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that he has seen original specimens from Muller’s Herbarium at Berlin 
and from the Lorenz Herbarium at Dresden, through the favor of Dr. 
Karl Schliephacke, the Director. Some of the types have been loaned 
from Kew and from the K. K. Nat. Hist. Hof. Museum at Vienna ; 
the Melbourne Museum also has contributed some species. 
There are 102 species of Andreaea described, which with the 
15 European species already enumerated in “Die Europaischen 
Laubmoose,” bring the total number up to 117 as against 105 listed 
by Brotherus in E. & P. Pflanzenfam, and 89 by Paris Index. Of 
these 102 species he states that all but 13 have been described and 
figured from the original specimens and there are three sets of original 
sketches by Robert Brown in the text ! This is a remarkable record 
for the first part and shows a helpful and generous disposition among 
the Bryologists which is encouraging for future work. We can heartily 
commend the descriptions and typography which is clear and well- 
spaced but cannot enthusiastically praise the drawings, which seem 
obscured by too much stippling and pretence at cellular detail. It 
would have been better to omit all unnecessary shading and simply 
give a few cells, accurately drawn, from three parts of the leaf. 
E. G. B. 
DIE MOOSE DES SAREKGEBIRGES. 
By H. W. Arnell (Upsala) and C. Jensen (Hvalso, Danemark), 
• The second and third parts of the Natural History Survey of the 
Sarekgebirges of Swedish-Lapland containing the mosses have just 
been received. They contain 268 pages and 260 species with index 
and supplement with ecological tables by C. Jensen. The sequence 
of families adopted and the nomenclature are mainly those previously 
used by Lindberg in his Musci Scandinavci, and not that of recent 
authors, nor do they follow the recommendation of the Brussels Con- 
gress ; parenthetical citations of Linnaeus and Swartz are used, and 
Georgia, Schistophyllum, Astrophyllum, Sphaerocephalus , Pohlia, Webera, 
Leersia, Mollia, Swartzia, Ditrichum, Oncophorus, Saelania, Weissia, 
Dorcadion, Anoectangium and Fissidens are used in their original and 
primitive sense. Grimmia includes Rhacomitrium, Amblystegium and 
several of the aquatic Hypnaceous genera usually considered distinct. 
Hypnum also is much more comprehensive than modern authors now 
treat it, and takes the original Dillenian sense, being used for Brachy- 
thecium, Eurhynchium and Camptothecium. Some changes to the oldest 
specific names are also notable. A few figures in the text illustrate 
new species or varieties, and in many cases the associated species are 
indicated. Taken as a whole this is a most interesting addition to the 
literature of mosses. 
Elizabeth G. Britton, 
N. Y. Botanical Garden. 
