BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 453 
servation of the date: ‘‘1900” on wrapper is not sufficient. 
could have dispensed with the illustrations, ééneciaily some familiar 
blocks es aoe habit which oa a whole page. 
should be fully dated in a way which — necessitate the pre- 
e 
the particular groups to which the plant belongs; and it is hoped 
that by so doing the weakest point in the Club’s work during pre- 
vious years has been remedied. According to the —. the con- 
Book,” as well as, apparently, a complete list of all the species with 
localities distributed. Among the more interesting plants which 
have been commented upon by various members are—Dicranella 
Schreberi var. elata, Dicranodontium longirostre var. alpinum, Grimmia 
arenaria, Weisia crispata, Weisia rupestris bow intermedia, Webera- 
annotina, Amblystegium Serphus var. depauperata, Hypnum hamulosum 
ond H, callichroum, and Fissidens ondnenaifeli The Club now 
ontains some thirty-four mem ers, which is as many as can 
pap BE be worked; but a beginner's section has just been 
commenced, w 
society , will shoontage pegtaner and help to wad ae ae the 
procured. In the present reports we notice again the severe in- 
difference with which bryologists regard certain ses the laws of 
nomenclature, and particularly that on the abbreviation of authors’ 
names; for example, Who is intended by the cbbeviatiin Lidb.? 
Is it Ledebour, Lindberg, Lindeberg, Lindenberg, or who is it? 
Who are intended by the mysterious combinations of consonants 
Schp., Schpr., Spr., Schwg., Schwgr.? If a name requires abbre- 
viation at all (a two-syllable word of only five letters would hardly 
require to be shortened), the rule to be observed 2 ‘the first 
syllable and the first t letter of the following one, or the first two 
letters, if they are both consonants "—e. g. Schimp. he Schimper ; 
Rich. for Richard. 
3. Groves rete — the second fasciculus of. their 
admirable Chibi Britannice Exsiccate, which contains thirty 
numbers, representing the tllowias species :—Chara fragilis Desv., 
C. aspera Willd., C. aspera subsp. desmacantha, C. baltica Bruzel 
var. afinis, C. contraria Kuetz., C. tomentosa L., C. hispida x con 
traria, C. hispida L., C. Braunii Gmel., Lamprothamnus alopecieviides 
