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plumosum and Craigii, and between phimosum and 

 congestum. Died 1880. 



Mrs. Agar Thompson, sister of the Rev. C. Padley, was 

 the finder of many first-rate things, including a P. 

 ang. pidchervimiim, P. acid, acrocladon (1858), P. ang. 

 Thompsonice [cvistatnm). 



George Whitwell, the esteemed Secretary of the B. Pt. 

 Soc, although not one of the earliest hunters, has been 

 one of the most successful in the north, having found 

 over twenty forms of Lastvea vionfana, including a 

 pkimosa, which is perhaps the best yet recorded. His 

 finds among Blechnmn include pavadoxuni which is 

 quite unique among ferns. 



John Wills, of Chard, another medical fern-lover, and a 

 very successful hunter and grower. A pupil of Mr. 

 Moly as a hunter. Finder of perhaps the most 

 thorough of the angtdave pulchevrwmnis, though it is 

 doubtful whether this is now in existence. Also the 

 distributor of aculeaUim ptdchevrinium. 



John A. Wilson, of Bowness, an early hunter, who is still 

 alive : found some good things in the sixties and 

 seventies, including Polypod. v, sevva, L.paleacea cvistata, 

 and vamo -cvistata, and L. montana crispatissima. Mrs. 

 Wilson was also a successful hunter. 



George B. Wollaston, of Chiselhurst. Next in point 

 of time as an authority on names to Mr. Moore. An 

 enthusiastic hunter and cultivator of ferns. Finder of 

 many excellent varieties of P. angtdarc, of which his 

 acutilobuin and his plumosum are, perhaps, the ]3est 

 known. He it was who first defined and named the 

 three sub-species which make up the aggregate 

 Lastvea FUix mas of Presl. He was also the originator 

 of the descriptive system of naming varieties, which is 

 now generally accepted. 



