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Species Hepaticarum.* — F. Stephani has published further instal- 

 ments of his Species Hepaticarum, that is to say, he has provided new 

 descriptions of the following genera and their species : — Schistochila 

 (83), Balantiopsis (15), Diplophyllum (24), Delavayella (1), Scapania 

 (78), Radula (220), Phurozia (10), Madotheca (153), Frullania. The 

 last named genus is unfinished, but its subgenus CkonantheUa contains 

 82 species, GaJeiloba 230 species, and Thiopsiella 190 species. The sheets 

 are issued as a supplement to the Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier which 

 became defunct at the end of 1909. Many of the species are described 

 for the first time. 



Bryological Index, j — E. G. Paris has published a supplement to his 

 Index Bryologicus, in which he cites the moss-names employed by 

 V. F. Brotherus in Engler's Pflanzenfamilien and gives cross-references 

 to the synonyms in the Index Bryologicus — a convenience much needed 

 by moss-students. 



Illustrations of Exotic Mosses. J— G. Roth has published two 

 more parts of his Die Aussereuropaischen Laubinoose, in which he gives 

 figures and new descriptions of exotic mosses. The first volume is to 

 contain the Andreaeaceae, Archidiaceae, Cleistocarpae, and Trematodonteae. 

 Part I. contained Andresea with 102 species. Parts II. and III. contain 

 descriptions of 25 species of Archidium, 147 species of Cleistocarpeas, 

 and a portion (17 species) of the Trematodonteae. The Cleisto- 

 carpeas are an artificial group, being the indehiscent members of several 

 families brought together for convenience of treatment. The families 

 concerned are as follows : — Trematodonteas, Ditrichieaa, Trichostomeas, 

 Pottieas, Voitiese, Gigaspermeaa, Ephemereaa, Fumarieas. Keys to the 

 species are provided, and in many genera keys to the European species 

 are also provided — a feature omitted by the author in his previous work, 

 Die Europaischen Laubmoose. 



New or Rare European Mosses. § — G. Roth publishes descriptions 

 and figures of 22 new or rare European mosses which are additional to 

 the species included in his Europaischen Laubmoose (1904-5). The 

 plants treated belong to the following genera : Tetraplodon, Splachnum, 

 Pohlia, and especially Bryum (sections Ptyckostomum, Hemisynapsium, 

 Areodictyon, Eucladodium, Eubryum) ; also PhUonotis and Timmia. 

 Bryum splachnoides, described and figured as a Br achy men ium by 

 Harvey in 1840 from a Himalayan specimen, has been recorded from 

 Nepal and Yunnan ; but its distribution was remarkably extended in 

 1906 by its discovery at Knossos in Crete by W. E. Nicholson. 



British Mosses and Liverworts.|| — T. H. Russell publishes a 

 second edition of his Introduction to the study of mosses and liver- 

 worts. The first edition appeared in 1908. Some alterations are now 



• Geneva, iv. (1909-10) pp. 65-528. 



t Collatio norninurn Brotkerianorum et Indicis Bryologici, Paris : Bailli£re, 

 1911, 37 pp. 



% Dresden : Heidrich, 1910-11, Band i. lief. 2-3, pp. 97-272 (pis. 9-24). 



§ Hedwigia, 1. (1910) pp. 163-80 (2 pis.) 



|| London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1910, new edit., xvi. and 211 pp. 

 (11 pis.). 



