BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 245 



• Botanical Explorers of Pacific Coast' ; Pritz. 70; in ' Overland 

 Monthly,' 1883; Bot. Geol. Survey. Californ. 555; Jo urn. Roy. 

 Geogr. Soc. 1835, v. 59. Coulteria, H. B. K. = Omalpima in part. 

 Cowell, John (d. circ. 1730) : Of Hoxton, Nurseryman. ' Account 

 of Aloe Americana,' 1729. Cott..Gard. viii. 121. 



Cowell, M. H. (fl. 1839) : ' Floral Guide for East Kent,' 1839. 



Pritz. 71 ; Jacks. 230, 254. 

 Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) : b. London, 1618 ; d. Chertsey, 



28th July, 1667; bur. in Westminster Abbey. M.A., Camb. 



1642. M.D., Oxon, 1657. Poet. F.R.S., 1662. Works, 1668, 



w. life by Sprat; and portr. Pult. i. 282; Pritz. 71; Jacks. 



212 ; Nich. Illust. iv. 398 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xii. 379 ; Portr. 



engr. by T. Paithorne in 'Latin Poems,' 1668; anotber in 



' Works,' 1673 ; and others. Two portrs. at Bodleian ; one by 



Lely in Nat. Portr. Gallery, &c. 

 Coyte, William Beeston (1741-1810) : b. 1741 ; d. Ipswich, 



3rd March, 1810; bur. St. Nicholas', Ipswich. MB., Cambr. 

 1763. M.D. Clk. of Yarmouth and Haiesworth. Afterwards 

 practised as physician at Ipswich. A.L.S. 1788. F.L.S. 1794. 

 ' Hortus Botanicus Gippovicensis,' 1795. ' Index Plantarum,' 

 vol. i. 1807. Pritz. 71 ; Jacks. 13, 14, 412 ; Gent. Mag. 1810, 

 i. 389 ; Rich. Corr, 184 ; Nich. Illust. vi. 877 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 xii. 424. 



Coys, William (fl. 1600) : Of Stubbers, N. Ockington, Essex. 

 First flowered Yucca, 1604. Lobel, ' Adversaria,' i. 501 ; li. 

 471 ; Parkinson, Theatrum, 84. 



Crewe, Henry Harpur (1830-1883): b. 1830; d. Drayton 

 Beauchamp, September 7th, 1883. Clk. M.A. Rector of 

 Drayton Beauchamp, Tring. Entomol. Monthly Mag. xx. 

 118; Journ. Bot. 1883, 380. Crocus Creivei Hook. f. 



Crichton, Sir Alexander (1763-1856): b. Edinburgh, 2nd 

 December, 1763 ; d. June, 1856. M.D., Leyden, 1885. 

 L.R.C.P. 1791. F.L.S. 1793. F.R.S. 1800. Knighted 1821. 

 Physician to the Czar. ■ On Vegetable remains m Sandstone 

 near Ballisadiere, Co. Sligo,' Trans. Geol. Soc. ; Munk.ii.416; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1857, xxv. ; Proc. Roy. Soc. hi. (1856) 269; 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xiii. (1857) lxiv. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



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xm. 85. 



Croall, Alexander (1809 ?-1885) : d. Stirling, May 19th, 1885. 

 Of Guthrie, Forfar. Local Sec. Bot. Soc. Lond. 1843. ' Plants 

 of Braemar ' (dried specimens) 1855 ; ' Nature-printed Brit. 

 Seaweeds ' [with Johnstone] , 1859-60. Keeper of Museum 

 and Herbarium, Derby, 1863. Curator, Smith Institute, 

 Stirling, 1873. Herbarium at Stirling. Pritz. 157; Jacks. 

 242 ; R. S. C, ii. 95 ; vii. 460; Trans. Bot. Soc. ed. xvi. 309. 



Crocker, C. W. (1832 ?-1868) : b. Chichester, 1832 ? ; d. Torquay, 

 Devon, 19th February, 1868. Foreman at Kew. Afterwards 

 Verger, Chichester Cathedral. 'Germination of Cyrtandre®; 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 1861 ; Gard. Chron. 1868, 242. 



Crosfield, George (1785-1847) : b. Warrington, 1785 ; d. War- 

 rington ?, 15th December, 1847. Secretary, Bot. Soc. War- 



