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Charcot Mission, and the ' Scotia,' as well as those collected at Geikie 

 Land by Borchgrevinck. Form all these collections he finds that 46 

 species actually occur in the Antarctic region proper, and he notes that 

 of all the specimens examined only 4 were in fruit and 2 bore inflor- 

 escences ; all the rest were absolutely sterile. The 40 species are divided 

 between 13 families, of which the best represented is Bryaceae. The 

 endemic genus, Sarconeurwn, is represented by the single species 

 S. glaciate, which occurs at the two widely distant localities of Cockburn 

 Island and Geikie Land. Twenty-two species are peculiar to the 

 Antarctic region, and only 12, which are almost all cosmopolitan, are 

 recorded also as Arctic species, though several Antarctic mosses are very 

 closely related to already known Arctic forms. Altitude of habitat 

 seems to have no appreciable influence on the distribution. 



Arctic Mosses.* — P. Dusen publishes an account of the mosses of 

 East Greenland and Jan Mayen, gathered by himself on Nathorst's ex- 

 pedition. In 1874, some 71 species were recorded from East Greenland ; 

 and this total was raised to 194 in 1891 by Hartz's collection, to which 

 Dusen has now added 24 species, including 3 Bryums new to science. 

 In Jan Mayen he also discovered 2 new species of Bryum. In the 

 introduction the general aspect of the moss-flora of the region, and the 

 special characters of the localities explored by him, are discussed. 



Mosses of Asia. — V. F. Brotherus f contributes some notes on the 

 moss-flora of Eastern Asia, namely East Siberia, Mongolia, and China, 

 with a list of species collected by J. Palibin in 1889, and by others. The 

 species, with the exception of six, are found also in Europe. 



E. G. Paris| gives a list of 23 mosses and 1 hepatic collected in China, 

 Saigon, Singapore, and Ceylon, by an engineer and a missionary. Four 

 new species are described : Campylopus singaporensis Fleisch., Leskea 

 scabrinervis Broth, et Par., Rhynchostegium brevipes Broth, et Par., and 

 Hylocomium isopterygioides Broth, et Par. The distribution of some of 

 the other species is enlarged by the collections here recorded. 



Mosses of Hungary.§ — I. Gyorffy continues his contributions to the 

 bryology of the Hohe-Tatra mountains, and in the present paper he 

 deals with the following species, on which he makes critical remarks : 

 Hymenostomum squamosum Bryol. germ., Fissidens decipiens De Not., 

 Schistidium alpicolum Limpr., Leptobryum pyriforme Schimp., and Poly- 

 trichum alpinum L. nov. var. flavisetum. This new variety resembles 

 var. arcticum Brid., but differs from it and from typical P. alpinum in 

 having a seta which is light lemon-yellow throughout its whole length. 



Spanish Mosses. || — A. Casares Gil describes the mosses found by 

 him on the mountain of Montserrat. He says they are very abundant, 

 the commonest being Hypnum molluscum and Neckera crispa. Twenty 

 species of hepaticse are recorded, and 63 mosses. To this list are added 



* Beih. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., xxvii. pt. 3, i. (1901) 71 pp., 2 pis., map, 

 and figs. 



t Trav. Troitz. Kiakhta Amour Soc. Imp. Russ. Geogr., vii. (1904) pp. 10-19. 



I Rev. Bryolog., xxxiii. (1906) pp. 25-27. 



§ Magyar Bot. Lapok., v. (1906) pp. 25-31 (1 pi.). 



|| Boll. R. Soc. Espaii. Nat. Hist. Madrid, v. (1905) pp. 459-64. 



