JAMES MARTINDALE BARNES 161 
valuable assistance to others. The district in which he worked is 
a rich one—the mountains and valleys of the Lake District, and 
1898, and added some rare species to the British Flora: e.g. 
Jungermannia Helleriana Nees, found on rotting trunks in Naddle 
Forest, Mardale, and later in Scotland; Plagiochila Stablert Pearson 
(described and figured in this Journal for 1896, pp. 241, t. 358); 
Marsupella Stablert Spruce, found on Bow Fell in 1875, and an 
Anthoceros (A. Stabler Steph.), on sandy fields at Foulshaw, which 
is not known from any other locality. Lindberg named after him 
the genus Stableria (Orthodontiwm). 
n inte’ ssa account of Stabler appears in the Kendal Times 
for January 14 from the pen of Mr. J. A. Barnes, who le or six 
in a hay But we walked out together until we reached a 
field in pee sie a luxuriant crop of seed-grass was springing. 
‘ Now,’ nd a bare patch.’ With some difficulty I 
e the soil inch rae inch under his direction. After several 
Semen I found at last a few green scales, and with the aid of 
is a ns he was able to identify these as the plant we were in 
search of.” 
To the above may be added some account of James Martin- 
DALE Barnes (1814-1890), abridged from an article contributed by 
Stabler on the Kendal Times of May 16, sions Barnes was the 
eldest so of a Westmorland farmer, and was born at Kitcrag, 
usto’ 
and settled at Levens, where the rest of his life was spent. About 
1859 he began the study and collection of British ferns, and soon 
brought himself into the front rank of British emmaoos 
Linton’s Ferns of the Lake Country was edited by him, and gives 
evidence that he had ransacked almost every corner of the county. 
He numbered F  seenih 4 friends and correspondents Thomas 
i G. > Ed: = ar Neill Fraser, 
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