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Bot. St. Thomas' Hospital, 1846. A.L.S., 1836. F.B.S. 



Edinb. Edited ' Pliytol.,' 1841. Contributed to Mag. Nat. Hist. 



'Flora of Keigate,' 1838. Pritz. 198; Jacks. 575; K. S. C. 



iv. 136; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 426. 

 Lyall, Robert (£.1809-1881). M.D. F.L.S., 1824. Of Edinbiu-gli 



and London. Resident at Antananarivo. Papers on irritability 



of plants, Nicholson's Journ. xxiv.-xxviii. 1809-1811. Plants 



at Kew. Lasegne, 557; R. S. C. iv. 137. 

 Lyell, Charles (1767-1849): b. Kinnordy, Forfarsh., 7th March, 



1767; d. Kinnordy, 8th Nov. 1849. M.A., St. Andrew's and 



Cambridge. F.L.S., 1813. Contrib. lichens to Eng. Bot. 1876, 



&c. Gard. Chron. 1849, 727; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 87 ; Proc. 



Geol. Soc. 1876, 53. Portr. at Kew. Opegraj)ha Lyelli. 



Lyellia R. Brown. 

 Lyle, Thomas (d. 1859) : d. Glasgow, 20th April, 1859. M.D. 



Practised in Glasgow. Muscologist. Correspondent of Wilson. 



Had a herbarium. Mosses in Wilson's coll. in Brit. Mus. 

 Lynam, James (1812-1885): b. Ballybrummel, Co. Carlow, 1812; 



d. Raheen, Co. Galway, Oct. 1885. C.E. Hon. Corr. Sec. Bot. 



Soc. London, 1852. Found Sisyrinchium anceps near Woodford, 



Co. Galway, 1845. * The Chmates of the Earth ' (Bot. chart), 1857. 

 Lyon, George Jasper (1816-c. 1862) : b. 31st Jan. 1816 ; d. 



c. 1862. Of Glasgow. F.B.S. Edinb., 1837. Moss Herbarium 

 and drawings of Mosses and J^tnyermannm in Bot. Dept., Brit. 

 Mus. Correspondent of Wilson. 



Lynch, Thomas Q. (fl. 1849). Collected in N. Persia, 1849. 



Plants in Brit. Mus. 

 Lyon, John (d. 1818 ?) : b. Gillogie, Forfarsh. ? ; d. in the 



mountains, North America, 1818 ? At Philadelphia in 1802. 



Returned with 14 new spp. in 1806. Went to Carolina, 



Georgia, and Florida, returning 1812. Journ. Bot. 1842, 11. 



Lyoyiia Nuttall. 

 Lyon, P. (fl. 1816). Of Edinburgh. 'Treatise on ... . Trees,' 



1816. Pritz. 199 ; Jacks. 206. 

 Lyons, Israel (1739-1775) : b. Cambridge, 1739 ; d. London, 



1775. Astronomer. Taken to Oxford to lecture, by Banks, in 



1760; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 129. First gathered Phleum Dcehmeri, 



Eng. Bot. 459. Pritz. 199; Jacks. 249 ; Gorham, 'Memoirs of 



Martyn,' 122. Lyonsia Br. 

 Lyons, John C. (fl. 1845). Of Ladiston, Ireland. * Orchidaceous 



Plants,' 1845. Pritz. 199 ; Jacks. 576. 

 Lyte, Henry (1529-1607): b. Lytes Cary, Somerset, 1529; 



d. same place, 1607 ; bur. Charlton Mackerell Church. ' A 

 niewe Herball,' 1578, translated from Dodoens. MSS. in 

 Archives of Univ. Oxford. Pult. i. 88 ; Pritz. 88 ; Jacks. 26 ; 

 Wood, Athen. Oxon., ed. Bhss, ii. 22; Willm. George, 'Lytes 

 Cary Manor House,' 1879. 



M'AUa, or McCalla, William (c. 1814-1849) : b. Ireland, c. 1814 ; 

 d. Ireland, May, 1849. Algologist and marine zoologist. 

 A.B.S. Edinb. Distinguished Erica Machaiana. Communicatecl 



