224 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
McKen for living — and seeds of South African species, and our herbaria 
have been much en by the results of his explorations in Natal and 
the docet distri 
On May 22nd, died G. F. Reuter, at Geneva, pue he held the leue 
Director of the Botanie Gardens. e was the author of ‘ Catalogu 
des plantes vasculaires de Genéve,' (1832), and of * Essai sur lá vege 
tation de la nouvelle arar (1843), besides the monograph of the 
“specs in DCs Prodiontus, vol. xi, and in conjunction with 
Margot of an essay on the flora of the Island of Zante. He was on terms 
of intimate friendship with the eminent botanist M. Boissier, was 
with him part author of * Diagnoses décor nov. Hispanicarum,’ and 
* Pugillus plant. nov. Afric borealis, e 
We greatly regret to have to eri also the death, at 25 years of 
age, of Robert Creaser Kingston, of the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, 
Kew. After em ployment in the Gardens themselves, he entered the 
Herbarium in 1868 and Vorai there indefatigably, acquiring 1 de ex- 
tensive knowledge of plants. His death, which occurred on June 21st, 
after a long illness, doubtless the result of overwork, is a Me o the 
small staff of the Kew Herbarium, which it will be difficult to supply. 
is name is commemorated in the. genus Kingstonia (Anonacez), he 
defined by Dr. Hooker in the Flora of British India. Mr. Kingston had 
collected material for a Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire 
We can only allude to the deaths of Dr. G. M. v EG ens, on the 
24th Feb., at Stuttgart, in his 84th year, author of Floras of Venice 
and of Warte mburg; o of Dr. M. A. Curtis, the well-known American eryp- 
togamist, which occurred suddenly on April 10th, just before completing 
the 64th. year of his age; and of Dr. G. Dolliner, author of a Flora 
pos enm in India, on April 16th. 
a large herbarium of British Plants, containing upwards s of 
5000 poesia both Phanerogams and Cryptogams, carefully selected, 
named and mounted in 50 half-bound Russia portfolios. Apply to S. G., 
Messrs. Gladding and Son, Aldine Chambers, 13, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
Dr. Rabenhorst (Dresden) has for sale the following selection of species 
from Valdivia (Chili), collected in the winter of 1870-71, by his son 
Rudolf. "The plants have been Beanie and determined by Herr v. 
Krempelhuber. The price is six shi ings, carriage free. “Lecanora 
penises, Ach., var. septem-locularis, Krphb., L. coarctata, Ach., L. conizæâ, 
n e 
tata, Krphb. zov spec., Arthonia ?, A. ep! acta, Ach 
Chrysothrix nolitangere, Montagne, cum fructu /, Bacidia effusa, DOIT 
Blastenia fusco-ferruginea, ov. Spec., cinnabarina (Ach.) 
Usnea ceratina, Ach., Lecidea æruginosa, Nyl., L. — Flik., f. 
hypothecio infuscato, atro-fusco, Parmelia prolixa, Ach., onspersa, 
Ach., Physcia flavicans, var. acro romela, Pers., Bulli many (Mass. 
Krphb. (=B. italica, var. tumida Mass.), B. e var. lactea, Mass.» 
Pertusaria Wawreana, Mass., f, spermagonifera, P. melar panis Nyl, 
Amphiloma murorum, Hoffm., Lichen dubius, non rite evolutus 
Cor ee ee 172, line 13 from bottom, for “Tunbridge Wells,” read 
mot ath ; da st line, for * Van Heurck of Antwe erp," read 
Morren of Liége." 
