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TWO REVIEWS OF JAPANESE MOSSES 



John M. Holzinger 



1. Ishibaea, novum Brachytheciacearum genus ex Japonia, elab. V. F. Bro- 

 therus et Shutai Okamura. Reprinted from the "Botanical Magazine, Tokyo, 

 Vol. xxix, No. 346." 



This article, establishing a new genus of Brachytheciaceae, indigenous to 

 Japan, deserves special review in the Bryologist. The description is, for- 

 tunately, in Latin. The affinity of the genus is with Homalothecium from which 

 it differs in inflorescence, in the slenderness of all parts, in the leaves not folded, 

 and in the structure of the peristome. 



The excellent drawings for the plate illustrating the article were made by 

 Prof. Shutai Okamura, of the Botanic Garden at Tokyo. The generic name is 

 given in honor of Prof. Eikichi lishiba, an able student of the moss-flora of 

 Japan. 



2. Prof. Okamura also transmits two other reprints, the deciphering of 

 of which is not so happily accomplished, for the numerous perpendicular col- 

 umns of beautiful, closely-crowded characters, looking like hieroglyphics, are 

 only sparingly interlined with some German sentences, and names of mosses, 

 and one new liverwort, Aplozia towadaensis Sh. Okamura, n. sp. Prof. Okamura's 

 German is good, save in the title of the paper, which doubtless is intended to 

 read: "Ueber einige Arten von Bryophyten aus gewissen Seehoeden in Japan." 

 This, translated, means, "Concerning some species of Bryophytes from certain 

 lake bottoms in Japan." In the course of the learned Japanese treatise the 

 author evidently refers to an article "in dem Botanischen Zentralblatt " dis- 

 cussing the moss flora in the lake bottoms of Lake Geneva and Lake Constance. 

 After enumerating some twenty species of mosses — which one hesitatingly guesses 

 may be species common to the lakes of Switzerland and Japan (but another guess 

 may be due!) — the author announces " Bryhnia Nakanoi Sh. Okamura. n. sp.," 

 charmingly describing it in his strictly inimitable Japanese style. Some day the 

 readers of the Bryologist will doubtless be favored by Prof. Okamura with a 

 translation of this Rising Sun description in some Setting Sun speech. 



In the second paper on this subject (Der zweite Bericht) the author seems 

 to discuss principally the occurrence in certain Japanese lake bottoms of a 

 hepatic, Chiloscyphus rivularis (Schrad.) Loeske. 



DUPLICATES FROM THE HASSE LICHEN HERBARIUM 



The Lichen Herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society has been most beauti- 

 fully remembered by Mrs. H. E. Hasse, the widow of our late Curator Upon 

 the assumption by the Society of the transportation charges only, Mrs. Hasse 

 has given to the Society all the duplicates of Dr. Hasse's great herbarium, num- 

 bering many thousands of specimens. All of the material is now in the hands of 

 the present Curator, who takes this opportunity to express the hearty apprecia- 



