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Polytrichuyn, Rhacomitrium, Dkranum. The author's researches add 

 43 mosses and four hepatics to the lists given bvBarcelo yCombis in his 

 "Flora Balear" (1879-Sl). 



Webera subannulata.* — P. Culmann, having previously announced 

 that Xo. 826 of Husnot's " Musci Gallite exsiccati " does not belong to 

 Webera lufescens, but to Mniobryum vexans, now finds that Philibert 

 described the plant as a new species, W. subannulata, intermediate be- 

 tween the genera Webera and Mniobryum, but overlooked ))y most 

 authors. Culmann rejects Roth's view that W. subannulata is identical 

 with W. pulcheIJa, but admits the close relationship between 31. vexans 

 and W. pukheUa, which has been insisted upon by Loeske. 



Mosses of the German Antarctic Expedition.t — V. F. Brotherus 

 publishes an account of the mosses collected Ijy the German South Polar 

 Expedition. A total of 61 species is given. The 50 species from 

 Kerguelen include 12 new to the island and 9 new to science. The five 

 from Heard Island (new records) include one new to science. From. 

 Possession Islands, in the Crozets, 12 are recorded for the first time, 

 three being new to science. One new species came from Gaussberg- 

 (66° 48' S.'lat., 89^ 19' E. long.). The author gives a brief resume of 

 previous collections in Kerguelen. The first was that of Sir Joseph 

 Hooker in 1840, 25 species. In 1874 three expeditions visited the 

 island for the transit of Venus : — Kidder's collection was named by 

 James in America (28 species) ; Moseley and Eaton's named by 

 Mitten (37 species) ; Naumann's named by C. Miiller (79 species). 

 Though the apparent total of these four collections amounts to 144 

 species, it is misleading, because of the very diiferent conceptions of 

 species-limitations held by the bryologists who determined the collec- 

 tions. 



Mosses of Spitzbergen.l — I. Theriot gives a list of 10 mosses col- 

 lected in Spitzbergen by Lorentz in 1906. They are mostly of an 

 arctic type, modifications of European species. For instance, Geratodon 

 arcticus Kindb. is a sub-species of the common C. purpureus ; two 

 varieties of Aulacomnium p)alustre occur, one of which has the alar cells 

 of its leaves inflated and coloured, and practically links n^^ A. papillosum 

 Lesq. and James with A. palustre. Hylocomium splendens var. yraciUus 

 Boul. appears to take precedence of var. alpimim Schlieph. 



Muscinese from Manchuria.§ — T. F. Brotherus publishes a list of 

 66 mosses and 7 hepatics (these being named by Stephani) collected 

 by P. Siuzew, a Russian officer, in Manchuria and the region of the 

 river Ussuri. Two of the pleurocarpous species are described as new. 

 No previous record of Eastern Manchurian mosses is known. 



Mosses collected in Annam and China.|| — E. G-. Paris gives a list 

 of 10 mosses and an hepatic gathered at Langbian, in Annam, by 



* Rev. Bryol.. xxxiv. (1907) p. 6. 



t Deutsch. Siidpol. Exped., viii. Bot. (1907) pp. 81-96 (2 pis. and figs.), 

 t Rev. Bryolog., xxxiv. (1907) pp. 36-7. 



§ Trav. Troitsk. Kiakhta Sect. Amur Soc. Imp. Russe Geogr., viii. No. S 

 (St. Petersbourg, 1907) 10 pp. 



II Rev. Bryolog.. xxxiv. (1907) pp. 31-3. 



