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clear tide- pools, is one of those memorial plants which call 

 to mind the unwearied exertions of botanists, who first 

 sought for them in places from which many would have 

 shrunk. Such was the late Miss Hutchins, of Ballytichy ; 

 and fresh as the vivid and beauteous glaucous greenness of 

 the bright Hutchinsiee, when seen in her ocean bed, is the 

 memory of one who loved to explore the wild haunts and 

 rocks of her locality, and whose name is held in grateful 

 remembrance by botanists of all countries. To her the 

 botany of Ireland owes much, especially the eryptogamic 

 branch, which had been little explored; and hence the 

 genus Hutchinsise, consisting of various Alpine species of 

 cruciform plants,' is dedicated to her memory by It. Brown, 

 the prince of botanists. Hence, also, Agardhi, the great 

 Swedish algologist, selected the beautiful and extensive 

 genus now called Polysiphonia, with a similar design. For 

 was it solely to marine plants that her researches were ex- 

 tended ; every department of Natural History was studied 

 with equal avidity. The fishermen often saw her at early 

 dawn seeking among the deposits of ocean for whatever of 

 ''beautiful or new" had been left upon the sand ; and the 

 peat-cutter, on many a bright morning, when dew lay 

 heavy on the grass, and light wreathing mists floated on his 

 native hills, saw her light form tripping from glen to moor 

 in quest of insects or of flowers. 



" In every season of the beauteous year, 

 Her eye was open, and, with studious love, 

 Eead the divine Creator in his works. 

 Chiefly in thee, sweet Spring, when every nook, 

 Some latent beauty to her wakeful search 

 Presented, some sweet flowers, or virtual plants ; 

 In every native of the hill and vale 

 Sbe found attractions; and where beauty fail' d, 

 Applauded fragrance, or commended use." 



The geographic range of the spreading Cladophora, which 

 closely resembles the Hutchinsiee, extends to the Mediter- 



