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for the combination. Such an omission means long searching of literature 
in order to find out whether the combination be “new” or not. The general 
absence of synonyms is of little importance in the main, especially for those 
having access to standard works, but we feel sure that in all cases the binomial 
authority would have greatly facilitated reference to these other books. 
Edward B. Chamberlain 
NOTES ON CURRENT BRYOLOGICAL LITERATURE 
A. LeRoy Andrews, Bryological Notes. V. — Scapania nimbosa from Nor- 
way. Torreya 19: 49-51. (1919). — Scapania nimbosaTscyX. has previously been 
known only from the western coasts of the British Isles. It is one of the so called 
“Atlantic species” which seem to be relicts from an older flora. In 1907 Dr 
Andrews and Herr B. Kaalaas discovered the species in the Tverfjeldene in 
Romsdalamt, Norway, although at the time the material was determined and 
reported as Scapania planifolia (Hook.) Dum. 
Edo Claassen, Mosses of several Ohio counties. Ohio Journ. Sci. 19: 
362-366. (1919). — Mr. Claassen lists 5 Sphagna besides 72 acrocarpous and 79 
pleurocarpous mosses from certain counties, mostly in northern Ohio. The only 
notes given refer to the substratum and, by abbreviation, to the counties in 
which collection was made without more definite locality. Several of the species 
reported seem additions to the list given by Kellerman and Werner in the Cata- 
logue of Ohio Plants issued in 1895. It seems a pity that more careful proof 
reading could not have obviated the errors in the spelling of specific names. 
Alexander W. Evans, A taxonomic study of Dumortiera. Bull. Torrey 
Club 46: 167-182. (1919). — Dr. Evans gives an outline of the history of the genus 
and of the species belonging to it, with a citation of 26 titles in a bibliography. 
A much more extended discussion is given of the morphology and of the characters 
of systematic value in limiting the species. Two species are recognized: D. 
hirsuta (Sw.) Nees (including D. irrigua Nees) which ranges, in the United States, 
from Pennsylvania and Missouri southward; and D. nepalenis (Tayl.) Nees 
(including D. velutina Schiffn. and D. calcicola Campb.) which has been reported 
in the United States only from Georgia and Florida, though widely distributed 
in the West Indies, northern South America and the far East. 
A. Luisier. Les Mousses de Madere. Broteria 17: 28-48. (Ap. 1919). 
A continuation of the articles upon the mosses of Madera which have been prev- 
iously noticed in The Bryologist. The present instalment covers the species 
from Cinclidotus to Amphidium. Extensive notes are given for Cinclidotus 
chloronotus (Bruch.) Limpr., Tortula Solmsii (Schimp.) Limpr., T. perlimbata Geh., 
T. marginata (Bry. Eur.) Spruce, Anoectangium angustifolium Mitt., and 
A. curvipes (C. M.) Jaeg. Apparently, two new combinations are made in 
Grimmia. 
E. B. C. 
