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1922 The Bryologist  
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more » ... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. -93quite declined to submit to any cut and dried rules of morphology even for its own characters; the leaf margins were sometimes erect, sometimes recurved; usually entire or nearly so, but here and there subdenticulate, and generally showing some signs pointing that way, as if, as Mr. Chamberlain suggests, they were "cutting their teeth." The apex was mostly very obtuse, but here and there tapering, the cell structure equally variable, often showing distinct traces of a border, but very frequently (on the same stem) without any; in fact the plant showed in all directions a callous disregard for the convenience of taxonomists. Pottia Heimii var. behringiana Card. & Ther. has the same short capsule, bluntish leaves, and tendency to a border, but the leaves are normally toothed and less obtuse. P. heimioides Kindb. has the leaves short and obtuse, but the capsule longer and cylindric, &c. P. Heimii var. obtusifolia (R. Br.) Hag. (Syn. P. Ryani Philib.) is perhaps the nearest form, but that very marked plant has broader and shorter leaves, with plane margins, with more abbreviated characters generally of both gametophyte and sporophyte. On the whole it appears better to consider the Ata plant as a remarkable form of P. Heimii with a considerable approach to var. obtusifolia (R. Br.) Hag. NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND NOTES A recent issue of the Revue bryologique reports the death, in January, 192 1, of Sign. Egidio Corti, who was a member of the Sullivant Moss Society from 1909 to 1916. Sign. Corti was a critical student of the Italian mosses, and had also investigated those of Ecuador. We understand his herbarium is for sale. The same issue of the Revue mentions the death of L'abbe Faurie, well known for his explorations in Japan and Corea. No details are given. We are informed that the Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft of Vienna is prepared to sell a collection containing some 12,ooo specimens of mosses, more than I,ooo species of European material, all well prepared specimens collected by such bryologists, among others, as Schimper, Wilson, Lindberg, Juratzka, Molendo, etc. There are also many numbers from old and rare Exisccati, e.g. Bryotheca Europaea. Offers should be sent directly to Dr. Hans Neumeyer, Secretary, at Mechelgasse 3. Wein, III/3, Austria. Fascicle Nineteen of Mr. John M. Holzinger's Musci A crocarpi Boreali-A mericani, sent out May I9th 1922, appears hard on the heels of the eighteenth fascicle, which was noticed in the March, 1922, issue of THE BRYOLOGIST. As will be seen from the subjoined list, the specimens come mainly from the West and South; three numbers represent European collections, which we trust may in time be supplemented with American material. Number 452, Amphidium Mougeotii, is from the type locality; number 473 is a portion of Ravenel's original collection. If we might suggest, the completion of this important series of North American mosses can be very greatly aided and hastened if collectors and students will send to Mr. Holzinger for lists of species already issued. Such a course will
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