58 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Ingham, W. — Mosses and Hepatics of Askrigg and District. 



[Lists of the more rare species gathered at Askrigg, Whitfield 

 Gill, Semmerwater, etc., by the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, confirming many of the records made by R. Barnes 

 some years ago.] Naturalist, No. 584 (1905) pp. 278-80. 



„ ,, New and Bare Hepatics and Mosses from Yorkshire and Durham 



[Describes and figures Kantia trichomanis var. aquatica, a new 

 variety, remarkable for its blue-green colour, longly de- 

 current leaf-base, and deeply cleft ovate stipules. Gives 

 distribution and main characters of Marsupella Pearsoni, 

 and notes on five other hepatics and two mosses. Describes 

 a curious forking of the pellucid apical cell of the leaf- 

 nerve in three several gatherings of Barbula convoluta var. 

 sardoa.] Naturalist, No. 581 (1905) pp. 171-4 (figs.). 



Jaap, 0. — Bin Kleiner Beitrag znr Moosfiora des Thuringer Waldes. (A small 

 contribution to the moss-flora of the Thuringian Forest.) 



Allg. Bot. Zeitschr., xi. (1905) pp. 106-8, 124-8. 



,, ,, "Weitere Beitrage znr Moosfiora der Nordfriesischen Inseln. (Further 

 contributions to the moss-flora of the North Friesland islands.) 



Schr. Nat. Vcr. Schleswig-Holstein, xiii. (1905) pp. 65-74. 



Lang, W. H. — On the Morphology of Cyathodium. 



[Describes the structure and development of C. fcetidissimum and C. caver- 

 narum. In structure of thallus and antheridium, and in development 

 of sporogonium, the genus is closely related to Targionia. CyatJwdium 

 reveals itself to be a reduced Marchantiaceous form.] 



Ann. of Bot., xix. (1905) pp. 411-26 (2 pis.). 



Lett, H. W. — Notes on some Hepatics of Ulster. 



[Of the species recorded a century ago in Templeton's MS., 13 have been 

 regarded with suspicion ; Lett has rediscovered eight of these, and 

 amplifies Templeton's notes about them. He adds notes on 34 other 

 species found by himself in Ulster, in which province they are rare or 

 had been overlooked.] Irish Naturalist, xiv. (1905) pp. 172-9. 



Lev'ieb, E. — Mnscinee rare e nnove, raccolte in Sardegna dal Dott. Th. Herzog. 

 (New and rare Muscinese, collected in Sardinia by Th. Herzog.) 



[Contains descriptions of three new mosses, and notes on the distribution of 

 the mosses and hepatics in the island.] 



Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital., 1905, pp. 238-41. 



Lewis, J. F.— The Plant Bemains in the Scottish Peat Mosses. Part I. The 

 Scottish Southern Uplands. 



Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, xli. (1905) pp. 699-723 (6 pis.). 



Loitlesbebger, K. — Znr Moosfiora der Oesterreichischen Kiistenlander. (On 

 the moss-flora of the coast-lands of Austria.) 



[List of 109 hepatics ; a supplement to Sendtner's list published in 1848. 

 Aplozia Schiffneri is new.] 



Verh. k.k. zool. bot. Ges., lv. (1905) pp. 475-89. 



Macvicab, S. M.— Census Catalogue of British Hepatics. 



[Compiled for the British Moss Exchange Club ; comprises 70 genera and 

 249 species, classified after Schifmer's scheme. Distribution according 

 to vice-counties, which are 112 in Great Britain and 40 in Ireland. Cat- 

 alogue obtainable from Mr. Ingham, 52 Haxby Road, York.] 



York : 1905, 24 pp. 



Maggi, L. — Gli oochi di alonni Mnschi. (The gemmae of some mosses.) 



Varietas, Milano, 1904, pp. 252-4 ; see also 

 Hedwigia, xliv. (1905) p. 170. 



Mansion, A. — Compte-rendu de T excursion bryologiqne du 16 Octobre 1904, a 

 Pecrot et a Florival. (Report on the bryological excursion to 

 Pecrot and Florival on Oct. 16, 1904.) 



Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique, xlii. 1 (1905) pp. 110-13. 



