128 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Asplenium adulterinum. 
During the course of last yender "e geogpteplical distribution of a very cu- 
rious plant has been more ascertained,—I mean Asplenium adulte- 
rinum (intermediate between A. Trichomanes PE A, viride), which grows on 
serpentine rocks in Bohemia, Moravia, and Saxony. I have examined it care- 
fully and anatomically, and it is likely that ihe plant will play an important 
part when the question of the mutability of species is considered. As there 
are serpentine rocks in Great Britain, and the constant associate of A. adulte- 
rinum (viz. A. serpentini) occurs there,—for instance, between Aberdeen and 
Banff, in Scotland (see T. Moore in ‘Journal of Botany,’ 1863, p. 184; and 
1864, p. 129, t. 17),—there is reason to believe that A. adu/terinum may also 
be a member of the British flora. 
J. MILDE. 
Breslau, March 14th, 1868. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
t to announce By death of W. = G. aa fpe 3 weed ed 
Aca 
chi eik rated by woodcuts ; 
a fas Pedras Negras i in Angola," by Dr. bisce illustrated by woodcuts ; 
udde wl Dufton's * Abyssinia ; 
fesso 
" “rns and Bentham's * Gene ewed by Prof. De Can- 
a * Straits of Magellan," pres pi Dr E. Cuuhiüghihé and Capt. 
May 
Phe e Y dian Office has published ‘The Chinchona Species of u^ Granada, 
containing the botanical descriptions of the species examined b rs, Mutis 
and Karsten; with some account of those botanist ead their wem 
nts rkham, F.L.S. i Mr. 
iety o 
which he says that his views on the mou e are by no means definitel 
ent. 
- B. Fonzi sends us Eis sketch of the life and labours of tho late Dr. Theo- 
dor Kotschy, from which we learn with pleasure that the OM of that great 
botanical traveller and explorer are at gs put in their proper light by so compe 
tenta hand. Dr. Kotschy was born on the 15th of April, 181, at Ostrau, 
in Austria, and died at Vienna on the Lith of June, 1 
ituary this pus oe rer name of Mr. E. Tucker, of Margate, 
who first discovered th 
