He then took up the science of botany, and became an expert field botanist and microscopist, traversing England, Ireland, and Wales.
In time he became acquainted with the 'habitats' of all our indigenous flowers, and made a special study of lichens.
[1] About 1860 he explored Snowdon and the adjacent mountains and hills under the auspices of a botanical committee of the British Association.
Later in life he became a great collector of rare fungi, gathered from their widely scattered localities throughout the land.
He also compiled 'The Flora of Sherwood Forest' for Mr. Robert White's 'Worksop, the Dukeries, and Sherwood Forest,' Worksop, 1875, 4to, and arranged his materials in accordance with Joseph Dalton Hooker's 'Student's Flora.'