world. 'To her the botany of Ireland is under many obligations ; 
particularly the Cryptogamic branch, in which field, till her time 
but little explored, she was particularly fortunate in detecting 
new and beautiful objects, several of which remain among the 
rarest species to the present day. Myr. R. Brown, “the Prince 
of Botanists,” has dedicated the genus Hurcurnsia, consisting 
of several pretty alpime species of Cruciferous plants, to her 
memory; and Agardh, the great Swedish Alogologist, had, 
about the same time, selected the beautiful and extensive genus 
now called Polysiphonia, for a like purpose. Most lovers of 
marine botany will regret that the priority in point of publica- 
tion attaches to the Cruciferous genus; and that therefore the 
name of Miss Hutchins can only be associated in a minor degree 
with the tribe of plants to which she was especially attached. 
But Miss Hutchins was not a mere Algologist: she cultivated 
with equal ardour every department of Natural History, and to 
her may most justly be applied the Imes quoted by Mr. Turner 
when concluding a grateful tribute to her memory, in the last 
page of his ‘ Historia Fucorum *.— 
“In every season of the beauteous year 
Her eye was open, and with studious love, 
Read the Divine Creator in his works. 
Chiefly in thee, sweet Spring, when every nook 
Some latent beauty to her wakeful search 
Presented, some sweet flower, some virtual plant. 
In every native of the hill and vale 
She found attraction ; and where beauty failed, 
Applauded odour or commended use.” 
Cladophora Hutchinsi@ is very closely allied to C. diffusa; but 
the filaments are of greater diameter, the ramuli more abundant 
and shorter, and the joints shorter and generally contracted at 
the dissepiments. 
Fig. 1. ChapopHora Hurcutnsim:—of the natural size. 2. Part of a fila- 
ment. 3. Small portion of the same :—doth magnified. 
