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### Author
Carrington, Benjamin (1827-1893), British physician and bryologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Carring.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Carrington*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection MANCH|MANCH]].
*Exsiccatae*: with William Henry Pearson (1849-1923): *Hepaticae britannicae exsiccatae* (fasc. 1-4, nos. 1-290), Manchester 1878-1890. Sets at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 117.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 47. 1953.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 143. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 67. 1970.
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 189. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 315; BB p. 59; BL 2: 275; BM 1: 320, 3: 1303; CSP 1: 799, 7: 339, 9: 453, 14: 80; GR p. 369; Jackson p. 154, 242, 247, 262, 367; Kew 1: 484; LS 4688-4691.
- Carrington, British hepaticae, parts 1-4, London, 1874-1875.
- Pearson, Rev. bryol. 20: 62-64. 1893.
- Pearson, J. Bot. 31: 63, 120-122. 1893; repr. 3 p.
- Pearson, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 1895 \[v\] p. (bibl.)
- Dallman and Wood, Trans. Liverpool bot. Soc. 1: 63-64. 1909.
- Shaw, Naturalist 924: 6-7. 1923.
#### Composite works
Cryptogams in L. C. Miall and B. Carrington, *The flora of the West Riding*, London 1862. q.v.
#### Handwriting
Candollea 28: 421-422. 1973.