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LIST OF FRENCH HEPATICAE COLLECTED BY MAJOR GEORGE H. 
CONKLIN, M. R. C. 
Caroline C. Haynes 
The following species of Hepaticae were collected in quantity at Malavieux, 
near Vichy, on September 15 and December 1, by Major Conklin while on leave; 
and I have had the pleasure of naming and placing a set of them in the Sullivant 
Moss Society Herbarium: 
Metzgeria furcata (L.) Dumort. 
Marsupella emarginata (Ehrh.) Dumort. 
Lophozia barbata (Schreb.) Dumort. 
“ quinquedentata (Huds.) Cogn. 
Plagiochila asplenioides (L.) Dumort. 
Lophocolea cuspidata (Nees) Limpr. 
Diplophyllum albicans (L.) Dumort. 
Scapania comp acta (Roth) Dumort. 
“ nemorosa (L.) Dumort., a single plant. 
Porella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb. 
Lejeunea cavifolia (Ehrh.) Lindb. 
Frullania Tamarisci (L.) Dumort. 
Highlands, N. J. 
REVIEW 
Mosses of Madagascar 
A. & G. Grandidier, Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Mada- 
gascar. Volume XXXIX. Histoire naturelle des plantes; Mousses, par MM. 
F. Renauld et J. Cardot. 
This monumental work has already been referred to in The Bryologist 
(XIX, 75, 1916) by its junior and surviving author. It comprises three large 
volumes or “parts,” two of plates bearing dates of 1898 and 1901, and one of 
text dated 1915. To the species of Renauld’s “Prodrome” of 1897 and its 
“Supplement” of 1909 a few have been added. Under the separate species 
are comparative notes, often of considerable length. A short introduction deals 
with the essential phytogeographical facts. It has long been known that both 
the fauna and flora of Madagascar show a high degree of independence even 
from those of the not distant African continent, but that the moss-vegetation 
should show an endemism of 347 out of 540 species or over 63 per cent. (p. 8) 
impresses one as incredible; doubtless further collection and study will reduce 
rather than increase this proportion. The closest relationship, apart from that 
with other islands east of Africa, is with the mountainous regions of tropical 
Africa. Bryological investigation of the island has, however, not reached the 
point where the present list can hope to approach completeness. 
