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 mosses, appeared from his pen, and he began a correspon- 
 dence with nearly all the leading cryptogamic botanisis of 
Europe, who were interested in Mosses and Hepaticæ, — 
De Notaris, Gottsche and Lindberg, on the Continent; and 
Wilson, Hooker, Spruce and others, here. In 1861 he visited 
the south of Ireland : the result of this visit was the appea- 
rance of his interesting « Gleanings among the [rish Crypto- 
_gams, » published in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. in 1863 — an 
extensive list of Lichens, Mosses and Hepaticæ, with valuable 
notes on many species, especially of the latter oder. Itis 
illustrated by two beautiful plates, which indicate the skill he 
had attained in the art of delineating cryptogamic plants. 
Another result of this visit to Ireland was the rich contribution 
he made to Rabenhorst's Bryotheca Europæa, and Gottsche 
_and Rabenhorsts Hepaticæ Europeæ, one part of the latter 
being almost composed of the doctor’s collecting. 
In 1862 appeared Miall and Carrington’s Flora of the West 
Riding, for which he compiled the list of Grypio ams. About 
- this time he began to prepare a work on the British Hepatic 
_ corresponding with all collectors and those interested in thi 
nor In 1874 appeared the first part of what promised to be 
the most important work since the publication of Hooker's 
magnificent British Jungermanniæ in 1816. The fourth part 
had an ominous note appended, which stated that in conse- 
_quence of the indisposition of the author the letterpress Was 
some pages short. For some time he continued in a very low 
state of health, and about the years 1880 and 1881 he had to 
undergo several painful operations, under which his friends 
were afraid he would succumb, He rallied, however, and was 
for several years longer able to pursue his favourite studies, 
but never with the same ardour; and he seemed to shrink 
from the task of completing his valuable work, alihough 
friends offered to assist him. He wrote the article « Hepaticæ » 
in the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1878 we issued the first 
part of our Hepaticæ Britannicæ Exsiccatæ, in the preparation 
of which Dr. Carrington took great delight. ie 
In 1876 he spent some time in the neighbourhood of the 
rossachs, and there made what Dr. Spruce describes as one 
of his happiest finds, Hygrobiella myriocarpa. This 
published, with several new species, in the Trans. Bot. Soc. 
din., vol. xiii. (4879). si 
In 1886, two Manchester botanical friends who had gone 10 
the Antipodes, — Mr. Thomas Whitelegge to New South 
Wales, Mr. R. Bastow to Tasmania — sent large collections 
of Hepaticæ, which we studied together. The results were 
published : those of Mr. Whitelegge’s collection in the Proc 
inn. Soc. of N. S. Wales, illustrated by twelve plates, the 
cost of which was generously defrayed by the late Sir William 
