262 NOTICE OF BUXBAUMIA 1NDUSIATA. 
pinnae smaller ; it dries of a deep vivid green. I have dedicated it to 
its accomplished discoverer. 
Asplenivm (Euasplenium) Pekinense, n. sp. ; stipitibus l$-2|-polh- 
caribus tenuibus glaberrimis viridibus paleis fuscis deciduis tectis cum 
rachibus compressis marginatisque, frondibus 4-6 pollices iongis sub- 
coriaceo-membranaceis lanceolatis bipinnatis v. sursum bipinnatisectis, 
pinnis primariis a medio apicem basinquc versus decrescentibus 7-11 
lineaslongis deltoideis subapproximatis patentibus inferis magis dis- 
tantibus deflexis, pinnulis cuique pinna? 6-9 cuneatis pinnatifidis v. 
incisis subtruncatis lobis apice 2-3-dentatis dentibus setaceo-apiculatis, 
venis furcatis, indusiis in utraque pinnula 1-6 albidis teneris linearibus 
margine erosulis costulis approximatis saepe scolopendrioideis. 
In ditione Pekinensi, estate 1865, collegit Dr. S. W. Williams. 
(Exsicc. n. 12404.) 
I at first considered this pretty little Fern to be allied to A. Merten- 
sianum, Kze. ; but the late lamented Professor Mettenius, to whom I 
communicated specimens, whilst acknowledging it to be "a distin- 
guished new species," pointed out that its chief relationship was with 
A. varians, Hook, and Grev. (Icon. Fil. t. 172), adding that he had 
seen in the Hookerian herbarium an undescribed Japanese Fern still 
nearer the latter. I have since received from my ever liberal friend 
Dr. Thwaites, a specimen of A. varians, and I entirely acquiesce m the 
decision of the eminent pteridologist whose death is so great a loss to 
Met 
separated in his arrangement by too great an interval. 
NOTICE OF BUXBAUMIA INDUSIATA, Brid., IN 
ABERDEENSHIRE. 
By G. Dickie, M.D. 
In July, 1847, two specimens of a Buxbaumia were found m a woo 
near the village of Ballater, in Aberdeenshire. Mr. Alexander Crow - 
shank, who gathered them, gave me one which was placed in , 
barium as B. aphylla. Some months ago, at a meeting of the 
burgh Botanical Society, it was reported that an immature specimen o^ 
B. indnuata, Brid., had been found in Ross-shin-. This report let db 
to re-examine Mr. Cruickshank's plant, which differed in genera IP* 
