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found records for 1023 in Westmoreland and Furness ! But ho 

 was too conscientious to allow aliens and garden escapes to be 

 recorded as natives, and thus reduced the number to 897 un- 

 doubted native species. In order to work out their distribution, 

 he coloured the local map into six river basins, viz. the Leven and 

 Duddon, the Kent, Lune, Eamont, Eden, and Tees, and the map 



was published by Bartholomew. By the help of local botanists, 

 he was able to give, besides his own list of 500 lichens and 138 

 fungi, a list of 360 mosses and 118 hepatics, besides algae, diatoms 

 and desmids, and brought the results before a local Natural 

 History Society in 1888. His own herbarium contained about 

 2000 flowering and about 1000 flowerless plants. 



Martindale appears to have begun the study of lichens about 

 the year 1867, judging from a letter received from him February 

 25th, 1869, accompanying a series of north country flowering 

 plants which he kindly sent for my herbarium, in which he says : 

 " I have for the last two years done next to nothing among the 

 phaenogams, all of ray spare time being fully taken up with the 



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