Benjamin Carrington

Benjamin Carrington FRSE FLS MRCS (18 January 1827 – 18 January 1893) was a British botanist and taxonomist in the late 19th century. He was a specialist in bryophytes, cryptogams, fungi and lichens, and wrote extensively on these subjects. With William Henry Pearson he issued an exsiccata series with the title Hepaticae Britannicae exsiccatae (1878–1890).