A bibliography 1974 - 2008
PAPERS
1974
Disjunct plant distribution of
the south-western Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal
Society of Western Australia 57: 105-117.
Studies in Adenanthos
Labill. (Proteaceae): pollen morphology. Pollen et spores 16: 389-409.
The location of collection and
collectors of specimens described by Labillardičre in Novae Hollandiae
plantarum specimen - additional notes. Papers and proceedings of the
Royal Society of Tasmania 108: 159-170.
(with P. D. Coker) Ecology and
status of Erica vagans L. in County Fermanagh, Ireland. Botanical
journal of the Linnean Society 69: 153-195.
1975
The collectors and type localities of some of Labillardičre's "Terra van Leuwin" (Western Australia) specimens. Taxon 24: 319-336.
1976
Antoine Guiçhenot and Adenanthos (Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition 1801-1803. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8: 1-10.
1977
The discovery in 1810 and
subsequent history of Phyllodoce caerulea (L.) Bab. in Scotland.
Western naturalist 6: 45-72.
Summer feeding of red
squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris L.) in County Derry. Irish naturalists'
journal 19: 46-47.
1978
A taxonomic revision of the genus
Adenanthos Labill. (Proteaceae). Brunonia 1: 303-406.
Studies in Adenanthos
Labill. (Proteaceae) II - the taxonomic status of A. velutina Meisn.
reassessed. Glasra 2: 57-70.
Studies in Adenanthos
Labill. (Proteaceae) III - additional notes on pollen morphology. Glasra 2:
71-74..
The publication date of the
first Irish flora, Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum
1726. Glasra 2: 37-42.
Tropical drift fruits and
seeds on coasts in the British Isles and western Europe. 1. Irish beaches. Watsonia
12: 103-112.
Craiggamore - the earliest
record. Irish naturalists' journal 19: 250.
"Drift seeds" and
"Dear, Dirty Dublin": correspondence between John Muir and Matilda C.
Knowles, 1930-1933. Journal of South African botany 44: 187-200.
(with M. J. P. Scannell) C. E.
H. Ostenfeld's Western Australian plants in the herbarium, National Botanic
Gardens, Glasnevin (DBN). Glasra 2: 1-24.
(with A. R. Eager & M. J.
P. Scannell) Erica ciliaris in Connemara 1846-1854. Irish
naturalists' journal 19: 244-245.
1979
Studies in Adenanthos
Labill. (Proteaceae) IV - the typification of A. sericea Labill. and the
nomenclature of its subspecies. Glasra 3: 9-20.
Records of the Irish flora
published before 1726. Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society 3:
51-74.
'In the Contemplation of
Vegetables' - Caleb Threlkeld (1676-1728), his life, background and
contribution to Irish botany. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of
Natural History 9: 257-273.
Historical records of the
Irish Ericaceae, with particular reference to the discovery and naming of Erica
mackaiana Bab. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural
History 9: 289-299.
'To protect and promote the
science of horticulture' - the origins and early history of the Royal
Horticultural Society of Ireland 1816-1830. Garden history 6 (3): 65-71.
(with T. Crawford) Irish
horticulturists I: W. H. Crawford. Garden history 7 (2): 23-26.
(with B. D. Morley) Irish
horticulturists II: William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911) connoisseur and
bibliophile. Garden history 7 (3): 53-65.
1980
Works of botanical interest
published before 1800 held in Irish libraries. Occasional papers National
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 1.
What is the correct name for
the Dunkeld hybrid larch (Larix decidua x L. leptolepis)? Irish forestry 37: 112-118.
A contribution towards a
catalogue of collectors in the foreign phanerogam section of the herbarium,
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin (DBN). Glasra 4: 31-68.
Walter Wade's 'Flora
Dublinensis' - an enigmatic Irish botanical publication. Long room 20-21:
16-20.
Publication dates of H. J.
Elwes' and A. Henry's Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. Taxon 29: 382.
Some publication dates for
parts of William Curtis's Flora Londinensis. Taxon 29: 635-639.
(With B. O. Mulligan). Garrya
x issaquahensis E. C. Nelson (G. elliptica Lindl. x G.
fremontii Torr.) in cultivation in the western USA and Ireland. University
of Washington Arboretum bulletin 43 (3): 10-15.
1981
Phytogeography of southern
Australia, in A. Keast (editor). Ecological biogeography of Australia.
The Hague: Junk. pp 735-759.
Studies in Erica mackaiana Bab.
I: distribution in Connemara, Ireland. Irish naturalists' journal 20:
198-202.
The origin of Calluna
vulgaris 'County Wicklow'. Irish naturalists' journal 20: 212.
