Eliza Standerwick Gregory

Eliza Standerwick Gregory , née Barnes (born December 6, 1840 in Thrapston , Northamptonshire , † March 22, 1932 in Weston-super-Mare ) was a British botanist who did research on violets . Her botanical author abbreviation is " Greg. "

Career

Eliza Gregory studied species of the violet genus from a young age. The different variations and mutations particularly aroused her interest.

Gregory did not begin her scientific work until the age of 64. The Cambridge Botanical Gardens provided her with a piece of land for her own studies, which Gregory used to research the life cycle of the violets.

In 1912 she published the monograph British Violets , the illustrations of which also received great attention. In the Journal of Botany , she published several scientific articles 1904-1923. Gregory bequeathed her herbarium to the British Museum of Natural History .

Appreciation

The botanist James Walter White mentioned Gregory in his Flora of Bristol and described their knowledge of the violets as unique among British botanists. She described the violet species Viola calcarea (Bab.) Greg. That after the Euro + Med PlantBase now as a synonym of Viola hirta L. applies. She discovered the smoke species Fumaria occidentalis , which she had found in a wooded area near Lelant according to Frederick Hamilton Davey 's Flora of Cornwall .

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literature

• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 121

supporting documents

1. ↑ Book Review British Violets- a monograph in The Athenaeum No. 4437 of November 9, 1912
2. ↑ Entry Viola hirta at Euro + Med Plantbase
3. ↑ according to F. Hamilton Davey's Flora of Cornwall (1909) cited in Gardeners Chronicle , Volume 162, Purnell and Sons, London 1967; Page 17

Web links

• Entry of Eliza Standerwick Gregory at Jstor Plant Science
• Entry of Eliza Standerwick Gregory at IPNI
• The book British Violets on display at open library