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to the Irish flora. One collector, Denis Murray, who is mentioned as having 

 helped, was an assistant in Cork Botanical Gardens ; he flourished about 1845. 

 The other collectors whose names are given are : — Miss Hutchins, Mr. 

 Alexander, Dr. Scott, Mr. J. Drummond, Mr. W. Wilson. 



Isaac Carroll (1829-1880) died at Aghada, Co. Cork. His herbarium is 

 in the British Museum. In a communication entitled "New or Scarce 

 Irish Mosses" in the "Phytologist," 2nd series, vol. i, p. 236 (1856), he 

 records 57 species, of which the following were new to the Irish list : — 

 Sphagnum subsecundum var. contortum, Bicranum schisti, Pottia crinita, 

 Bitrichum flcxicaule, Barbula Homscliuchii, Tortula laevipila, Grimviia orbicu- 

 laris, Bryum ccrnuum, B. inclinatum, B. intermedium, B. ventricosum, B. Donii, 

 Fanaria fascicularis, Stereodon subrufus, Hypnnm rividare, H. speciosvm, 

 H. circinatum, Amblystegiura chrysophyUwn. 



John Templeton, a.l.s. c. 1791, of Cranmore, Belfast (1766-1825), was 

 engaged for several years on a " Hibernian Flora," to which Turner alludes in 

 the preface to his Spicilegium. Some of the MSS. are still in existence in six 

 volumes, and are now deposited in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. 

 Two of these are devoted to mosses and hepatics, and describe 258 mosses 

 found in Ireland, and are accompanied by 115 accurate drawings, some 

 portions being on an enlarged scale, many of which are beautifully coloured 

 after nature. Turner, in his preface, mentions Templeton's intention of 

 publishing this Mora. 



Dr. Thomas Taylor, f.l.s., m.k.i.a., of Duukerrin, near Kenmare (d. 1848 , 

 who was associated with Sir W. J. Hooker in " Muscologia Britannica' 

 (Tst edition 1 S 1 7 j , was the next student of Irish mosses. He contributed the 

 inusci to Part II of Mackay's "Flora Hibernica " (1836), and described 228 

 species. It appears that, through a mistake, Taylor omitted 14 mosses 

 which are in Turner's list; so that 242 mosses were then known as having 

 been found in Ireland. Taylor discovered two species which were new 

 to Ireland : they are described in the Transactions of the Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh, vol. ii. p. 1 (1844); these were Leptodmitium vecv/rvifoli/wm 

 (Tayl.), and Grim m ia affinis (Schleich). 



Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), in " Muscologia Britannica" 

 (1817), recorded 43 mosses from Ireland, for 24 of which the localities are given. 

 Samuel Pickworth Woodward, a.l.s. (1821-1865), born at Norwich, buried 

 at Highgate Cemetery, visited Glengarriff in 1843, and collected mosses. The 

 names of 11 species which he found on that occasion are given in a paper, 

 " Notes of a Botanical Excursion including part of Ireland," read before the 

 Botanical Society of London, and published in the " Phytologist," No. xxxiv, 

 .March, 1S44. 



