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for some time that the "Ainsty" was in N.E. Yorkshire. Having 

 had only a short time in which to prepare tlie paper, I inifortunately 

 omitted looking at my vice-comity boundaries, or the mistake might 

 have been avoided. Mosses from the following places mentioned in 

 the paper should be transferred to v.-c. 6i : — Askham Bog, Moor- 

 monkton, Hammerton, Healaugh. Appleton Roelmck, Thorparch, 

 Boston Spa, Colton, Bolton Percy, Tockwith, He<say — all of which 

 are in the Aiusty of York. Mosses from Leckby Carr should be 

 transferred to v.-c. 65. — Wm. Ingham. 



RuBUS CRINIGER Liuton IN SOMERSET. — In September, 1894, 

 I collected by a roadside near Oare, in West Somerset (v.-c. 5), a 

 bramble which I conld not name. A few days ago I examined the 

 specimens agaui, and, still feeling uncertain, took them to Mr. 

 Rogers, who tells me that they are B. crini(/er Linton. This makes 

 a new '* county record," and considerably extends the known 

 distribution of the species. — R. P. ^Iurray. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Genera Mimcoi um Frondosorum, Classes Schistocarporum, Cleisto- 

 carponini, Steffocarporum coniplectentla, exceptis Ortliotnchaceis 

 et Pleurocdiph. Gattungen und Gruppen der Laubmoose in 

 historischer und systematischer Beziehung, sowie nach ihrer 

 geographischen Verbreitung unter Beriicksichtigung der Arten. 

 Handschrif tlicher Nachlass von Dr. Carl Muller. Mit einem 

 Vorworte von Dr. Karl Schliephacke. Leipzig: E. Kummer. 

 1901. Preis 12 M. Pp. viii, 474. 



Nearly two years have elapsed since the death of the renowned 

 moss- specialist Carl Mueller on February 9th, 1899. Born on 

 December 16th, 1818, and actively pursuing his studies to the 

 last, this indefatigable worker found the generous allotment of 

 nearly eighty-one years insufficient to enable him to complete his 

 life's vocation. 



In the sympathetic preface with which Dr. Schliephacke intro- 

 duces this last fragment of his old friend's work, he gives us some 

 interesting data of C.irl Mueller's career — how he discovered his 

 first new moss [Sphagnum muUuscoides) so long ago as the year 

 1840 ; how he began the publication of that classical work, the 

 Synopsis Muscoruni Frondosorum in 1847 and finished it in four 

 years. The two volumes contain nearly 1600 pages, and added 

 473 new species to bryological science. Before issuing his Synopsis, 

 Carl Mueller had already published twenty-five bryological papers, 

 and since its completion he has added eighty more, three of which 

 have appeared since his death. These contributions are to be found 

 in all sorts of periodicals and books of travel. In 1853 was produced 

 his Deutschlands Moose, a volume of 512 pages. Nor did his Uterary 

 activity cease here, for during a number of years he was concerned 



