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Dickinson, John (fl. 1699). Sent plants from Bermuda to Petiver. 



Journ. Bot. 1881, 258. 



Dickinson, Joseph (d. 1865) : d. Liverpool, 21st or 26th July, 

 1865. M.A. and M.D., Dublin, 1843. F.L.S. Lecturer on 

 Physic and Botany, Liverpool School of Medicine, 1889. • Flora 

 of Liverpool,' 1851 ; Supplement, 1855. Pritz. 82 ; Jacks. 255 ; 

 B. S. C. ii. 285 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 36. 



Dickinson, William (1799 ?-1882) : d. Thorncroft, near Work- 

 ington, Cumberland, 1882. Land-surveyor. Compiled • Cum- 

 berland Glossary.' Baker, 'Flora of Lake District,' p. 12; 

 R. S. C. ii. 285. 



Dickson, Alexander (1836-1887) : b. Edinburgh, 21st Feb. 1836; 

 d. Hartree, Peebles, 30th Dec. 1887. M.D., Edinb., 1860. 

 M.D., Dublin. LL.D., Glasgow. Pupil of J. H. Balfour. 

 Deputy Prof. Bot., Aberdeen, 1862. Prof. Trin. Coll. Dublin, 

 1866; Glasgow, 1868; Edinburgh, and Eegius Keeper, Bot. 

 Gard., 1879. Pritz. 82; Jacks. 91; B. S. C. ii. 285; vii. 532; 

 Journ. Bot. 1888, 64 ; 'Nature,' Jan. 5, 1888; Ann. Bot., 1888, 

 396 (bibliog.j; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 41. 



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PHYLLANTHA 



— ^ u inuiB „.* ~ ,.. In the Schimper 



collection, presented to tbe Kew Herbarium by the Baroness 

 Burdett Coutts, in June, iqqo, is a specimen of the above moss, 

 labelled m Schimper's own handwriting, " Muckross, Killarney, 



f j « g1 ' Juuio ' 1865 -" 0n one of tbe lar ^ est tufts * have 

 lound five capsules ; three quite old ; one in good condition, with 



operculum still on; and one quite young, with a small calyptra. 

 lne capsules show the same characters as those recently found by 

 me 1 *? the , collections of Thomas Howell, from Oregon, U.S.A., 

 and described by M. Cardot (Revue Bryol. xv. no. 3). The spore- 

 sac is quite short and rounded below, showing conspicuously 

 through the walls of the capsule, which are ribbed when dry ; the 

 operculum is apicnlate and slightly oblique, and the calyptra is 

 sparsely hairy. The peristome has not been examined, as it 

 jeemed a pity to destroy the only good specimen for that purpose. 

 it seems strange that Schimper should have overlooked them, but 

 ,ls tht ' ^Patties are short-pedieelled— only a few of them, and these 

 were partiy hidden by an hepatic (a form of Fndlania germana Tayl.) 



it IS not. tft lm Tlr««J„_-.n *f V • 11 i :j„„ i.l.„4. 4-1. « 



fruiting specimens of 



other species are frequently found with Vlota phyllantha. Also it must 

 ue remembered that this species has been known for years from the 

 coasts ot .Northern Europe and America, but always sterile, so that 

 oivologists had grown accustomed to classing it with those mosses 

 that never fruit, and ceased to expect it.— Elizabeth G. Bbitton. 



