146 PLANTS FOUND NEAR SETTLE. 
himself, and to have derived additional information of its plants 
from other contemporary investigators, as Lawson, who resided 
in the adjoinmg county of Westmoreland, and also from T. 
Willisel, Lister, etc. 
In July and August, 1782, it was visited by that excellent 
botanist Curtis, at the request of Dr. Lettsom, who had been a 
pupil of Mr. Abraham Sutcliffe, surgeon, Settle. His list com- 
prehends plants growing at some distance, as those about Ken- 
dal in Westmoreland, and other places, some thirty or more miles 
off; but I have thought it better to limit (with very few excep- 
tions) my list to about half that distance. Since the period of 
Curtis’s visit, it has been partly explored by others, as by Mr. 
Caley, then of Manchester, I believe; by the Rev. Mr. Bingley, 
ete. To come to a later period, I have pleasure in stating that. 
about the commencement of the present century the study of 
botany was zealously cultivated by two individuals residing for 
many years at Settle, viz. the late William Kenyon and T. W. 
Simmonds: the latter I succeeded as a pupil of Mr. Wiliam 
Sutcliffe, long the oracle, as it were, of medical science in a wide 
circuit. Mr. Simmonds, from his extraordinary talents and the 
devotion of them to natural history, would doubtless have 
greatly distinguished himself had his life been spared, but going 
out as a naturalist in the suite of Lord Seaforth, Governor of 
Barbadoes, in the year 1803, he extended his researches from 
that island to Trinidad in 1804, where, being attacked with fever, 
he soon sank under its influence. From these two persons I 
obtained much information of the plants growing in that part of 
Craven. I was able to continue my botanical inquiries for many 
years after that period, and thus to add pretty considerably to the 
list of plants growing there. My friends, John Tatham, John 
Howson (father and-son), and perhaps others, have, still more re- 
cently and up to the present time, been enabled, by residing in 
the neighbourhood, to swell the list ; but there is yet ample room 
there, especially in the more minute Cryptogamic department, 
for the labours and discoveries of future botanists. 
Hippuris vulgaris. Stagnant water, bottom of waste ground be- 
low Birkbeck’s Weir. Giggleswick Tarn. 
Callitriche verna. Stagnant water near Settle Jugs. Rivulet, 
western end of Giggleswick Tarn. 
