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variety, which adopts a floating habit as soon as it becomes covered with 

 water. It is often associated with Ricciocarpus nutans. 



L. Loeske * gives an account of the moss-flora of Fussen and Hohen- 

 schwangan, in the Algau Alps. He describes the geological formation, 

 mainly chalk, and groups the species according to their substrata, etc. 

 — humus, mountain-tarns, pine-forests, rocks, tree-trunks, spray of water- 

 falls, woodland-paths, etc. He then enumerates his results in systematic 

 order, namely, fifty-four hepatics and 202 mosses, with many critical 

 notes interspersed. 



E. Prager t publishes some supplementary notes on the moss-flora of 

 tin' Riesengebirge, of Brandenburg, and of East Prussia. He treats of 

 varieties and forms of Dr&planocladus and Calliergon. 



Bryophytes of Southern Europe.^ — C Warnstorf gives a list of the 

 bryophytes collected by Max Fleischer in the south of France and in 

 Spain in April-May, 1908. He records 153 mosses, seven hepatics, and 

 two Sphagnaceae. Three new species of Br yum are described, and 

 several new varieties. Critical notes are appended to some six of the 

 species. 



Mosses of New Guinea.§ — M. Fleischer gives an account of the new 

 species of mosses collected in Dutch New Guinea by L. S. A. M. von 

 Romer during the second Lorentz expedition. There are seven new 

 species, and they were collected in the primeval forests on the snow- 

 mountains of the interior. 



Mosses of Eastern Asia.|| — E. G. Paris publishes his twelfth article 

 on the mosses of eastern Asia, and treats of three collections — one made 

 by P. Courtois in Kang Sou and Ngan Hoei, in eastern China ; one by 

 M. Met near Lao-Kay, in Tonkin ; and the third by D. Eberhardt near 

 Hue, in Annam. Forty-seven species are enumerated, and fifteen of 

 these are described as new. 



New Japanese Mosses. IF— S. Okamura publishes some new contri- 

 butions to the moss-flora of Japan. The following species are new to 

 science : — Buxbaumia Minakatse, Haplohymenium brachycladum, Isotachis 

 Makinoi, Dolichomitriopsis crmulata ; Dolichomitriopsis being a new 

 genus of the family Lembophyllaceae. A description is given of the 

 fruit of Scapania spinosa, previously unknown. Two European species, 

 Buxbaumia aphylla and Pleuridium subutatum, are reported as occuiring 

 iti Japan. 



Moss-flora in Central Asia.** — V. F. Brotherus gives a brief sketch 

 of the bryogeography of Central Asia which he had an opportunity of 

 studying during an expedition, equipped by Helsingfors University in 

 1896, to Eastern Turkestan and the Tian-shan Mountains. On the steppes 

 mosses are very poorly represented, save for the endemic species Tortula 

 desertorum and Grimmia anodon and G. orbicularis. By the irrigation- 



* Tom. cit., pp. 210-48. t Torn, cit., pp. 255-60. 



% Hedwigia, 1. (1911) pp. 189-203. § Hedwigia, 1. (1911) pp. 279-86. 



|| Rev. Brvolog., xxxviii. (1911) pp. 53-60. 

 \ Bot. Mag. Tokyo, xxv. (1911) pp. 30-4, 65-8 (figs.). 



** Forhandl. Nordisk. Naturf. och Liikaremotet. Helsingfors, xxi. 7 (1903) Bot., 

 pp. 39-41. 



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