416 SUMMAKY OF CURKENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



British Mosses.* — W. Ingham issues the Seventeenth Annual Report 

 of the Moss Exchange Clul). It contains a list of mosses and hepatics 

 collected by the members, with some notes on the microscopic charac- 

 teristics of the specimens. 



Scandinavian Mosses.j — W. Baur gives the diagnoses of some new 

 mosses from the North of Norway — Tortida Bauriana, Bryum {Euhryum) 

 macrodictyum, Hyyrohypnum crassinervium, and Bartramia ithyjjhylla 

 var. Baurii. 



Portuguese Mosses.J — H. N. Dixon gives an account of a bryological 

 visit made by himself and W. E. Nicholson to Portugal, especially Algarve, 

 in May I'Jll. The south-west province of Algarve was visited by Solms- 

 Laubach in 1866, since which time but little has been added to the moss- 

 flora of Portugal. The list contains 101 species. All but one of Graf 

 Solm's rarities were rediscovered, and twenty-three additions to the moss- 

 flora of Portugal are recorded, among them being two new species. Critical 

 notes on the microscopic characters of several of the species are included. 



North American Hepatic8B.§ — A. W. Evans publishes a ninth chapter 

 of notes on New England hepatic^, discussing critically the microscopic 

 and macroscopic characteristics, the distribution and systematic position 

 of the following species : Rkcia arvevsis Aust., R. Austini 8teph., R. 

 dictyospora Howe, R. Mrta Aust , R. Lescuriana Aust., Nardia scalar is 

 Gray, Odontoschisma elongcdum (a new species), Anthoceros crispulus 

 Douin. 



Hepatic83 of Temperate South America. || — F. Stephani gives an 

 account of the hepaticse collected in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, etc., 

 by Skottsberg and Halle in the Swedish expedition of 1907-1909. As 

 many as 371 species were collected, and 145 of these are described as new 

 to science. The distribution of the species is sketched out. The majority 

 came from the rainy region west of the mountain-chain. The Falkland 

 Islands and South Georgia produced several new species, and the Juan 

 Fernandez group has many interesting endemic species. Figures of the 

 structure of many species are added. 



New Zealand Mosses. 1[ — H.N. Dixon gives an account of some mosses 

 collected in New Zealand, mostly by J. Murray, during the British An- 

 tarctic Expedition in the 'Nimrod' (1907-9) The number of species 

 enumerated is 131 ; and six of them are new% and their structure and 

 habit are described and figured. Critical notes on the leaf -structure of 

 Campylopus are giveu in some detail. 



Mosses of Zululand ** — N. Brvhn gives an account of the mosses 

 collected in Zululand by H. Bryhn and M. Titlestad in 1907-10, at 

 altitudes ranging from 2000 to 4500 ft. Among them are 18 new 

 species, the characteristic structure of which is described by the author. 



* York : Coiiltas and Volans, Ltd. (1912) pp. 37-60. 

 t Allg. Bot. Zeitschr. (1911) pp. 9S-9. 

 t Eev. Brvolog., xxxix. (1912) pp. 33-50 (figs.). 

 § Rhodora, xiv. (1912) pp. 1-18. 



1| K. Svensk. Yetensk. Akad. Haudl., xlvi. (1911) 92 pp. (35 figs.). 

 4 Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xl (1912) pp. 433-59 (2 pis.). 

 ** Videusk. Selsk. Forhandl. (1911) No. 4, 27 pp. 



