366 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
student of flowering plants, mammals, and birds. His earliest 
contribution to botany, published in this Journal in 1872, clearly 
reflects More’s influence. It is a record of attempts to rediscover 
rip missing Irish plants—Lythrum Hyssopifolia, Erica vagans, 
and Euphorbia Peplis—enterprises in which subsequent explorers 
have been no more successful than himself. 
In 1877 Barrington began the series of botanical ae 
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Donegal, was the first area selected for investigation, and a wee 
was spent in listing its wind-swept flora, which proved poor and 
comparatively uninteresting. Two ears later he attempted an 
exploration of the Blaskets, a mountainous cory ee . the 
extreme south-west of Ireland; bad weather, want of t and 
the hostility of the islanders owing to agrarian aati, ac catal 
for the time his efforts, but returning in the following season he 
was successful. This was an enterprise well suited to Barrington’s 
taste. The savage precipices and the wild sea were worthy 
antagonists of his skill and daring, and within five days he had 
succeeded in landing on and exploring eek every island of 
the group. The results of his work appeared, as did most of his 
subsequent botanical reports, in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish 
cademy. 
During the summers of 1881 and 1882 the shores and islands 
rne, in Co. Fermanagh, were explored. Caliha 
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flora which clings to the tall faite lif walls 
him in good stead here. The 1 range of the rarer sea as for 
useful observations wer n his many journeys through 
Ireland. is fresh enthusiasm remained with him until his 
sudden a death, which was due to heart failure. 
ness, ‘his sense of humour, and a charming gene & which 
characterized all his intercourse, combined with a boyish 
sottyiitices which time did not impair, made his presence 
