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In Broteria Senhor Sampaio contributes a second series of lichen notes^ on 

 fifty different species, with additional locaHties for certain species of his earlier 

 list, already noted in the Bryologist 19: 95 (1916). New species or varieties 

 are described, but not figured, in Calicium, Lecanora (2), Pertusaria, and Lecidea. 

 A list of thirty species is also given whose occurrence is reported but of which 

 specimens are not forthcoming. 



In the same issue of Broteria there is a list^ of 29 Bryophytes that are re- 

 ported as new for the Portuguese flora. Hyophila crenulata is described as new, 

 and also a new variety, var. elongata, of Grimmia leucophaea. 



There are also among the bibliographical notices in this same number of 

 Broteria two notes by Father Luisier upon recent published catalogues of Portu- 

 guese hepatics and lichens. 



In the July number of Torreya Mr. Burnham and Mr. Latham^ issue the 

 first supplement to their list of the plants growing in the town of Southold and 

 the adjacent Gardiner's Island. The list includes all forms of plant growth, 

 from insect galls to the composites. Six species and three varieties of lichens, 

 twelve species of hepatics, and nine of mosses are given as additions. The 

 article in the September number includes a correction of one hepatic record in 

 the July list. The original list was published in 1914, in Torreya. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 



Unusual Habitat for Catharinea crispa. — Mr. A. T. Beals writes that 

 last September (19 16) he collected some fine specimens of Catharinea crispa 

 James on Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts, within two hundred feet of the top. 

 The moss was not in fruit but it was abundant in the little grassy waterway 

 where it grew. Mt. Greylock is stated to be over 3500 feet in height, so that 

 such a habitat is probably quite unusual for C. crispa, which has been collected 

 mostly in swamps and along streams fairly near sea-level. 



Fontinalis gigantea twenty-eight inches long.— Speaking of the speci- 

 mens of Fontinalis gigantea which he offered for exchange in the Bryologist 

 for March, 1917, Mr. A. T. Beals wrote: "The specimens are quite robust and 

 one stem measured twenty-eight inches in length. Many were more than twenty 

 inches long. They were collected at Hoboken, N. J., in early December, 19 16." 



Mosses as travertine builders. — Dr. W. H. Emig has returned to the 

 University of Pittsburgh, after another summer of botanizing in the Arbuckle 

 Mountains, Oklahoma, and has brought back with him some fine specimens of 

 travertine formed on different species of aquatic mosses. We hope eventually 

 to publish a paper from him. 



^ Liquenes novos para a flora portuguesa. Gor.galo Sampaio. Broteria. 15: 12-29. (1917,) 

 2 Notas de briologia portuguesa: plantas novas para Portugal. Antonio Machado. Broteria. 

 15: 8-01. (1917.) 



^ S. H. Burnham and Roy A. Latham. The Flora of the Town of Southold, Long Island, and 

 Gardiner's Island. Torreya. 17: 111-122. July, 1917; and Corrections to the Flora of the Town 

 of Southold. Torreya. 17: 164. Sept., 1917. 



