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4. Diplazium (potius Asplenium) Schkuhrii, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. 



Bot. iii. p. 407. Asplenium ambiguum, Schkuhr, Fil. p. 69. t. 75 



(not t. 75 B, and not Sw.). Diplazium Malaccense, Presl, EpimeL 



Bot. p. 86. 



Hab. Koo-long-loo Island and Tung-Ian, Mr. Alexander. Lung- 

 ton g, mainland, fifteen miles north-west of Victoria, Hongkong; ele- 

 vation of about 200 feet, J. C. Bowring, Esq., n. 27, Mr. Braine. 



This appears entirely to agree with one of the figures of Schkuhr's 

 Asplenium ambiguum, and Vhich Mr. J. Smith has called B. Schkuhrii. 

 It seems identical with Cuming's n. 389 and 390, from Malacca, which 

 is D. Malaccense of Presl. 



(To be continued.) 



BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Mr. Charles Wright 



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Wright 



United States of America, with his well-prepared collections of plants 

 from the less-frequented and mountainous parts of Cuba, of which 

 however only 12 sets are to be disposed of, varying, we believe, from 

 500 to 900 species, including an excellent series of Ferns, but exclu- 

 sive of the Mosses and lower Crypts, which are to be separately issued 

 after naming. They will be distributed with numbers, be named by Dr. 

 Grisebach, and offered at, we believe, the usual rate of well-selected 

 collections — about £2 the 100 species. The Ferns and even the suc- 

 culent Pipe?-ace(Z are beautifully prepared. 



Mr. Chas. Wright on Drying Plants for the Herbarium. 



A botanical voyager and traveller, whose explorations have extended 

 over a large portion of the new United States' territories (New Mexico, 



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quently entitles him to attention, and whose specimens confirm the ex- 

 cellence of his practice, suggests improvements in the ordinary method 

 practised by the English botanists in drying plants for the herbarium. 



