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. Mr. R. Brown, “ the Prince
of Botanists,” has dedicated the genus H t jt c h in s ia , consisting
of several pretty alpine 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 Polysiplionia, for a like purpose. Most lovers of
marine botany will regret that the priority in point of publication
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 lines quoted by Mr. Turner
when concluding a grateful tribute to her memory, in the last
page of his ‘ Historia Pucomm —
“ 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 Hutchinsim 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.
Pig. 1. Cladophoea H utchinsia; :— o f the natural size.
ment. 3. SmaU portion of the same:— both :
Part of a fila