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beginning of his career he took up the study of the 
Pyrenomycetes, on which he published several papers and 
accumulated an extensive collection of specimens. A genus 
of the Pyrenomycetes was named Plowrightia in 1883, by 
Saccardo, “ a C. B. Plowright, mycologo et in primis 
pyrenomycetologo eximio, e King’s Lynn, Britannice.” But 
when the heteroecismal theory of the Uredinece was pro- 
pounded, Dr. Plowright, undeterred by the scornful in- 
credulity of the official British mycologists, entered en- 
thusiastically upon the study of those obligate parasitic 
species ; by a long series of experiments and cross-infections, 
he assisted in placing the theory beyond all doubt, and 
incidentally established his reputation as a skilful and exact 
scientific worker. In 1890, he published his well-known 
book ,‘ A Monograph of the British Uredineae and Ustilagineae,’ 
which still remains a standard work on the subject. 
Dr. Plowright’s herbarium included specimens not only of 
his own collecting, but also others from the leading mycologists 
in Europe and America. It has been acquired, through the 
late Professor Hillhouse, by the Mason College, Birmingham, 
where, with M. Larbalastier’s lichens and Mr. E. M. Holmes’ 
Algae, it forms the cryptogamic herbarium. 
His papers on systematic mycology and plant diseases are 
too numerous to be enumerated here. Lindau and Sydow’s 
‘ Thesaurus Litteraturae Mycologicae ’ includes a list of 
more than 130 mycological contributions from his pen, 
but even that is not complete. He was a frequent contributor 
to ‘ Grevillea,’ which was formerly the cryptogamic periodical 
of this country, and in conjunction with the late Mr. W. 
Phillips of Shrewsbury, he published in that medium a series 
of papers on “ New and Rare British Fungi,” in which were 
described 296 species. His ‘ Monograph of the British 
Hypornyces ’ was another important contribution to that 
Journal. Other papers appeared in the ‘ Proceedings of 
the Royal Society,’ ‘ Journal of the Linnean Society,’ 
‘ Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique de France,’ ‘ Journal 
of the Royal Horticultural Society,’ ‘ Zeitschrift fur 
Pflanzenkrankheiten,’ ‘ Transactions of the British Myco- 
