SPHAGNUM TORREYANUM, SULLIVANT, IN BRITAIN, 

 By H. Boswell. 



This moss, which appears in Braithwaite's Sphagnacese as Sph. cnspi-- 

 dutmn, variety Torreyl, has heretofore escaped notice in Europe, but 

 during a ramble this summer I fell in with it in the neighbourhood of 

 Whitchurch, Shropshire, and it may be looked for in wet bogs in 

 other parts of the country, when better known. Its aspect is that of 

 very tall and robust cuspidatum, and it is doubtless rightly placed as a 

 variety of that species. 



My specimens agree exactly with American ones, and also with the 

 figure and description of S. Mendocinum, in SuUivant's Icones, which 

 Braithwaite unites to Torreyammi ; but Ran and Harvey in their 

 catalogue of the mosses of North America, treat the latter as distinct. 

 It appears to have been found only in California, and I have not seen 

 it, but probably specimens would show its identity with TorreyoAium. 



The most striking features are, the large size, very long stout stems, 

 large triangular stem-leaves, and long semi-tubular branch-leaves, 



Oxford, Oct. 12th, 1882, 



NEW AND CRITICAL EUROPEAN MOSSES. 



By G. Limpeicht. 



(Translated.) 



In the German magazine, " Flora," No. 13, 1882, are a few notes on 

 some new and critical mosses, by Gustav Limpricht ; as they are 

 species nearly related to our British ones, a translation of Herr 

 Limpricht's notes may be of interest, in calling the attention of our 

 British muscologists to these species, which should be looked for here. 



Bypnum (Limnobium) styriactim, n, sp. — Synoicous ; in extensive, 

 depressed, soft cushions of a sordid-, yellowish-, or golden-brown- 

 green colour, stem filiform, very slender, up to 8 cm. long, procum- 

 bent, rootless, almost simple or repeatedly furcate, at the base destitute 

 of leaves ; branches irregular, slender and flaccid, rootless ; leaves 

 loosely disposed, standing-off" erect on all sides, almost spoonlike- 

 concave, slightly longitudinally-plicate, from sub-cordate to ovate, with 

 a slightly decurrent base, gradually narrowed to a somewhat reflexed 

 lanceolate point, margin entire ; nerve firm, furcate, the longest arm 



N.S., Vol. viii., Nov., 1882. 



