Fungi, Myxomyceten, Pathologie. — Bryophyten. 
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pres de Covilha. II mesure 31,25 m. de haut, et 5,36 m. de circon- 
ference ä la base du tronc. J. Henriques. 
Torrend, C., Les myxomycetes. Etüde des especes connues 
jusqu’ici. (Broteria. vol. VI. II partie. 1907.) 
Memoire tres complet sur les myxomycetes. L’auteur divise 
ce memoire en trois parties; dans la premiere il fait la description 
de ces plantes en les etudiant dans toutes les phases de leur deve- 
loppement: dans la seconde, il donne des clefs dichotomiques pour la 
determination des familles, des genres et des especes; dans la troi- 
sieme, qui n’est pas encore complete, il fait la description des espe¬ 
ces. Il donne aussi une liste bibliographique tres £tendue. 
J. Henriques. 
Lett, H. W., Mosses in Ireland — A correction. (Irish Na¬ 
turalist, XVI. N°. 11. Dublin: November 1907. p. 348.) 
The author points out that Polytrichum attenuatum Menz. is not 
a rare moss in Ireland, as D. Mjc. Ardle has stated, but is abun¬ 
dant in Co. Down and has been found in eleven other Irish coun- 
ties. A. Gepp. 
Mc. Ardle, D„ Musci and Hepaticae from Co. Mayo. (Irish Na¬ 
turalist. XVI. N°. 11. Dublin, November 1907. p. 332—337.) 
The author describes an expedition made into a remote moun- 
tain district near Lough Corrib, Loughnafooey, the Finny 
River, &c., in the limestone district of Cong is the Pigeon Hole 
Cave, in which Lejeunea Mackaii grows plentifully, and in the 
same cave are Eurhynchium pumilum , E. Teesdalei and E. tenellum. 
At Curranamona was found a small quantity of Andreaea crassi- 
nervia. Though the moss flora is often a poor one, sixty-four species 
and four varieties of mosses, and thirty-eight species and five varie- 
ties of hepatics were collected and are enumerated. A. Gepp. 
Pearson, W. H„ An introduction to the British Hepaticae. 
(Annual Report and Transactions of the Manchester Microscopical 
Society for 1906. (Issued July 24 th 1907) p. 46—53. 1 plate.) 
A plain and easy account of the Hepaticae from the systematic 
point of view. The author briefly treats of their external characters, 
of their rootlets, stem, leaves, inflorescence, perianth, fructification; 
also of their distribution and nomenclature; and he prefaces his 
paper with some remarks upon the principal writers upon or collec- 
tors of British Hepaticae. A. Gepp. 
Stirton, J., New and rare Mosses from the West of Scotland. 
(The Annals of Scottish Natural History. N°. 63. Edinburgh. July r 
1907. p. 171 — 180.) 
The author gives an account of some interesting mosses mostly 
collected at or near Arisaig, describing the following new species 
and a variety Dicraniim leiophyllum , Trichostomum episeminn, Bar- 
bala limosella, Schistidium nodulosum, Grimmia polita, Rhacomi- 
trium consocians, R. divergens, Bartramia subvirella, Pohlia teuer - 
rima, Oligotrichum exiguum, O. hercynicum var. fastigiatum, Hypnum 
