T)r John Lowe on Asplenium germanicum. 



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it associated with A. scptentrionale and never with A. lluta- 

 muraria, it seemed to me highly improbable that it could 

 be anything more than a mere variety of the former, an 

 opinion which I am pleased to find is also lield by our 

 President, Mr Boyd, who has kindly informed me of the 

 facts which he recently brouglit under your notice touching 



Asiylenmm germanicum. 



this question. If my memory serves me, however, it was 

 on one or two occasions found in company with both A. 

 Ruta-muraria and A. septentrionale by the late Professor 

 Balfour. 



In 1877 I found some specimens on the Maloja Pass, 

 above Chiavenna, similar in form to that recently exhibited 

 by Mr Boyd to the Botanical Society, having distinct fronds 



