ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 447 



Bryophyta. 



(By A. Gepp.) 



North American Muscineae. — B. Fink * publishes a memoir of the 

 late Clara Eaton Cnmmings, of Wellesley College in the United States, 

 author of sundry papers on North American bryophytes and lichens, 

 and part-editor of pubhshed sets. A. Lorenz t gives the distribution of 

 the genus Catharinea in Hartford County (Conn.), with notes on 

 geology and physical geography. Three species are found. A. J. 

 Grout I publishes notes on various matters, for instance, the aromatic 

 smell of Gonocephalum cotiicum ; freaks in mosses, abnormal capsules, 

 etc. ; and the value of authentic local moss-floras. B. F. Bush § records 

 some occurrences of Pogonatum temie in Missouri and Alabama, and 

 describes the habitats. T. C. Frye 1| demonstrates that Catharinea 

 rosulata C. M. and Kindb. described in Macoun's Canadian Catalogue is 

 in all respects indistinguishable from C. Selunjni Kindb., originally 

 described as Atrickum SeJwyni by Austin. A. B. Jackson^ calls atten- 

 tion to the use of CUmacium amerkanum by English florists for wreaths 

 and crosses, sometimes dyed. It is imported dry by Oriental dealers 

 and sold as " Resurrection Moss," from its property of expanding when 

 moistened. C. C. Plitt ** writes of the liking shown by ants for the 

 spores of Wehera sessiUs {Diphyscium foUosu?n), and gives instances of 

 the removal of the spores by ants both from freshly-gathered specimens 

 and from plants growing over an ant's nest. He inquires whether 

 other mosses are similarly attacked. C. H. Clarke jf writes of the 

 variation of colour in Andrecea rupestris in woods near sea-level at 

 Manchester (Mass.) ; on one rock were dark red cushions of the moss ; 

 on another rock, almost vertical, were flat patches of a dark green colour. 

 Both plants when dried turned black. C. C. Haynes %% describes and 

 figures two new species of Aytonia — A. Evansii and A. jamakensis — 

 from Jamaica, collected in 190;^) by Evans and Underwood. They are 

 related respectively to PJagiochasma elongatum from Mexico and 

 P. Wrightii from Texas, and differ from one another in their stomata, 

 ventral scales, and their appendicula, position of androecium, and 

 character of cuticle. E. G. Britton and A. Hollick §§ describe a new 

 species of fossil moss from the Tertiary shales at Florissant, Colorado, 

 under the name of Glyphomitrium Cockerel I ece. It is figured with five 

 other North American plant-remains which have been described as 

 mosses. Two of these are, in the opinion of Britton and Hollick, 

 rather Conifera^, and of two others the generic determination is open to 

 douljt. G. CockerellecB is the first fossil moss with fruit thus far recorded 

 from America. 



Muscineae of Annam.|| || — E. G. Paris publishes a list of 06 mosses 

 and 6 hepatics collected by Eberhardt in the Langbian district of 



* Bryologist, x. (1907) pp. 37-41 (portrait). t Tom. cit., pp. 45-7. 



t Tom. cit., pp. 47-9. § Tom. cit., p. 53. 



II Tom. cit., pp. 53-4. *| Tom. cit., pp. 54. 



** Tom. cit., pp. 54-5. tt Tom. cit., p. 55. 

 Xt Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxxiv. (1907) pp. 57-60 (2 pis.). 

 §§ Tom. cit., pp. 139-42 (1 pi.). 

 II ll Rev. Bryol., xxxiv. (1907) pp. 41-9. 



