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Lyon, John (d. 1818 ?) : b. Gillogie, Forfarsli. ? ; d. in the moun- 

 tains, North America, 1818? At Philadelphia in 1802. 

 Returned with 14 new spp. in 1806. Went to Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Florida, returning 1812.^ Had a herbarium. 

 Introduced many American pi. to Europe : Pursh. Fl. Amer. 

 Sept. xiii. 204, &c. Journ. Bot. 1842, 11. Lyonia Nuttall. 

 Lyon, P. (fl. 1816). Of Edinburgh. ' Treatise on Trees,' 1816. 



Pritz. 199 ; Jacks. 206. 

 Lyons, Israel (1739-75) : b. Cambridge, 1739 ; d. London, 1775. 

 Astronomer. ' Fasciculus pi. circa Cantabrigiam nasc. post , 

 Eaium observata,' 1763. Taken to Oxford to lecture, by 

 Banks, in 1760, Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 129. Went on Arctic 

 Expedition, 1773. First gathered Phleum Boshvieri, Eng. 

 Bot. 459. Pritz. 199; Jacks. 249; Gorham, 'Memoirs of 

 Martyn,' 122 ; Nich. Anecd. ii. 327 ; Gent. Mag. 1775, 254; 

 Allibone; Chalmers; Eose; Cooper's 'Ann. of Cambridge,' 

 iv. 381. Lyonsia Br. 

 Lyons, John C. (fl. 1845). Of Ladiston, Ireland. ' Orchidaceous 

 Plants,' 1845. Imported and grew orchids. Pritz. 199 ; 

 Jacks 676 

 Lysons, kev.' Daniel (1763-1834)- b. 1763 ; d. 3 Jan. 1834. 

 M.A. Oxon, 1785. F.E.S. Eector of Hempstead Court, 

 Glos'ter. Topographer. Friend of A. B. Lambert. "An 

 excellent botanist," Gent. Mag. 1842, xvii. 668. 

 Lyte, Henry (1529-1607) : b. Lytes Gary, Somerset, 1529 ; d. 

 same place, 16 Oct., 1607) ; bur. Charlton Mackerel Church. 

 ' A niewe Herball,' 1678, translated from Dodoens. MSS. in 

 Archives of Univ. Oxford. Pult. i. 88 ; Pritz. 88 ; Jacks. 26 ; 

 Wood, Athen. Oxon,, ed. Bliss, ii. 22, 649 ; Willm. George, 

 ' Lytes Gary Manor House,' 1879. 



M'AUa, or McCalla, "William (c. 1814-49) : b. Ireland, c. 

 1814 ; d. Ireland, May, 1849. Algologist and marine zoo- 

 logist. A.B.S. Edin., 1840. Distinguished i?)-ica ifac/caMwa. 

 Communicated Algse to Harvey. ' Algae Hibernicse,' Dublin, 

 1845, 4to (specimens). Journ. Bot. 1842, 71 ; Phyt. ii. 742 ; 

 Harvey, Phycol. Brit. t. 84, 263. Cladojihora Macallana 

 Harv. 



Macarthur, William (fi. 1866). Commissioner to Paris Exhi- 

 bition, 1865, from New South Wales. ' Cat. des Collec- 

 tions de Bois,' sent from N.S.W. to Exhibition. Sent pi. to 

 Backhouse, now in Herb. Kew., and to Brit. Mus. Pritz. 

 199 ; Fl. Tasm. cxxvi. Macarthuria Bndl. 



M'Clelland, John (fl. 1836-65). Surgeon, Bengal Service. 

 Zoologist. F.L.S., 1841; F.B.S.E., 1856. Edited W. 

 Griffith's posthumous works, 1847-50. Pritz. 199 ; Jacks. 

 384 ; E. S. C. iv. 149. 



McCormick, Robert (1800-90) : b. Runham, Norfolk, 22 July, 

 1800; d. Wimbledon, 28 Oct., 1890. Deputy Inspector- 

 General E.N. Pupil of Lindley. Collected in Parry's 

 Arctic and Sir James Boss's Antarctic Expeditions. PL in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit., Journ. Bot. 1891, 371. ' Voyages of Dig- 



