22i BOTANICAL. NEWS. 



of the imdergronnd portions of the axis in Monocotyledons ; and 

 on critical European botany. ThiJoa, Eichl. (Combretacecc), and 

 Irmischia, Schlecht. [AsdepiadeiB], preserve his name, but neither 

 are maintained in the ' Genera Plantarum.' 



Edouaed Spach was a native of Strassburg, where he was 

 born in 1801. He is best known as the author of the 'Phane- 

 rogames,' which occupy fourteen volumes of the work called 

 ' Suites a Buflbn,' and were published at Paris, 1834-48. In 

 conjunction with the late Count Jaubert he issued a magnificent 

 work on the plants of Asia Minor, with 500 plates, ' Illustrationes 

 Plantarum Orientalium,' in five volumes, from 1842 to 1857. For 

 many years he has held the position of keeper of the herbarium 

 at the Paris Museum, and is the author of very numerous syste- 

 matic papers, revisions of genera, &c. He died on May 17th. 

 Spacliea, A. Juss., is a genus of MalpigliiacecE. 



We have also to record the death, on May 25th, of Karl Koch, 

 at Berlin, w^here he was till lately Professor of Botany. Born at 

 Weimar in 1809, he was early influenced by Goethe ; studied at 

 Jena and Wiirzburg, and then exi)lored the Caucasus and Asia 

 Minor. An account of his travels is x^^^Wished in the ' Linnasa ' 

 for 1848. Koch was especially known as a horticultural botanist, 

 and his great work was the ' Deudrologie,' the first part of which 

 appeared in 1869. He was the author of many monographs of 

 the cultivated genera of Ai-ads, Bromeliads, &c., and was well 

 known to the horticulturists of all countries as the leading 

 authority on garden botany. 



We much regret to have to include in om- obituary another 

 great horticultural botanist in David Moore, the well-known director 

 of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Dublin. His death occun-ed on 

 June 9th, after three days' severe illness, at the age of seventy-tw^o. 

 He was born at Dundee, and went to Ireland in 1828, as assistant to 

 Dr. Mackay, then Director of the Dublin University Garden. In 

 1838 he was appointed to Glasnevin Gardens, and for the long 

 period of forty years has had the charge of them, to the great 

 advantage of horticultural science. As a botanist. Dr. Moore paid 

 especial attention to the flora of Ireland, and particularly to the 

 Mosses and Hex^aticae. The ' Cybele Hibernica,' w^hich was prepared 

 in conjunction with Mr. A. G. More, appeared in 1866, and is 

 a standard work on the Irish Flora. The ' Synopsis of Irish 

 Mosses ' was printed in ' Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy' 

 for 1873, where also, in 1876, appeared the valuable ' Report on 

 Irish Hepaticae.' One of Dr. Moore's last contributions to science 

 was the description of the new Irish Isoetes m this Journal 

 (1878, p. 353), dedicated to his friend Mr. A. G. More. 



Tilbury Fox, M.D., who died very suddenly of heart disease 

 at Paris, on June 7th, aet. forty- three, had paid considerable 

 attention to the part played by minute Fungi in the production of 

 diseases of the skin and hair ; and in our volume for 1867 will 

 be found a letter from him on the subject of the so called " Chignon - 

 Fungus." 



