IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN CARRINGTON. 121 
peer to Anthelia julacea var. clavuligera, he remarks :—‘‘ Curiously 
ungermannia I ever collected, having met 
with it on the mountains near Glen Shee, August, 1850. Iremember 
the circumstance, because I could not make out at first whether it 
as a ee or hepatic.’’ For some years following, short papers, 
chiefly on mosses, appeared from his pen, and he began a corres- 
pondence with nearly all the leading ceypiogalals botanists of 
Gottsche and Lindberg, on the Continent; and Wilson, Hooker, 
Spruce and others, here. In 1861 he visited the south of Ireland: 
the result of this visit was the appearance of his interesting . 
le ished in Trans. 
Bot. Soc. Edin. in 1863—an extensive list of Lichens, Mosses and 
gent with beta pie on many species, especially of the 
latter order. It illustrated by two beautiful plates, which 
jridieats the skill c had neon in the art of delineating crypto 
gamic plants. Another m8 of this visit to Ireland was the riols 
contribution he made to Rabenhorst’s Bryotheca Europea, and 
Gottsche and Pabeaciaton s Hepatice Europea, one part of the latter 
being almost composed of the doctor’s collecting. 
In 1862 appeared Miall and Carrington’s Flora of the West 
Riding, for which he compiled ‘the list of Cryptogams. About this 
time he began to prepare a work on the British Hepatice, corres- 
ponding with all collectors and those interested in this group. In 
1 
British Jungermannia in 1816. The fourth part had an ominous 
note appended, whisk stated that in consequence of the indisposition 
of the author the letterpress was some pages short. For some time 
he continued in a very low state of health, and about the years 
1880 and 1881 he had to undergo several painful operations, under 
which his friends were afraid he would succumb. e rallied, how- 
Encyclopedia Britannica. In 1878 we issued the first part of our 
epatice Britannice et in the preparation of which Dr. 
Carrington took great eos 
In 1876 
happiest finds, Hygrobiella tegen This he  aitichel. with 
several new species, in the Jans. Bot. Soc., Hdin., vol. xiii. (1879). 
d 
Antipodes,—Mr. Thomas Whitelegge to New South Wales, Mr. 
Bastow to Tasmania—sent large collections of Hepatice, which we 
her 
_stipce by twelve plates, the cost of which was potas 
defrayed by the late Sir William MacLeay ; those of Mr. Bastow 
in tha Proc. Royal Soc, of Tasmania for 1887. These were rn two 
