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flora, and then gives an enumeration with localities of all the mosses 

 hitherto recorded for North Yorkshire, following Braithwaite's system 

 of classification. The sphagna and hepatics are treated in similar 

 fashion, Horrell's and Pearson's plans of arrangement being followed 

 respectively. 



German Mosses. — A. Geheeb* publishes notes on an arboreal form 

 of Gymnostomum rupestre, on a short-leaved form of Dicranoiveisia 

 crispula, on some rare mosses of the Rhoengebirge, on his projected 

 "Bryologia Atlantica," on the recently deceased moss-expert, Rudolph 

 Ruthe, who collected in Prussia, and devoted himself especially to 

 FontiaaUs and Bryum. 



C. Laubingerf publishes some additions to the moss-flora of Nieder- 

 hessen and Miinden, which form the first appendix to a treatise published 

 in 1903. A number of rare mosses have been found in fruit. FonUnalis 

 dolosa Cardot is recorded. In a second paper the same author enumer- 

 ated the mosses in Pfeiffer's herbarium at Cassel. 



Mosses of Mark Brandenburg.:}: — C. Warnstorf continues his 

 publication on this subject, thereby finishing his account of the 

 Muscineae of this province, the fruit of some five years' close labour. 

 The present part carries on the work from Plagiothecium to the end, and 

 closes with supplements to the first and second volumes. The first 

 volume, published in 1903, contained the Hepaticse and Sphagnaceae. 

 The descriptions of the species are long and detailed, and each is 

 followed by an abundance of distributional and biological notes. Elabo- 

 rate keys to the families, genera, and species are provided, and important 

 characters are illustrated by figures. The author has discarded the old 

 divisions of acrocarpous and pleurocarpous mosses, preferring to follow 

 Fleischer's system which is founded on the structure of the peristome, 

 the main groups being Haplolepideae and Diplolepideaa ; but he retains 

 the Cleistocarpi for practical reasons. 



Austrian Mosses. § — J. Glowacki makes additions to the moss-flora 

 of Bosnia, Herzegowina, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, as the result of 

 collections made by himself in those countries. The mosses are grouped 

 together under the name of the locality in which they were found. 

 Some of the species were already recorded, but they are included in the 

 list, thus making it more or less complete ; 172 species and varieties are 

 new records for the localities in question, and of these, 2 species and 1 

 variety are new to science. The nomenclature followed is that of 

 Limpricht in the new edition of Rabenhorst's " Kryptogamenflora," 

 Bd. iv. 



Antarctic Mosses. || — J. Cardot has determined the mosses collected 

 by the 'Charcot' Expedition to the Antarctic in 1898. Three localities 

 have furnished all the specimens — namely, the Islands of Wiencke, 



* Rev. Bryolog., xxxiii. (1906) pp. 42-4. 



t Abh. Ber. Verein. Nat. Cassel, xlix. (1905) pp. 50-80, 81-102. 



X Kryptogamenflora d. Mark Brandenburg, Abt. 1 ii. (1906) pp. 833-1160 (figs.) 



§ Verb. k.k. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien, liv. (1906) pp. 186-207. 



|| Rev. Bryolog , xxxiii. (1906) pp. 33-5. 



