus to coin the name in such a way as to give it 

 the meaning " Dicranum with bordered leaves," it would be necessary 

 to make it Lomato-dicran urn . 



Annulus of Cynodontium Alpestre.§— J. Hagen describes the 

 annulus cf the sporogonium of Cynodontium alpestre, a structure which 

 lias hitherto escaped notice iu that species, and which is of a nature 

 unknown elsewhere in the moss kingdom. The annulus lies round the 

 base of the peristome, and consists of a single series of nucleated, hyaline 

 cells, with the outer wall not thickened. Further it is abnormal in that, 

 without reaching the surface, it lies in a hollow furrow along the interior 

 margin of the operculum, and is completely covered by its exterior 

 margin. 



Merceyopsis g. n. and other Indian Mosses. || — H. X. Dixon 

 gives an account of Merceyopsis, a new genus of mosses with seven 

 Indo-Malayan species ranging from the north-west Himalaya to Java 

 and the Philippines. It is closely allied to Merceya, but differs in 

 having a hyophiloid areolation, and in the median (not ventral) deuter- 

 cells of its leaf-nerve section. From Hyophila it is distinguished by 

 the absence of a central strand in the stem, and by the elliptic (not 

 cylindric) capsule with lax thin-celled exotheciUm. A key to the species 

 is given. In the same paper is a list of some twenty-four Indian 

 mosses collected in the Western Ghats and in the Almora district. 

 Among these are six new species with descriptions and figures. Ptero- 

 bryum Jcanarense, previously described, proves to be identical with 

 P. Walkeri Broth. 



Ephemerum and Nanomitrium in North America. IT — G. E. Nichols 

 publishes some field notes on Ephemerum and Nanomitrium, which. 



. # Philippine Journ. of Sci., Bot., v. (1910) pp. 315-24. 

 t Magyar Bot. Lapok, ix. (1910) pp. 194-8. 



J Rev. Bryolog., xxxvii. (1910) pp. 132-3. § Tom. cit., pp. 133-4. 



- || Journ. of Bot., xlviii. (1910) pp. 297-310 (2 pis.). 

 i Bryologist, xiii. (1910) pp. 121-3. 



