694 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1881 



Main gay and by Crombie on lichens of the Challenger expedition. The 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh has descriptions of new lichens from New- 

 foundland, New Zealand, and Scotland by Stirton. 



ARCHEGONIATA. 



Mosses and Hepaticcc — Very little has appeared during the year in this 

 department, and that includes principally accounts of the mosses of 

 limited districts. Haberlandt has a paper on the function of the axial 

 bundle in moss stems in the Bericht. Deutsch. Bot. Gesell., and W. W. 

 Bailey has an article on the general structure of mosses in Am. Natu- 

 ralist, an Enumeratio. The list of plants from Southwestern Texas and 

 Northern Mexico, collected by E. Palmer, to which reference is given 

 under Phaenogams, includes mosses and hepaticse determined by T. P. 

 James, an Enumeratio. 



Muscorum Europceorum, by Gravet in Revue Bryologique, is intended to 

 be an exchange list for European species. The seventh part of Braith- 

 waite's British Moss-Flora includes Dicranacece. For French species 

 we may mention Husnot's Flore analytique et descriptive des mousses du 

 nord-ouest, of which a second edition has been published with a gen- 

 eral introduction to the study of mosses, and the first part of Delogne's 

 Cryptogamic Flora of Belgium includes the mosses of that country, in 

 Germany there has appeared a description of new mosses by Limprieht 

 in the Bericht. Schles. Gesell., and a paper on the Sphagna of Flotow's 

 herbarium by Warnstorf ill Flora. For Italy we should note two pa- 

 pers, one by Saccardo and Bizzozera on the mosses of tl») Venetian 

 district, and by Bozzi on the mosses of the province of Pa via. The 

 Atti Soc. Critt. Ital. have a first installment of a paper on the bryologie 

 flora of Catalina by Bottini, Arcangeli, and Macchiati. The Central- 

 blatt has an original paper by Karl Miiller, entitled Musci Tschuctschici, 

 in which he describes a number of new species from a little known region 

 of Northeastern Asia. Stephani has described six new Sepaticw in 

 Hedivigia, one of the species Frullania Pennsylvanica collected by Rau 

 being also described in the Torrey Bulletin. Massalongo and Carestia 

 have a paper of Hepaticce of the Apennines in the Revue Bryologique. 



Ferns and Higher Cryptogams. — Of general works we may mention 

 JS'omenclator der Gefasskryptogamen, by Carl Salomon, which gives the 

 synonym and distribution of the vascular cryptogams in a condensed 

 form, Van Tieghem's Quelques points de Vanatomie des cryptogames vas- 

 culaires in the Bull. Soc. Bot. France, which treats of certain fossil as 

 well as living types, and Potonie's Structure of the icoody bundle in the 

 vascular cryptogams in the Report of the Botanic Garden of Berlin. The 

 last-named journal has also a paper by Prantl entitled Systematische 

 Ucbersicht der Ophioglosseen. The same writer has a paper in Bericht. 

 Deutsch. Bot. Gesell. on Helminthostachys zeylanica, and its relations to 

 Ophioglossum and Botrychium. The Torrey Bulletin includes the greater 



