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 to Sir W. J. Hooker; R. S. C, ii., 105; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 440; Loud. Gard. Mag. 1836; Mag. Zool. Bot. i. (1837), 210; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 317,

(1809 ?-87): d.Newlyn, Penzance, 24 Jan., 1887. Market-gardener. Cryptogamist, especially Hepaticce, Memb. Bot. Exch. Club. Supplied Mosses to Rabenhorst for 'Bryotheca Europæa.' Contributed to Phyt. i., and to Keys' Fl. Devon and Cornwall. West Cornwall Mosses in Penzance Nat. Hist. Soc. Report, 1862-5, 56; 1881-2, 117. Penzance N. H. S. Report, 1887-8, 309; Journ. Bot. 1888, 128. Crypt, herbarium in possession of W. E. Baily, Penzance. Fissidens Curnowii Mitten.

(1819-81): b. Norwood, Surrey, 19 Aug., 1819; d. Blackheath, 8 Sept., 1881; bur. Weybridge. Fung- ologist. M.A. Camb., 1844; F.L.S., 1856. Secretary, 1860-80; Treasurer, 1880. F.R.S., 1858. Translated Schacht's ' Das Mikroscop,' 1853, and Hofmeister's 'Higher Cryptogamia,' 1862. Edited Badham's 'Esculent Funguses,' 1863; 'Fungi of Greenwich,' Phyt. 1854. Collection of Fungi at Kew. Pritz. 73; Journ. Bot. 1881, 310; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1881-2, 59; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 412; R. S. C, ii. 108, ix. 619; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 341. Photo portr. at Linn. Soc.

(fl. 1840). M.D., R.N.,of H.M.S, "Waterwitch." Collected on West Coast of Africa. Herb, at Kew, Ic. Pl. 605 Curroria Planch.

(1779-1860): b. Walworth, Surrey, 1779; d. La Chaire, Rozel, Jersey, 6 Jan., 1860. Florist at Walworth. Married a dau. of William Curtis in 1801. Became proprietor of Bot. Mag. Lived at Glazenwood, Coggeshall, Essex, and at La Chaire. F.L.S., 1810. Pritz. 73 ; Jacks. 536; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1860, xxii; Cott. Gard. xxiii. 335; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 349.

(fl. 1800). Brother of following. Conducted Bot. Mag. 1799-1800. Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 479.

Lis, William (1746-99): b. Alton, Hants, 1746 ; d. Bromp- ton, 7 or 27 July, 1799; bur. Battersea. F.L.S., 1788. Apothecary. Taught by John Lagg, ostler. Crown Inn, Alton. Demonstrator to Fordyce at St. Thomas's Hospital. Præfectus Horti, Chelsea, 1772-77. 'Flora Londinensis,' 1777- 87; 'Bot. Mag.' commenced, 1787; 'British Grasses,' 1787; 'Lectures,' 1805. Rees; Pritz. 73; Jacks. 536. Life by Goodenough, Gent. Mag. vol. 69, pp. 628 & 635; by Thornton, w. portr. in 'Lectures' (1805); Nich. Illust. vi. 256; Indexes to Bot. Mag. 1828; Felton, 184; Semple, 104; Annals of Bot. (1805) 189; Friends' Books, i. 502; Fl. Midd. 393; Cott. Gard. iv. 205; Journ. Hort. 1876, xxi. 239; Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 479; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 349. Portr. in Thornton's 'Botany,' and at Kew. Curtisia Alton.

(d. 1866): d. Exmouth, 15 April, 1-866. Of Sidmouth. Algologist. Algae in Herb. Mus. Brit Pritz. 74; Journ. Bot. 1866, 238. Cutleria Grev.