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A preliminary list of 22 bryophytes growing in the Batumi Botanical garden is provided. From chorological point of view, temperate and boreo-temperate taxa prevail while with regard to ecological behaviour, mesophilous taxa are the most numerous and with respect to light requirements equivalently sciaphilous and eliophilous taxa are represented The mosses Fissidens dubius and Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides are recorded for the first time in Georgia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article different species of bryophyte species. Topics include Andreaea flexuosa moss flora found in Alberto de Agostini National Park, Monte Buckland, Chile; Atrichum tenellum found in Black Sea coast on wet sandy soil humus in steppe; and Bazzania flaccida herbarium found in alpine grassland with Polytrichum–Sphagnum hummock.

Some interesting moss records in Pollino National Park, noteworthy protected area of the south- ern Apennines, are reported. Among them, Mnium spinosum and Brachythecium tommasinii are new to southern Italian peninsula, Grimmia laevigata, G. montana, G. tergestina, G. trichophyl- la and Orthotrichum pumilum are new to Basilicata region, and, finally, Campylidium sommer- feltii is rare in southern Italy and little known in Mediterranean area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]