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the author found fruiting specimens of Tortula imrniis, a Mediterranean 

 species ; Barhula unguiculata and B. gracilis, rarely seen so high up ; 

 T. ruralis, usually distinctive of lowland regions ; Eiicalypta vulgaris, 

 seldom reaching 6000 ft. in the central Alps. Notes on 34 species are 

 added. A. Martin * contributes a list of 49 mosses and 15 hepatics 

 collected in the valleys of Guttanen, Hasli, Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, 

 and Gliitsch. 



French Muscineae.l — Ch. Douin publishes an enumeration of the 

 mosses and hepatics of the department of Eure-et-Loir, containing some 

 300 mosses, 16 sphagna, and ^>6 hepatics. The hepatics had never been 

 studied before. The author obtained the help of the leading experts in 

 Europe for the confirmation of his results. The plants are arranged 

 according to the systems of Limpricht, Warnstorf, and Boulay. The 

 author gives an account of the botanists, literature, and exsiccati that 

 have had any bearing on the work ; and of the geology and physical 

 geography of the department. Three new species of Cephaloziella and 

 one of Didgmodon are described as new. Numerous critical notes are 

 inserted in the text. G. Desmier J reprints lists amounting to 106 mosses 

 and 24 hepatics, being the total recorded for the French department, 

 Charente-Inferieure, previous to September 1905, when he, during a 

 visit of two days at Montendre, made a collection which added 30 mosses, 

 7 sphagna, and 6 hepatics to the moss-flora of the department. Whereas 

 the previous collections were made on calcareous soil, Desmier's additions 

 were obtained from siliceous soil. The same author § collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Melisey and Servance, in the department of Haute- 

 Saone, in May and June 1906, and publishes some notes on the rarer 

 mosses gathered. The most interesting species is the very rare Bruchia 

 vogesiaca, found on the muddy shore of a pond near Servance, where it 

 was abundant, but had disappeared by the end of September. Originally 

 discovered on the Hohneck (Yosges) in 1822, B. vogesiaca has since 

 been recorded from near Gabarret (Landes) and Saint-Sylvestre (Haute- 

 Vienne) ; also from one station in the Palatinate (Germany), and one 

 in Tyrol. Desmier also collected the northern Sphagnum Dusenii and 

 SporUdera palustris, upon which latter he cites some critical remarks by 

 Boulay. 



Hungarian Mosses. — I. Gyoi-ffy || publishes some further contribu- 

 tions to the moss-flora of the Hohe Tatra, with critical notes upon the 

 following species — Pottia minutula, Didgmodon giganteus, Amphidium 

 lapponicum, Amblgstegium Sprucei. The second and third of these are 

 treated in considerable detail as regards their morphology and ecology. 

 The same author T records the occurrence of Dicranum fiilvum and eight 

 other mosses at Bade Stoosz, where they were collected by M. Futo. 

 He also gives a fresh description of Rhacomitrium canescens var. epilosum 

 H. Muell., which has been found in plenty on Tertiary sandstone at 



* Rev. Bryolog., xxxiv. (1907) pp. 64-7. 



t INIem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Math. Cherbourg, xxxv. (1905-6) pp. 221-358 (figs.). 

 X Bull. Soc. Bot. France, liii. (1906) pp. 338-43. 

 § Tom. cit., pp. 537-40. 



II Magyar Bot. Lapok, vi.|(1907) pp. 34-47 (2 pis.). 

 i Tom. cit., pp. 178-80. 



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