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WHILE many writers have published works on the anatomy and taxonomy of mosses, Prof. Th. Herzog has struck out on a new line in his recently published volume and given an account of their geographical distribution together with that of the Hepaticae. He has done for the mosses what Dr. H. Christ did for the ferns in his “Geographie der Fame.” Unlike the older writers on plant distribution, he does not give his results in statistical tables but follows the examples of Prof. E. Warming in his “Oecology of Plants,” and in the first 74 pages gives an interesting account of the factors, both internal and external, which influence the choice of a habitat, and distinguishes between distribution by spores and by asexual vegetative means. By this method it becomes easy to realise why some species have a wide range while others are confined to a restricted area.
Geographie der Moose.
Von Prof. Dr. Th. Herzog. Pp. xi + 439 + 8 Tafeln. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1926.) 27 gold marks.
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W., C. [Book Reviews]. Nature 118, 260 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118260a0
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