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and in Glen Artney. See note on p. 264 in this Journal. (Journ. 

 Bot., Aug.) 



British Moss-Flora. By R. Braithwaite, M.D. Fam. xv. 

 Bryacea, Part II. This newly issued part of Dr. Braithwaite's most 

 valuable monograph treats of the mosses of the genera Pohlia (re- 

 placing IVebera), and Plagiobryam (replacing Zieria), and includes 

 25 species of the genus Bryum. As was to be looked for a few 

 changes are shown to be necessary in nomenclature. As the work 

 is indispensable to all students of mosses it would serve no useful 

 purpose to detail these changes. The plates are, as always, dis- 

 tinguished by their excellence. 



A new British Hepatic. By W. H. Pearson. Records Marsu- 

 pella conferta (Limpricht), Spruce, as found, by Mr. W. West, on 12th 

 August 1880, on Ben Nevis at about 4000 feet. It "grows in de- 

 pressed tufts, or struggling among mosses." The species is fully de- 

 scribed ; and plate 327 is devoted to its illustration. It is found in 

 Alpine situations on the Continent of Europe. {Journ. Bot., Sept.) 



A new Marine Lichen. By George Massee. This paper is an 

 account of a small collection of marine Lichens of the genus Verru- 

 caria made by Mr. E. A. L. Batters between tide marks. It includes 

 a new species V. Icetevirens, found at Berwick -on -Tweed, Loch 

 Goil, Cumbrae, and Gare Loch. The species is described, and ex- 

 cellently figured on plate 324. The other species noted in the paper 

 from Scotland are V. marina (Deak), Leight., from Berwick-on-Tweed 

 and Loch Goil (ascus and spores figured), V. mucosa, Whlngb., from 

 Loch Goil ; and V. maura, Whlngb., from Cumbraes and Lochgoil- 

 head on the west, and Burnmouth and Eyemouth on the east of 

 Scotland (ascus and spores figured). (Journ. Bot., July.) 



New British Moss. On 7th April 1892 Mr. R. H. Meldrum 

 announced, at a meeting of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 

 the discovery by himself in July 1891, on limestone on Ben Lawers, 

 of Hyptium procerrimum, Molendo, an alpine species confined to 

 limestone. At the same time he gathered another limestone species, 

 Pottia latifolia, not previously recorded from Ben Lawers. 



New or Critical British Algae. By E. A. Batters, LL.B., 

 F.L.S. Ascophyllum Mackaii, Holm, and Batt., F. Robert soni, Batt, is 

 described and illustrated (on plate 183), and its relations toy/, nodo- 

 sum are discussed fully. Mr. Batters thereafter describes a number of 

 forms recently recorded, including those referred to on p. 205 of the 

 Ann. S. A r . H. In addition to the above he describes the follow- 

 ing new or rare species from Scotland : — Microchatt arugenia 

 (Batt., Journ. />'<>t., x.w. p. 86), from shallow sandy pools near high- 

 watermark at Berwick, Pogotrichum filiforme, EUte., forma nova ,;•/•</- 

 c///s, in the Gare Loch; Ascocydus globosus, Rke., on Cladophora 

 in the dare I .och ; (" C.revillea," September). 



