102 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
ing, near Falmoutli, was an ardent botanist ; for many years she collected the 
botanical treasures in her neighbonrhood, and the exhibitions of the Cornwall 
Polytechnic Society were generally enriched by some evidence of her labours. 
She was a member of tliis Society from its commencement, and always gave her 
assistance in the adjudication of natural history prizes. In the investigation of 
that fiora, the growtli, not of the land, but of the sea, she displayed much patient 
research and correct judgment. When her attention was first turned to this 
branch, there were few works on the subject, and the large number of seaweeds 
found on the British shores were not discriminated and arranged as they now are. 
The labours of Mrs. Griffiths, of Torquay, were adding increasingly to the 
knowledge of these plants ; Miss Warren, following her example, explored the 
shores of her native county, and discovered a line species in Falmouth harbour, 
Kalymenia Dulyi^ until then unknown on our coasts. Her name will survive 
in connection with the Alg0D, in \h.c ScMzosipJion Warrenice^^ species discovered 
at Mainporth, near Falmouth, by Dr. Caspary, and named in her honour. Her 
knowledge and research were equally apparent in other departments of botany. 
The ' Botanical Chart' which she published, for the use of schools contains 
a great amount of information respecting the useful properties of plants. Ee- 
cently, a passage from this chart was most unfairly copied -without acknow- 
ledgment. Miss Warren, with a fund of real knowledge of the local botany of 
her neighbourhood, did not publish her observations in any form. Her cor- 
respondence was a large one with celebrated botanists, and the labours of 
making and arranging her various collections fully occupied her time when at 
home. She was always ready to enter upon any new field of inquiry. In 1855 
she read a paper of mine on the Botany of West Somerset, in which I referred 
to the number of new species of the genus Sitbus, She directly asked me for 
specimens, and set to work at this difficult subject. The residt was that, in 
1860, she recounted her success to me in these words : — -"I must tell you of a 
feat of mine, which I deem a great one for me now, T sent a collection of EuM 
to the last Polyteclmic Exliibitioa. They were sixteen distinct species, all 
from Cornish localities. It was a novelty, and I hope my having brought for- 
ward this neglected genus will induce some active young person moving about 
the county to ascertain how many are really natives of Cornwall out of the 
kinds headed ^Baling I oniayice,^ The prize awarded may act as a stimulus on 
any one willing to place themselves in contact with a plant so well armed for 
■defence at all points, — more fitted for a cloth coat than a muslin-covered crino- 
line." To a friend who requested her assistance in naming these plants, she 
wrote:—" I cannot pronounce your Bramble-leaf to belong to Eiihus cort/lifoliic^9, 
for I do not think it does ; but you must not expect me, after having had the 
honour of a prize from the Cornwall Polytechnic Society, to hazard mj fame 
by venturing to give a name from a slngU leaf. It is vrhat none of the big- 
wigs in Bramble lore would venture to do. No, no! ail the fully -developed 
characters are required, and I beg that you will be more considerately reason- 
able in future. With only the early works of the lest authorities, it is travel- 
ling in the dark," The various tribes of Lichens, Mosses, etc., engaged her 
ftttention ; and latterly she endeavoured to render her collections of these plants 
