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intricatum, Anomodon viticulosus, Stereodon polyanthos. Of these Buxoaumia 

 aphylla has not since been found in Ireland. 



Robert Brown, 1773-1858, a.l.s. 1798, f.e.s. 1811, d.c.l. (Honorary), 

 Oxford, 1833, collected mosses in Donegal, Sligo, and Londonderry. As 

 Assistant Surgeon to the Fifeshire Regiment of Infantry, he was stationed 

 in the North of Ireland during the close of the eighteenth century. There 

 is a notice of his botanical work in Ireland in the " Journal of Botany " for 

 1888. 



Dawson Turner, m.a., f.e.s., f.l.s. (1775-1858), of Yarmouth, published 

 his " Muscologife Hibernica? Spicilegium " in 1804, which was the first book 

 entirely devoted to the mosses of Ireland. This author describes 231 

 species of Irish mosses, " all of which had been, either seen by himself 

 growing in Ireland, or sent from thence to him." The botanists who sent 

 mosses from Ireland to Turner were Whitley Stokes, Robert Scott, John 

 Templeton, and Ellen Hutchins ; and the assistance of the three men is duly 

 acknowledged in the preface to the work, but the lady is not mentioned. 

 Long afterwards, William Wilson discovered in the herbaria of Turner and 

 of Hooker in the British Museum, many specimens of Irish mosses which 

 had been collected by Miss Hutchins. Turner's work includes the following 

 13 mosses, which subsequently through an oversight Taylor omitted from 

 Part 2 of Mackay's " Flora Hibernica " : — Buxbaumia aphylla, Polytrichum 

 subrotundum, P. attenuatum, Fissidens exilvs, Anisothecium rufescens, Dicranum 

 fuscescens, Orthotrichum Schimperi, Bryum bicolor, Milium marginatum, 

 M. cuspidatum, Amblystegium revolvens, Hypnum Teesdalii, H. Sivartzii. 



Robert Scott, m.d., who died previous to 1813, was Professor of Botany in 

 Trinity College, Dublin. He helped Turner in his examination of the Irish 

 mosses, and Turner dedicated his " Muscologia " to him, and says it was 

 begun at his suggestion. Scott got a reward of five guineas, Irish 

 currency, from the Dublin Society, " for producing native plants not hitherto 

 described ; " these were the two mosses, Grimmia maritima and Dicranum 

 Scottianum, of which descriptions and illustrations were published in the 

 Dublin Society's Transactions, vol. hi, p. 157(1803). 



Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), m.d., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 Lecturer in Natural History, was a muscologist. He searched many parts of 

 Ireland, and contributed many rare mosses to Sir James Smith's " English 

 Botany," and also to Dawson Turner for his "Spicilegium." 



About the same time as the foregoing, according to Moore in the intro- 

 duction to his " Synopsis of the Mosses of Ireland," there was an Irishman. 

 Dr. Francis Barker, who paid considerable attention to Irish mosses, and com- 

 municated his observations to Mackay and Whitley Stokes. 



