592 baker's north YORKSHIRE. 
Hook. & Tay. He also studied the Hepaticae, and living in 
the south-west corner of Ireland, in which district some of 
the rarest of the Hepaticae grow, he became an authority on 
them, and examined and named a number of specimens 
sent to him, collected by the early travellers in New Zealand 
and other countries. Taylor however, followed Hooker by 
including all the foliose Hepaticae in the genus Jungermania. 
Dr. Taylor died at Dunkerroon in 1848. He was M.D., 
Dublin, also F.L.S., 1814, and Professor of Botany, Cork 
Scientific Institution; see ^''Biographical index of British 
and Irish Botanists^ Britten and Boulger.'' 
Richard Spruce visited Ireland in July, 1842, and stayed 
three weeks with Dr. Taylor, made several excursions with 
him, and collected many of the rare Hepaticae. He also 
looked over Dr. Taylor's fine herbarium, in which were many 
specimens of Exotic Mosses and Hepatics, from which he 
probably gained his first knowledge of the tropical mosses, 
and afterwards became such an illustrious explorer. 
Spruce began his bryological studies in 1836, and was 
one of the most accurate observers in working out the 
Hepaticae of Yorkshire. Some lists of these are given in the 
Phytologist, in which he gave some accounts of his early 
botanical excursions. In 1843 he visited Teesdale, and the 
result of this excursion is a paper : — The Musci and 
Hepaticcc of Teesdale^'' published in the transactions of the 
Edinburgh Botanical Society, of which he was a fellow. An 
enumeration of 41 Hepaticae is given, collected by him in 
Teesdale. The accurate description of Jungermania Ban- 
triensis^ Hook, MSS. given, clearly distinguished the plant 
from y. bidentata L. In May, 1845, Spruce went to the 
Pyrenees, and occupied himself for ten months in the ex- 
ploration of a portion of that chain of mountains. His 
account of this excursion : — The Musci and Hepaticce of 
the Pyrenees^'" is published in the transactions of the Edin- 
