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plants, which I accepted with some hesitation, have proved to be among the most 

 interesting things in the distribution. It is regrettable that members living in 

 the lowlands should so readily decide that their mosses are of 'no use to the Club' 

 and I hope that next year they will overcome their bashfulness, and let us have 

 their plants for comparison." 



We gain from the report that there were gotten together for distribution, 

 for 19 16, a total of 382 species and varieties of mosses and hepatics, — altogether 

 a total of 2,084 packets. The organization, which has a membership of forty-four, 

 is to be congratulated upon its success and it is to be hoped that nothing will 

 prevent a successful continuance of the work 



The Secretary of the Club, Mr. Wm. Ingham, notes in the report that in 

 order to obviate the difficulty of having two systems of naming Sphagna, Mr. 

 Wheldon has undertaken to draw up a new Sphagnum Catalogue based upon 

 Warnstorf's monumental work, Sphagnologia Universalis, and, to make the 

 catalogue more interesting and useful, there will be given short descriptions of 

 the difficult species, varieties, and forms, such as those in the Subsecunda group. 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



BORNEAN MOSSES (A REVIEW) 



On a collection of Bornean Messes made by the Rev. C. H. Binstead. By 

 H. N. Dixon, M. A., F. L. S. 



This is an extract from the Linnean Society's Journal, Botany, Vol. XLIII, 

 July, 1916. It covers 32 pages and is accompanied by two plates. Of the 138 

 species and varieties reported, seventeen are new. In the introductory note the 

 author indicates the interesting fact that in this, and doubtless in all tropical 

 areas, the moss vegetation of the jungle is confined to the tops of high trees, where 

 it has some measure of access to the sunlight. In these lofty canopies of the 

 jungle occurs a moss flora almost entirely different from that which is accessible 

 to the ordinary collector who proceeds on foot and collects on or near the ground. 

 This jungle flora becomes accessible only when trees are felled for economic pur- 

 poses. Mr. Binstead collected only on the ground, and his finds include only 

 five species of thirty-one recorded for Mt. Kinabalu by Mitten and Wright. 



The new species and varieties described in this paper are: 



1. Fissidens autoicus Ther. et Dixon; 



2. Syrrhopodon tmchyphyllus, Mont., suhsp. albifrons Ther. et Dixon, subsp. 



nov. ; 



3. Syrrhopodon ledruanus C. Muell., MS in litt. ad E. Levier; with a variety 

 involutus Ther. et Dixon; 



4. Syrrhopodon patulifolius Ther. et Dixon ; 



5. Syrrhopodon binsteadii Ther. et Dixon; 



6. Syrrhopodon tuberculosus Ther. et Dixon; 



7. Calymperes subsalakense Ther. et Dixon; 



8. Trichostomum sarawakense Dixon; 