William McCalla - a second
'panegyric' for an Irish phycologist. Irish naturalists' journal 20: 275-283.
A late 17th century Irish
herbarium in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. Irish naturalists'
journal 20: 334-335.
A select annotated
bibliography of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Glasra 5:
1-20 .
The nomenclature and history
in cultivation of the Irish yew, Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata'. Glasra 5:
33-44.
James Bolton's botanical
paintings and illustrations and his association with Georg Ehret. The
naturalist 106: 141-147.
The natural history
observations and collections made during Tobias Furneaux's visit to Tasmania
(Van Dieman's Land) in 1773 with special reference to botany. Papers and
proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 115: 77-84.
Two centuries of orchids at
Glasnevin. Orchid review 89: 136-140, 191-194.
Orchid paintings at Glasnevin.
Orchid review 89: 373-377, 384.
(With Susan, Lady de Vesci). Sarracenia
purpurea naturalized in County Laois. Irish naturalists' journal 20:
253.
(With M. R. D. Seaward).
Charles Darwin's correspondence with David Moore of Glasnevin on insectivorous
plants and potatoes. Biological journal of the Linnean Society 15: 157-164.
1982
The influence of Leiden on botany in Dublin in the early eighteenth century. Huntia 4: 133-146.1983
Augustine Henry and the exploration of the Chinese flora. Arnoldia 43: 21-38.1984
Botanical exploration in Australia 1606-1788; food plants and antiscorbutics. Papers of the international conference on Indian Ocean studies II (Perth 1984). Section A [pp. 13] .1985
The Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Kew magazine 2: 312-320.1986
Sarracenia hybrids raised at Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Ireland:
nomenclature and typification. Taxon 35: 574-578.
Adenanthos x pamela (Proteaceae), a hybrid from south-western
Australia. Glasra 9: 1-5.
William Robinson's letters to
Frederick and Phylis Moore. Moorea 5: 29-37.
Drawings of poplars for
Augustine Henry by Miss Ivy Massee, 1913. Yearbook of the International
Dendrology Society: 101-105.
Towards an historical
inventory of Irish cultivars. Acta horticulturae 182: 301-307.
New cultivars of Erica and
Daboecia and a new name in Rhododendron. Moorea 5: 19-20.
Purple leaved elders: a
nomenclatural note. The plantsman 8: 189-190.
Purple-leaved elders -
postscriptum. The plantsman 8: 192.
Cycadales (Cycas,
Stangeria, Bowenia, Dioon, Encephalartos, Lepidozamia, Macrozamia, Zamia),
Podocarpaceae (Dacrydium, Microcachrys, Phyllocladus, Podocarpus, Saxegothea),
Butomaceae (Hydrocleis, Limnocharis), Hydrocharitaceae (Egeria,
Hydrocharis, Lagarosiphon, Limnobium, Ottelia, Stratiotes, Vallisneria),
Aponogetonaceae (Aponogeton), Haemodoraceae (Anigozanthos,
Conostylis, Macropidia), Tecophilaeaceae (Tecophilaea),
Pontederiaceae (Eichhornia, Heteranthera, Monochoria, Pontederia). The
European garden flora I. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
(with J. Collins and M. J. P.
Scannell). William Coulter of Newry (fl. 1815-1818) botanical and landscape
artist. Glasra 9: 7-12.
(with S. Andrews). Augustine
Henry's plants in Kew Gardens. Kew magazine 3: 136-140.
(with D. C. McClintock and J.
Cassells). Variegated tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum f. variegatum.
Moorea 5: 25-28.
1987
Irish women artists as natural
history illustrators, pp. 28-29, [and individual entries for] L. Shackleton pp.
94, 186; Edith Osborne, Lady Blake pp. 95, 150; Alice Jacob pp. 113-114, (with
N. G. Bowe) 169; Anne Elizabeth Ball, pp. 147-148; Sarah Theresa Brooks, pp.
151-152; Marianne Edwardine Fannin, pp. 160-161; (with W. Ryan-Smolin) Eliza
Greatorex, p. 163; Gertrude Hartland, p. 166; Ellen Hutchins, p. 169; Martha
King, p. 170; Lady (Phylis) Moore, p. 177; The Hon. Katherine Plunket; p. 181;
E. M. Tisdall, p. 190; The Hon. Mrs Henry Ward, pp. 191-192; Lady Charlotte
Wheeler-Cuffe, p. 193, in W. Ryan-Smolin, E. Mayes & J. Rogers
(editors), Irish women artists from the eighteenth century to the present
day. The National Gallery of Ireland [&] The Douglas Hyde Gallery,
Dublin.
