ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 497 



A. Lorenz * gives an illustrated account of the New England 

 species of Lophozia of the Muelleri-group, which is Midler's subgenus 

 Leioeoha. Two out of the seven species occur in New England, namely 

 L. Kanrini and L. badmsis. The author describes the habitats and 

 plant-associations of these species, and gives citations from various 

 authors concerning their habitats, etc., in other countries. 



J. M. Holzinger f describes a new Grimmia of the section Schistidium, 

 namely Grimmia Kindbergii. It was collected near Catala, Alaska, 

 and it is identical with No. 80« of Macoun's Canadian mosses, but it is 

 not G. Agassizii Lesq. and James, to which Macoun's plant was 

 referred by Kindberg. 



C. C. Kingman J publishes some notes on hepaticse of Southern 

 California, which is a very dry district except in the winter months. 

 On the foot-hills are found Fossombronia longiseta, Riccia frichocarpa, 

 and R. glauca. In the canyons are Porella Bolanderi, Cryptomitrium 

 temrum, and Targionia hgpophglla. On banks, etc., are Anthoceros 

 fmiformis and A. Pearsoni, Asterella calif ornica and A. Palmeri, 

 Cephaloziella Starkii and C. divaricata. On trees are Frullania catalinse 

 and F. Bolanderi. In the town of Pasadena is Marchantia polymorpha. 



G. E. Nicholls § publishes a second series of notes on Connecticut 

 mosses, mainly devoting himself to a discussion of ten species which 

 have recently been found in the state, and which, through their 

 peculiarities or their distribution, are of interest. 



Panama Mosses.|| — R. S. "Williams publishes a list of Panama 

 mosses gathered partly by himself and partly by M. A. Howe. They 

 come partly from the canal, and partly from districts to the east and 

 west. Thirty-nine species are enumerated, two of them being new to 

 science. 



Brazilian Hepatics.1T — C. Massalongo publishes a list of hepaticae 

 collected by Y. Mazzucchelli in 1904, in the Brazilian province of 

 S. Paulo. Thirty-three species are enumerated. 



Dryptodon Hartmani.** — N. Arnaoudoff gives a description of 

 Dryptodou Hartmani (Schimp.), a rare species of Europe and North 

 America, which had only been found in fruit four times, namely in 

 Corsica, east Switzerland, Upper Hungary, and Montenegro. The 

 species is not rare in the mountains of Bulgaria. And the author has 

 found it fruiting in the forest zone of Berkovska Planina in the north 

 of Bulgaria. 



F. Renauld's Moss-herbarium.ft — T. Husnot announces that the 

 exotic mosses and the European mosses of the late F. Ptenauld*s 

 herbarium have been purchased by the Paris Museum ; and the North 

 American mosses by the Harvard University at Cambridge, U.S.A. 



* Bryologist, xiv. (1911) pp. 25-31 (2 pis.). 



t Tom. cit., pp. 31-32. X Tom. cit.. pp. 33-34. 



§ Rhodora, xiii. (1911) pp. 40-6. 



It Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxxviii. (1911) pp. 33-6. 



f Rev. Bryolog., xxxviii. (1911) pp. 9-12. 



** Rev. Bryolog., xxxviii. (1911) pp. 43-5. 



ft Rev. Bryolog. xxxviii. (1911) p. 48. 



