NOWELL

John . b. Todmorden, Lancs. 1802; a hand loom weaver; a twister at Fielden Brothers’ works, Waterside, Todmorden to death; botanized over greater part of England, Wales and Ireland, and studied crypto-gamic botany; discovered a cavern mo , schistostega pennata 1840; a isted Thomas Baines in his Flora of Yorkshire; for Baines and Baker’s Yorkshire Flora 1854, he edited The mo es of of the county; the mo es No well i a curvifolia, Zygodon No well i i and Lastrea montana No well i an a were called after him. d. Todmorden 1867. bur. Cro stone. Manchester quarterly i 205–18 (1882).