Propagate to conserve: a tale
of neglect among Irish cultivars. Proceedings of International Plant
Propagators' Society 36: 303-308.
Joseph Spence's plans for an
Irish garden. Garden history 15: 12-18.
Scottish connections in Irish
botany and horticulture. Scottish naturalist 1987: 3-31.
N. J. Winch's herbarium
specimens in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin. The naturalist 112:
133-135.
From the banks of Erne to
Botany Bay: John White (c.1756 - 1832), Surgeon-General of New South Wales. Familia
2 (3): 73-82.
Botany, medicine and politics
in eighteenth century Dublin and the origin of Irish botanical gardens.
Moorea 6: 33-44.
(with P. J. Foss and G.
Doyle). The distribution of Erica erigena Ross in Ireland. Watsonia
16: 311-327.
(with W. G. Dore). James
McNab's collections from eastern North America, 1834: some notes on
nomenclature and type specimens in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin,
Ireland (DBN). Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 44:
343-349.
1988
The holotype of Olearia
semidentata Decne. New Zealand journal of botany 26: 465-466.
John White (c.1756-1832),
surgeon-general of New South Wales: biographical notes on his Irish origins.
Irish historical studies 25 (100): 405-412.
Of Rosa hugonis and
Father Hugo. Kew magazine 5: 38-43
Trinity's miner-botanist: Dr
Thomas Coulter. Hermathena 145: 5-21.
Miss Doris Findlater's
Nerine cultivars; appendix to D. Findlater, Breeding Guernsey lilies. Moorea
7: 28-31.
(with C. Colvin). 'Building
castles of flowers' - Maria Edgeworth as gardener. Garden history 16: 58-70.
(with J. A. N. Parnell). John
Bradbury (1768 - 1823) - some letters and his Irish connexions. Bartonia 54:
107-115.
(co-edited with P. T. P. Bowe). A list of gardens and parks of international and national significance
in the Republic of Ireland (January 1988). Moorea 7: 5-15.
1989
Three centuries in Irish
botanical gardens - an epitome and bibliography. Long room 34: 14-28.
Dionaea D. Solander ex J. Ellis - notes on the nomenclature
and typification of Venus's fly trap. Botanical journal of the Linnean
Society 99: 246-254.
Heathers in Ireland. Botanical
journal of the Linnean Society 101: 269-277.
'That I may earn a living':
Henry Hammersley Travers (1849-1928) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin,
Dublin. Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture annual journal 16:
60-66 .
An archaic duet: New Zealand's
contribution to Ireland's garden heritage. Royal New Zealand Institute of
Horticulture annual journal 16: 4-11.
Narthecium ossifragum L. in The Burren, County Clare. Watsonia 17:
359.
The painted herbarium of James
McNab and his other botanical art. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 45: 217-222.
Taxonomy - ancient art or
modern science?, in C. Moriarty (editor). Taxonomy: putting plants
and animals in their place. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. [dated 1988]. pp.
116-128.
Lobelia cardinalis f. alba (McNab) St John - a correction. Notes
from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 45: 375-376.
Notes on Irish cultivars with
some new names. Moorea 8: 41-49.
Moraceae (Morus,
Artocarpus, Maclura, Broussonetia, Cudrania), Urticaceae (with M. J. P.
Scannell) Urera, Pilea, Pellionia, Myriocarpa, Debregeasia, Boehmeria),
Proteaceae (Bellendena, Protea, Leucospermum, Leucadendron, Aulax,
Grevillea, Hakea, Roupala, Macadamia, Embothrium, Telopea, Lomatia, Knightia,
Stenocarpus, Banksia), Winteraceae (Drimys, Pseudowintera). The
European garden flora III. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
(with R. Stalley). Medieval
naturalism and the botanical carvings at Corcomroe Abbey (County Clare).
Gesta 28: 165-174. (Line drawings by Wendy Walsh)
(with E. M. McCracken). Julius
Wilhelm Keit, a German horticulturist at the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.
Moorea 8: 34-40.
1990
Of bees and flytraps: the
natural history of Arthur Dobbs, in D. H. Rankin & E. C. Nelson
(editors). Curious in everything. Arthur Dobbs (1689 - 1765) a tercentenary
celebration. Carrickfergus: Carrickfergus & District Historical
Society. pp. 6-13.
'A gem of the first water' -
P. B. O'Kelly of The Burren. Kew magazine 7: 31-47.
Exotic drift fruits and seeds
on the coast of Britain and adjacent islands. Journal of the Royal
Institution of Cornwall 10 (2) ['1988']: 147-177 .
Shamrock 1988. Ulster folklife
36: 32-42.
