ASPLENIUM GERMANICUM WEISS. IN HONGKONG. 909 
Prunella vulgaris L. Nepeta Glechoma Benth. 
Lamium amplexicaule L.—Ardmalin; at Ardmalin South, on 
the west side of Malin Head ; reg Island; Inch Islan 
L. intermedium Fries. —Doagh I sland and at Ardmalin South, 
on the west side of Malin Head, in company with the following :— 
L. incisum Willd.—Stroove ; st ut Malin, &c., not unfrequent. 
tL. albu Rog oe Kilde a. H. 
L. purpureum L.—F reque 
ge Tetrahit L. spac ndant. 
sicolor Curt.—Leenane, and between that and Bulbein, 
&e. ; eee the Seaip and Tok Road ; frequent, W. E. H. | 
(To be continued.) 
ASPLENIUM GERMANICUM Weiss. IN HONGKONG. 
By F. B. Forsss, F.L.§S. 
I am able to note a small but interesting addition to the 
ecorded flora of Hongkong. In 1874, a collection of plants of 
that island wai made for me by a Ohtheas. engaged Ne de Mr. 
Ford, Superintendent of the Hongkong Government Gar In 
laying out the specimens into my herbarium, I Sipeiangiod ‘from 
some roots of Drymoglossum carnosum Hook., a small fern, which 
was submitted to Mr. Baker in 1876, and pronounced by him to be 
Asplenium germanicum Weiss. On my return ina I communi- 
cated the specimen to Dr. Hance, who confirmed the pene erm it 
adding that he was quite ignorant of the occurrence of the plan 
in Hongkong, nor am I aware that it has been again atau 
there. 
e geographical distribution of this little fern, as given by 
Milde, ‘ is throughout most mountainous regions of Europe; in 
Germany, Belgium, the Vosges and Jura Mountains, Switzerland, 
France, Portugal, En gland, gre and Scandina rarer 
chalk formations ; wanting in nearly all Russia, the Uatcaatin in 
Asia, ae and Ameri rica 
There is, however in the Kew Herbarium a specimen of 4. 
germanicio, ._gathered by the late Dr. Stewart in the ir fart 
Chumba territory (Western Himalayas), at an elevation of 6,00 
feet Shave t sea level. Mr, Baker kindly drew my attention to this 
eee whic h, by some oversight, was not mentioned 
- Clarke in his Review of the Ferns of Northern India. The 
pala of the fern is thus found to extend from the extreme west of 
Europe to the eastern Asiatic coast, although, as Mr. Baker informs 
me, it nowhere occurs plentifully in European countries, while it 
would seem to be still rarer in Asia 
~ on Europ. et ees 
ns. Linn. S c (Bot, ort i., part vii. 
