i34 stabler: hepatic,*: and musci of Westmorland. 



The next additions to our moss flora were made by Wm. Hudson 

 ( 1 730-1 793), who was born in the White Lion Inn, Kendal, and 

 educated at the Grammar School of that town. As an apothecary's 

 apprentice in London he took the Apothecaries' Hall prize, which 

 was Ray's Synopsis, 



I remarked previously in this paper that I suspected that the 

 four species mentioned by Robson were taken from the first edition 

 (1762) of Hudson's Flora Anglica. I have since ascertained that 

 this is the case. 



Another enthusiastic botanist, and native of Kendal, John Wilson, 

 attained celebrity by his Synopsis of British Plants (1744). It is 

 said that he left in manuscript a second volume of the Graminere 

 and Cryptogamic plants. 



About ten years before Hudson's death and probably induced by 

 that botanist's "'Flora,' Sir J. E. Smith visited Westmorland (1782) 

 and confirmed some of Hudson's records, and also added Seligeria 

 recurvata and Hylocomium loreum to those already known. The 

 next year he returned, when 24 years of age, and found Cinclidotus 

 fontinaloides, Anomoiion viticulosus, and Neckera crispa at Kirkby 



Lonsdale. 



Almost exactly contemporaneous with Sir J. E. Smith, lived 

 John Gough of Kendal, the blind mathematician and botanist, who, 

 in Withering's ''Arrangement'* {1796) is credited with finding 

 Philonotis font ana. There is also a Kendal specimen of Fritlhnia 

 Tamarisci from John Gough in John Dalton's herbarium. 



In the same year that Sir J. E. Smith collected mosses at 

 Kirkby Lonsdale, the afterwards famous Dr. John Dalton became 

 a school teacher at Kendal and by his acquaintance with 

 John Gough greatly improved himself in mathematics, classics and 

 botany. In Daltons herbarium, now in the Owens College 

 Museum, Manchester, are Westmorland specimens of the two large 

 foliaceous liverworts, Marchantia polymorpha and Conocephalus 

 conicus. The title page of the collection runs as follows : — ' Horius 

 siccus seu Plantarum diversarum in asjris Kendal vicinis sponte 



nascentiam specimtna opere et studio Johannis Dalton collecta et 

 secundum classes et ordines disposita 1790.' 



It may thus be seen that up to the end of the century only 

 about a dozen mosses and hepatics were recorded for the county. 

 At the end of the first decade of the 19th century (September 18 10) 

 Mr. W. Borrer of Henfield, Sussex, collected Wehera elongata on 

 Helvellyn. 



Sir William J. Hooker in his * British Jungermannue* (i8l**i6) 

 mentions five hepatics, gathered in Westmorland by Mr. Charter 



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