056 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



and distinguished from /•'. csespiiiformis by having smaller spores covered 

 by shorter, more abundant, acute papillae. Another species, /•'. Mittenii, 

 is closely allied, but lias larger spores covered by broader, more com- 

 pressed, truncate papillae. The author holds that F. verrucosa Lindb. 

 i> nut a true species, but an undeveloped state of F. csespitiformis, in 

 company with which it always occurs. 



Critical European Mosses.* — E. Bauer publishes some importanl 

 criticisms of Seligeria brevifolia, Anoectangium Hornschuchianwn, Di- 

 cranum fuscescens, birrawxiontium subfalcatum, Ditrichum julifiliforme, 

 recently issued in exsiccati. 



British Muscinese. — W. H. Burrellt and W. G. Clark publish some 

 notes on the moss-flora and rarer flowering plants of West Norfolk. 

 Fourteen species of Sphagnum were found ; the genus is, however, but 

 scantily distributed. Some interesting mosses are noted, and the rare 

 hepatic Sphserocarpus terrestris has been found in more than fifty parishes. 

 MorcTcia also is a Norfolk hepatic. It would seem that not Sphagnum 

 but Hypnum stdlatum and H. ncorpioides afford the association upon 

 which Malaxis is epiphytic ; and the same may apply to Liparis. 



R. Jackett % gives a list of 88 hepatics and 145 mosses gathered by 

 him on the banks of the Rheidol, the Mynach, and the Turn in August 

 1907. He states that 10 hepatics and 17 mosses are new records for 

 the county of Cardigan. 



E. A. Richards § publishes some short notes upon mosses collected by 

 him in South Aberdeen during July 1910. The mosses are nineteen in 

 number and were found on hills and in glens near Ballater and Braemar ; 

 they are additions to the county flora. Among them is Philonotis tomen- 

 tella, recently split off from P.fontana by Loeske. 



Moss-flora of Haute-Saone.|| — A. Coppey publishes a further instal- 

 ment of his phytogeographic studies on the mosses of the Haute-Saone, 

 and gives records of fifty-six species, mostly Grimmiea? and Orthotrichea?. 



Belgian Bryophytes.^T — A. Cornet gives a list of habitats of rare 

 bryophytes in Belgium, comprising thirty-six mosses and nineteen hepa- 

 tics, interspersed with some critical notes. 



Moss-flora of Rhine-land.** — H. Brockhausen gives a sketch of the 

 moss-flora of Rhine-land, and records as new to the district Ditrichum 

 juliiforme. The limits of Eurhynchium atrovirens (= Swartzii) and 

 E. hians in relation to E.praelonyum have still to be worked out critically. 



Mosses of the Erzgebirge.ff — J. Roll publishes a second contribution 

 to the moss-flora of the Erzgebirge, mainly devoted to the Sphagnaceaj. 

 In five short lists he indicates the moss-floras characteristic of certain 



* Deutsch. Bot. Monatschr., xxii. (1911) pp. 97-102. 



t Journ. of Bot., xlix. (1911) pp. 267-70. 



\ Journ. of Bot., xlix. (1911) pp. 230-2. 



§ Journ. of Bot., xlix. (1911) pp. 232-3. 



I Rev. Bryolog., xxxviii. (1911) pp. 90-3. 



f Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg., xlvii. (1911) pp. 291-6. 



** 38 Jahresber. Westfal. Prov.-Verein. Miinster (1910; pp. 93-101. 



tf Hedwigia, ii. (1911) pp. 65-112. 