'and flowers for our
amusement..'; the early collecting and cultivation of Australian plants in
Europe and the problems encountered by today's taxonomists, in P. Short
(editor). History of systematic botany in Australasia. Melbourne:
Australian Systematic Botany Society Inc. pp. 285-296.
James and Thomas Drummond:
their Scottish origins and curatorships in Irish botanic gardens (ca 1808 - ca
1831). Archives of natural history 17: 49-65.
'It's a long way to Tipperary'
- natural history archives in Ireland with an appendix listing archives. Archives
of natural history 17: 325-347.
They gardened Glasnevin: a
register of gardeners, labourers, student-apprentices and lady gardeners in the
Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, 1795-1945. Occasional papers, National
Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 4.
William Ramsay McNab's
herbarium in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN) - 1.
Its early history and acquisition. Glasra 1 (n.s.): 1-7.
'This garden to adorne with
all varietie' - the garden plants of Ireland in the centuries before 1700. Moorea
9: 37-54.
(with Helen Dillon and Wendy Walsh) Tulbaghia
leucantha. Kew magazine 8: 12-15, plate 166.
1991
'Reserved to the Fellows':
four centuries of gardens at Trinity College, Dublin, in C. Holland
(editor). Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university. Dublin:
Trinity College Dublin Press. pp 185-222.
David Moore's fasciculi of
grasses 1843 to 1856. Long room 36: 20-28 .
The waxing of a glorious
rajah. Kew magazine 8: 81-89.
(with Wendy Walsh) Geranium
cataractarum. Kew magazine 8: 51-53, plate 169.
(with A. Farrer) Araucaria
bidwillii: Andrew Petrie's pine. Kew magazine 8: 175-185, plate 185.
1992
William Henry Harvey as
Colonial Treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope: a case of depression and bowdlerized
history. Archives of natural history
19: 171-180.
Charles Lucas' letter (1736)
to Sir Hans Sloane about the natural history of The Burren, County Clare. Journal
of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 21: 126-131.
A short treatise of firr=trees...
(Dublin, 1705) by Samuel Waring. Archives of natural history 19: 305-306.
'Out of olde bokes... cometh
all this newe science': personal reflections on botany, botanists and books. BSBI
news 62: 24-31.
'The red-rose bordered hem of
her' - Ireland and roses. The rose 86: 15-18, 83-85, 138-140 (The
Canadian rose annual 1991: 28-39).
Ferns in Ireland, wild and
cultivated, through the ages, in J. M. Ide, A. C. Jermy and A. M. Paul
(editors). Fern horticulture: past, present and future perspectives.
Andover: Intercept. pp. 57-86.
(with J. Parnell). Flora
Hibernica (1836): its publication, and aftermath as viewed by Dr Thomas
Taylor. Taxon 41: 35-42.
(with D. J. Bedford). Proposal
to conserve 1042 Xanthorrhoea J. E. Smith over Acoroides C. Kite
(Xanthorrhoeaceae). Taxon 41: 756-758.
(with Wendy Walsh). Garrya
x issaquahensis Nelson 'Glasnevin Wine': a new cultivar from the
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Glasra 1 (n.s.): 96-98.
(with S. Andrews). The origin
of Ilex x altaclerensis (Loudon) Dallimore 'Lawsoniana' and a
confusion of Hodginses. Glasra 1 (n.s.): 111-114.
1993
Dr Patrick Neill's herbarium
of Scottish garden plants in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN).
Botanical journal of Scotland 46: 367-380.
Cycads in the National Botanic
Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Encephalartos 33: 12-16 [a revised version
was published in 1995, Moorea 11].
Botany and medicine; Dublin
and Leiden. Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 22:
133-136.
Who was the author of Montbretia
crocosmiiflora? Watsonia 19: 265-267.
White-blossomed Pinguicula
grandiflora Lam. (Lentibulariaceae) in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Watsonia
19: 273-275.
Corkscrew rush (Juncus
effusus L. f. spiralis (J. McNab) Hegi) (Juncaceae) in Ireland and
Britain. Watsonia 19: 275-278.
Searching the archives for
botanists, with some Irish case histories. Huntia 9: 5-19.
Mapping plant distribution
patterns: two pioneering examples from Ireland published in the 1860s. Archives
of natural history 20: 391-403.
Notes on William Henry Harvey
and Lydia Jane Fisher, editor of Memoir of W. H. Harvey.. (London 1869).
Archives of natural history 20: 425-426.
(with D. J. Bedford). The
names of the Australian grass-tree - Xanthorrhoea Sm. and Acoroides
C. Kite (Xanthorrhoeaceae). Botanical journal of the Linnean Society 112:
95-105.
