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fine figure, of Brachymenium lusitanicum (Luis.) Hag. n. sp., a representative of a 

 tropical genus that forms an interesting addition to the number of outliers which 

 have been discovered in Europe within the past decade; Notes upon nine species 

 that are new to the moss flora of Spain. 



In the last issue of Broteria, Father Luisier continues these notes. The first 

 note describes and figures a new and remarkable species of Andreaea, A. crassi- 

 folia Luis., which seems to have its affinities with the species of the Southern Hem- 

 isphere belonging to the Section Enerviae of the Subgenus Euandreaea. A very de- 

 tailed description of the plants is given, two localities, one Spanish, the other Por- 

 tuguese, and a plate of the details of a fruiting plant. The remainder of Father 

 Luisier's article deals with a list of Spanish or Portuguese localities for nearly 

 ninety species of Acrocarps (the Pleurocarps will follow in the next issue) repre- 

 senting the "debris" as the author puts it, saved from his extensive collections 

 .and those at the College de Campolida when the latter was ransacked at the 

 founding of the Republic. The greater part of the list is merely a catalogue of 

 localities with a few notes upon relative abundance, but more extended mention 

 is made of Tortula Solmsii (Schimp.) Roth, Fissidens serrulatus Brid., Grimmia 

 irichophylla Grev., va,v Lisae (de Not.) Bottini, Rhacomitrium aciculare (L.) Brid., 

 Rh. microcarpon Brid., and Philonotis calcarea. Aiilacomnium palustre (L.) 

 Schwaegr. var. cincinnatulum Luis., is described as new. E. B. C. 



Hepaticae Presented to the New York Botanical Garden by Miss 

 Haynes. — We learn from the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden that 

 in connection with the Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, Miss Caroline Coventry Haynes presented to that institution 

 the collection of Hepaticae which she had purchased from Dr. M. A. Howe in 

 1909. The collection contained much European material and was especially 

 rich in Californian species, including most of the specimens cited in Dr. Howe's 

 "The Hepaticae and Anthocerotales of California." The collection included 

 altogether about 1850 pockets. O. E. J. 



In the February number of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (43: 

 63-81. PI. I.) under the title, "New and Rare African Mosses from Mitten's 

 Herbarium," Mr. H. N. Dixon describes ten new species from various parts of 

 Africa, ranging from Kilimanjaro to the Cape. There are also notes, critical or 

 descriptive, upon twenty other species, and one new combination. A new sec- 

 tion, Gymno-ischryodon, is proposed in Fahronia. All but one of the new species 

 are illustrated in the accompaning plate. E. B. C. 



In the March issue of Torreya (16: 67-70. fig. i.) Dr. Evans describes and 

 figures Metzgeria grandiflora, a new species from the Galapagos Islands. Ac- 

 cording to a note by the author this is the first species of the Metzgeriaceae to be 

 reported from the islands. E. B. C. 



An interesting paper on "Ceylonese Mosses" appeared in the Journal of 

 Botany, Sept.-Oct., 1915, by Mr. H. N. Dixon, this being an account of a coUec- 

 vtion of over 400 numbers secured by the Rev. C. H. Binstead during February 



