THE LATE REV. W. R. LINTON 69 
The Rey. Augustin Ley, his frequent companion in recent 
years, contributes the ae sketch :— 
“Im acquaintance wit . R. Linton first when staying 
with the. ate Rev. W. H. Purchas at Alstonfield in 1887 ; my 
earliest walk with him being that in which Hieracium holophyllwm 
. Linton was discovered (Journ. Bot. 1890, p. vig Since 
then I have been with him in West Yorkshire in 1902, 3, and 4, 
on expeditions in the course of which we explored ae the 
neighbourhoods of Ingleton, Horton, Clapham, Kettlewell, and 
Arncliffe. In 1905 we were together in the English Lakes, and 
in 1906, for a short time, in West Breconshire; and in addition 
to these summer rambles, he has paid me numerous visits at my 
own home. id not know him in the earlier years, in which he 
ull on n day after day in what —* have been an uninteresting 
seed-plants of va ae Fe 
2 p Pare r feature of his character =e his reliance upon 
science aa diodes o follow wherever the facts of Nature 
a ed to lead, and to publish these ys for the help and 
guidance of others, undeterred by those possibilities of error which 
cannot be postions eliminated, or by doubts how far others would 
commend or condemn the advance attempted, convinced that 
what was w eh being was worth knowing, and that its publica- 
tion would lead into fuller truth. He used to speak with admira- 
tion of the thorough mee in which eS ae botanists have 
nam: e still n cog and describing t d 
wealth of Hieractum ce s, and to ar the. opinion that it 
would be well for British botanists to do 
“Thi his do age a joined with eonfideness in pact 
Light, such as has transformed the study of British willows 
through his labours and those of one or two others, was begl 
to illumine the gloom of Hieracitum; we hope darkness will not 
now settle down again 
‘‘ Among personal traits, his equability of temper, joined with 
carelessness of personal comfort and of dress and appearance, was 
ap’ 
very remarkable. Through years of ill-health and suffering I 
never remember him in any degree irritable or = out. I recollect 
