SUMMARY OF UUBRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Moss-flora of the Haute-Saone.* — A. Coppey publishes a further 

 instalmenl of his phyioi: 1 < "graphic studies on the mosses of the Haute- 

 Sa6ne, and gives records of forty-four species of Tortulaceae and 

 Pottiacese. 



Sphagnacese of the Rhbngebirge.t — J. Roll writes on the 

 Sphagnaceae of the Rbbngebirge, and gives a list of seventeen species 

 and several varieties, many of them being new records for the district. 



Mosses of the Crimea.:}: — A. A. Sapehin gives an account of the 

 ecology and plant-geography of the Mosses of the Crimea mountains. 

 Ilr first discusses such external conditions as temperature, moisture, 

 light, substratum, wind, etc., in relation to various species ; and then 

 he treats of moss-associations in three classes, namely xerophytts, 

 hygrophytes, and hydrophytes, subdivided according to the nature of 

 the soil and forest. 



Mosses of Ceylon. § — T. Herzog gives an ecological account of the 

 moss-flora of Ceylon, and endeavours to describe the way in which the 

 species fit into the landscape. The plains are almost bare of mosses, 

 but in the lower hills there is some richness of species, especially Calyni- 

 peraceae and LeucobryaceEe, endemic or of Malayan affinity. In the 

 upper hills there is a wonderful display of mosses, conspicuous by their 

 colours and abundant in their variety ; many of these also are endemic. 

 His enumeration contains 200 species, 15 of which are new. 



Moss-flora of the Atlantic Islands. || — A. Geheeb at his death left 

 an unfinished account of the moss-flora of the Atlantic Islands, which 

 has been completed by T. Herzog and published in Luerssen's Bibliotheca 

 Botanica. It is divided into three parts : — 1. Lists of species (with 

 localities) of mosses of the Azores (108), Madeira (176), Canaries (212), 

 Cape de Verd (20), Ascension (20), St. Helena (32), Tristan d' Acunha (36). 

 2. Descriptions of 35 new and critical species, 6 of them being created 

 by Geheeb. 3. An account of the geographical conditions of the various 

 islands, with lists of their endemic species. The total enumeration amounts 

 to 476 species and 7 varieties. The 19 coloured plates are reproductions 

 of water-colour drawings by Frau Geheeb. 



Teneriffe Mosses. If — H. N. Dixon gives an account of a collection of 

 mosses gathered by J. H. Salter in Teneriffe, mostly in the very dry 

 neighbourhood of Guimar on the southern side of the island, between 

 December 1908 and February 1910. About 53 species and varieties are 

 recorded ; 8 of these are additions to the fldra of the Canaries, 3 of them 

 being new to science. Critical notes are added to several of the species. 



Moss-flora of Tunis.**— J. Pitard and L. Corbiere give a list of 

 additions to the moss-flora of Tunis. Previous records are to be found 



* Rev. Bryolog., xxxviii. (1911) pp. 45-8. 

 t Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr., xvii. (1911) pp. 18-21. 

 X Engl. Bot. Jahrb., xlv. (1911) pp. 62-83. 

 § Hedwigia, 1. (1910) pp. 115-45. 



|| Bibliotheca botanica, Heft 73, Stuttgart, 1910, 74 pp. (20 pis.). See also 

 Hedwigia, 1. (1910) Beibl., pp. 157-8. 



If Journ. of Bot., xlix. (1911) pp. 1-8 (1 pi.). 



** Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, lvi. Session extraord. 1910, pp. lv-lviii. 



