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to be identical with European H. fallax var. spinifolium, we should be inclined, 

 in view of the confusion about these species in this country, to withhold judg- 

 ment until actual comparison of the types is made. 



Edward B. Chamberlain 



REVIEW 



Hepatics of Iberia (Spain and Portugal) 



A. Casares-Gil: Flora Iberica. Briofitas, Primera Parte. Hepa- 

 TICAS. [Pp. 775, about 400 figures (half-tones of well executed original drawings), 

 and 4 colored plates.] Mus. Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. 1919. 

 [In Spanish.] 



This first comprehensive work on the Hepatics of the Iberian peninsula is 

 well published as to illustrations and general typography. The Prologue and 

 General Introduction of several pages is followed by 174 pages of general treat- 

 ment of more than twenty topics, such as Characters differentiating Hepatics 

 from Mosses, Cells, Protonema, Frond and Thallus, Rhizoids, Vegetative and 

 Growing Points, Branching, etc. Ecology and Geographic Distribution here 

 take up about 40 pages, treating of the relation of hepatics to substratum, 

 humidity, latitude, and temperature, and, finally, 9 pages are devoted to Col- 

 lection, Study, and Preservation of Specimens. 



In the descriptive part of the book Schiffner (Engler & Prantl: Natuer- 

 lichen Pflanzenfamilien) is followed pretty closely and many species are included 

 which have not yet been reported in Spain or Portugal, e. g., Neesiella 'rupestris. 



Apparently new combinations are: Calycularia Flotowiana (Nees), (Palla- 

 vicinia Floiowii Lindb.); Haplozia Muelleriana (Schiffn.), (Nardia Muelleriana 

 Schiffn.); Haplozia paroica (Schiffn.), {Nardia paroica Schifin.); Haplozia 

 subelliptica (Lindb.), (Nardia subelliptica Lindb.). 



Among the generally less familiar combinations it may be noted that 

 Pallavicinia hibernica and P. Blyttii are treated under Calycularia; Nardia com- 

 pressa, N. Breidleri, N. scalaris, and N. Geoscyphus are under the genus Alicu- 

 laria; N. hyalina, N. obovata, N. crenulata, and Jungermannia caespiticia, J. 

 sphaerocarpa, J. cordifolia, J. riparia, J. atrovirens, J. pumila, J. Schiffneri, and 

 /. lanceolata are placed in Haplozia; JamesonieUa autumnalis D. C. [p. p.] is 

 here subapicaHs (Nees) Schiffn.; Sphenolobus minutus, S. exsectus, and 5. ex- 

 sectaeformis are under Lophozia; Lophozia attenuata is treated as L. gracilis 

 (Schleich.) Steph.; L. Baueriana Schiffn. is used instead of Jungermannia Hatch' 

 eri Evans (?) ; /. Hornschuchiana is treated as a synonym of L. bantryensis 

 (Hook.) Steph.; Pedinophyllum interruptum is placed under Plagiochila; Mylia 

 Taylori and anomala are under Leioscyphus; Chiloscyphus rivularis, fragilis, and 

 pallescens are treated as varieties of C. polyanthus; Cephaloziella byssacea is put 

 under C. Starkei (Funck) Schiffn., with a variety papulosa (C. papiHosa), and 

 C. bifida becomes here C. rubella (Nees) Warnst ; Cephalozia curvifolia is treated 



