ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 399 



Moss-g-alls in Bavaria.* — J. Fainiller discusses instances of moss- 

 g'alls noticed by him in Bavaria, on seventeen species of mosses and 

 three species of hepatics. He figures the malformations caused in some 

 of the leaves. 



Rare European Mosses.f— G. Roth publishes diagnoses and figures 

 of some new and little known European mosses, forming a supplement 

 to his Europiiische Laubmoose published in 1904-5. The species 

 described and figured are Didymodon f/laucus Lindb., Trichostomum 

 cucidlati/m Card., Hpophila hisitanica Card, et Dix., Grimmia ulaiica 

 Card., Funaria fustulom Zodda, Fontinalis Lachenaudi Card., Claoiio- 

 dium algarvkum Nicholson, FseudoJeskea illyrica GIoav., Isothecium 

 algarvicimi Xich. et Dix., Bracliytlwimm micro^fus Schimp., Amlly- 

 stegium oJigorrhizon Giimb. In a post>;cript the author states that he 

 has made drawings of 1414 European and 7340 exotic species. 



Portuguese Hepatics. f — W. E. Xicholson gives an account of the 

 hepatics collected in Algarve, in the south of Portugal, in Mav 1911. 

 The mosses have been described a year previously in the same journal 

 by H. X. Dixon. There was a predominance of thalloid hepatics, 

 including interesting species of Rkcia and the curious xerophytic 

 Exormotheca pustulosa of the Atlantic Islands, a plant which was 

 invisible until after heavy rain. In all, fifty-six species are recorded ; 

 a few new varieties are described, and critical notes added. 



Bryophytes of Morocco. § — L. Corbiere publishes a contribution to 

 the bryological flora of Morocco, previously unknown, save for a list by 

 W. Mitten (1878) of 35 mosses and 6 hepatics gathered by J. Ball. 

 Corbiere records 94 mosses and 30 hepatics, collected by Lieut. 

 Mouret during the French campaign. Three of the mosses are new to 

 science, and their structural characters are described. Exormotheca pus- 

 tidosa is a new record for Xorth Africa : it is a thalloid hepatic of the 

 Atlantic Islands. 



Two Sahara Mosses. || — A. Co^^pey describes and figures the struc- 

 ture of two new mosses orathered in the Alsrerian Sahara bv R. Maire in 



Or- 



1906 — Grimmia Maird Card, et Copp. from South Oran, and Tortida 

 humilUma Card, et Copp. from Beni-Ounif. Both grow so buried in 

 sand as to be very inconspicuous. Figures of Plagiothecium curvifoUum 

 are added. 



The same author in a subsequent paperif' describes the peculiarities of 

 habit and structure, in leaf and capsule, of Plagiothecium curvifoUum 

 Schlieph., to which the figures mentioned above belong. This moss, a 

 new French record, found in the Yosges and Jura, is a puzzling plant, and 

 is best regarded as a variety — P. denticulatum var. curvifoUum Meylan. 



* Hedwigia, liii. (1913) pp. 156-60 (figs.), 

 t Hedwigia, liii. (1913) pp. 124-33 (1 pL). 

 J Kev. Bryolog., xl. (1913) pp. 1-6. 

 § Kev. Brvolog., xl. (1913) pp. 7-13. 

 li Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iviii. (1911) pp. 500-4 (2 pis.). 

 ^ Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iviii. (1911) pp. 539-42. 



