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discoverer, and enable me to obtain specimens 1 for I do not yet know 

 the name of the lucky individual who detected it." After this, Mr. 

 Wilson sent specimens to Dr. Hooker through a friend in Liverpool, 

 as, under the postal system then prevailing, it was impossible to send 

 them direct. 



Dr. Hooker wrote, on the 15th February, 1837, to Mr. Wilson a 

 letter, in which occurs the following passage : — " Thank you for 

 having sent to Liverpool for me the Cinclidium. Surely the persons 

 who discovered it must be men of some knowledge, and acuteness too ; 

 and if so, they deserve to be encouraged.'' 



It is quite certain that the Todmorden worthies received from Mr. 

 Wilson the encouragement of which the Glasgow Professor considered 

 them so deserving. After receiving his acknowledgment of the 

 specimens first sent, they dispatched to him " a number of specimens 

 for general distribution," and in the letter which accompanied them 

 they said : — " Our situation in life (being that of labourers) will not 

 admit of us going so far at any time, the distance being nearly forty 

 miles from Todmorden." 



At the time of which we write, Hanworth, Greenwood, and Nowell 

 seemed to be pursuing their botanical labours jointly, and it is curious 

 to see letter after letter with their three signatures at foot. There is 

 one dated May 28th, 1837, which though it refers to certain mosses 

 besides that which is the subject of this note, I will take the liberty 

 of quoting in fiiU : — 



" Lobb Mill, May 28th, 1837. 



"Dear Sir— We received your valuable communication of the 19th 

 November, together with an abundant and interesting supply of rare 

 mosses, such as we have long wished to see, and for which we beg you 

 will accept our most sincere thanks. 



" Our reason for troubling you again so early is, that you desired 

 directions to the spot where we found our Cinclidium, Tvhich will be best 

 found (if you start from Malham) by going directly to the place where 

 the water discharges itself from the Tarn ; then turn to your right in the 

 direction towards Gordale. The distance, we think, where it grows is 

 not above a quarter of a mile from the bye-wash, in a hollow place on 

 the moor, on which grow Carex teretiuscula and Menyanthes trifoliata, 

 which we think will not fail to attract your attention. 



" We thank you very kindly for your remarks on JBypnum flagellar e, 

 which is far from being uncommon with us, growing in nearly all the « 

 ravines or Clough holes, but the fruit is always rare. Leucodon we have 

 not yet found near Todmorden. Encalypta streptomrpa we found on an 

 old wall near Bolton Bridge, Wharfedale, April, 1835. Hypnum rugulo- 

 sum we found in Gordale Scar, near Malham. 



