ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 695 



gives first a short history of the work done in the past, beginning with 

 Dillenius' Historia Muscorum in 1741, and touching on the principal 

 collectors. He mentions that the interesting herbarium of the Ameri- 

 can, Coe F. Austin, is now in the Manchester Museum. The author 

 then describes in popular terms the general character of the Hepatic^e 

 and their structure, under the headings : stem, leaves, texture of leaves, 

 inflorescence, and perianth. Finally, he makes some remarks on their 

 distribution and nomenclature, and offers to name specimens or assist 

 any student in this branch of Botany. 



Hepaticae of Baden.* — K. Miiller publishes the eighth and, for the 

 present, the last of his papers on the Liverworts of Baden, the study of 

 which he has been pursuing for the last ten years. When he first began 

 his work, only 124 species as now recognised were known for Baden, 

 and now there are 159. He divides the duchy into 11 districts, and 

 gives the number of species recorded then, and now, from each, stating 

 at the same time his belief that the work is by no means com- 

 pleted, Init that the distril)ution of some of the species may yet be 

 considerably enlarged. In the present paper he enumerates 104 species, 

 giving new localities for each ; of these, 8 species are new to Baden. 

 The most interesting record is the Alpine Frullania Jackii Gottsche, at 

 a height of 500 m. above sea-level, where it grew sparingly, in the 

 neighbourhood of Murgthal with F. Tamarisci. 



German Mosses. f — E. Prager collected mosses and hepatics in the 

 Riesengebirge during the dry summer of 1904. Some of the bogs had 

 dried up, and were easily accessible. Hence he was able to record new 

 localities and new forms in a district which had been much explored by 

 competent bryologists previously. Fontiaalis Prageri Warnst. is a new 

 species. C. Warnstorf J gives a list of ol mosses and hepatics collected 

 by him during a day's excursion to Ludwigslust, a large grand-ducal 

 park between Berlin and Hamburg. He describes a new variety of 

 Brachythecium rutahuium. 



Hybrid Moss-names. § — C. Warnstorf protests against Roth's having 

 dropped the specific name of Sphagnum crassidadum on account of its 

 mixed Graeco-Latin derivation, and points out that he maintains the 

 equally objectionable S. cymbifoUum, as indeed he is bound to do by the 

 rales of nomenclature. 



Austrian Mosses. |1 — J. Glowacki concludes his report on the mosses 

 of the Austrian protectorate, giving lists from 19 different localities. 

 Among the species is one novelty, Pse.udoleskea illyrka, allied to 

 P. atrovirens, which is fully described. Lists are also given of collec- 

 tions of mosses made by Karlinski in Cajnica, Sarajevno, etc., and by 

 Straka in the district of Foca. 



* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., xxii., Abt. 2 (1907) pp. 241-54. 

 t Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr., xiii. (I'JOT) pp. 122-6 (fig). 



I Tom. cit., pp. 130-1. § Tom. cit., pp. 131-2. 



II Verb. k.k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, Ivii. (1907) pp. 223-44. 