(with J. P. Rourke). James
Niven (1776-1827), a Scottish botanical collector at the Cape of Good Hope: his
hortus siccus at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN),
and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K). Kew bulletin 48: 663-682.
(with Wendy Walsh) Reginald
Farrer, Glasnevin and Deutzia purpurascens 'Alpine Magician'. Kew
magazine 10: 171-178, plate 234.
(with R. B. Williams) An
unrecorded publication on tree-ferns by P. H. Gosse. Archives of natural
history 20: 425.
1994
Charles Rathouis' painting
(1889) of Augustine Henry's goral from the Yichang gorges, China. Archives
of natural history 21: 43-47.
Dr William Hamilton (c.1783-1856),
botanist of Donegal and Plymouth. Archives of natural history 21: 73-76.
Robert Lloyd Praeger's
Crassulaceae: a commentary on possible type specimens in the National Botanic
Gardens, Dublin, and on illustrations in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Bradleya
11: 91-106.
Irish arts and crafts; the
cultivation of orchids in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, 1795
to 1922, in A. Pridgeon (editor). Proceedings of the 14th world
orchid conference. London, HMSO. pp 342-352.
Nicolaas Witsen's letter of
1698 to Martin Lister about a Dutch expedition to the South Land (Western
Australia): the original text and a review of its significance for the history
of Australian natural history. Archives of natural history 21: 147-167.
Ergasiophygophytes in the
British Isles - plants that jumped the garden wall, in A. R. Perry &
R. G. Ellis. The common ground of wild and cultivated plants. Introductions,
invasions, control and conservation. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. pp
17-30.
1995
Erica x stuartii: the authorship reconsidered. Watsonia
20: 275-278.
Erica mackaiana forma multiplicata: a new name for the
"multipetalled" form of Mackay's heath, with a history of Crawford's
heath. Yearbook of The Heather Society 1995: 33-40.
Mount Usher, County Wicklow:
its story in two books. Long room 40: 54-56.
The botanical illustrations
and art of George Victor du Noyer, in F. Croke (editor). George
Victor du Noyer 1817-1869. Hidden landscapes. [Catalogue for] An
exhibition to celebrate the sesquicentenary of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. pp 64-73.
Lophomyrtus aotearoana E. C. Nelson: a new Latin name for the native myrtle,
ramarama. New Zealand journal of botany 33: 557-559.
Scottish botanical history
preserved in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. The Scottish
naturalist 107: 137-162.
Notes on some Shetland Islands
specimens in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN). The
Shetland naturalist 1: 101-108.
The cause of the calamity: the
discovery of the potato blight in Ireland, 1845-1847, and the role of the
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, in L. J. Dowley et alii
(editors), Phytophthora infestans 150. [Proceedings of] European
Association for Potato Research (EARP) - Pathology Section conference held in
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, September 1995 to mark the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the first record of potato late blight in Ireland and
the subsequent famine. Boole Press, Dublin. pp. 1-11.
Actinidiaceae (Actinidia
(with A. R. Ferguson), Clematoclethra, Sauraria), Sarraceniaceae (Darlingtonia,
Sarracenia, Heliamphora), Cephalotaceae (Cephalotus), Pittosporaceae
(Billardiera, Bursaria, Hymenosporum, Pittosporum, Sollya), Byblidaceae
(Byblis), Roridulaceae (Roridula). The European garden flora
IV. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
'The joys and the riches of
O'Kathay': Augustine Henry and the trees of China. Irish forestry 52
(pts 1 & 2): 75-87.
The cycad collection in the
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Moorea 11: 14-23. [a
revised version of the paper published in Encephalartos 1993].
(with B. D. Morley and D.
Lambkin) Gloxinia sylvatica (Gesneriaceae). Curtis's botanical
magazine 12: 191-194.
(with D. M. Synnott and Wendy Walsh) Pseudophegopteris levingei (Thelypteridaceae). Curtis's
botanical magazine 12: 195-197.
(with A. Batten) Harveya
pulchra (Scrophulariaceae). Curtis's botanical magazine 12: 202-206.
(with M. Dunlevy) Sir
William's Irish lace - gifts from an Irish viscountess. Curtis's botanical
magazine 12: 220-236.
(with J. Fryer and Wendy Walsh) Cotoneaster bradyi (Rosaceae). Curtis's botanical magazine 12:
198-201.
(with J. Fryer) Two new
species of Cotoneaster (Rosaceae) from the living collections in the
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Glasra 2 (2): 127-134.
(with J. O'Neill) Introduction
of St Dabeoc's heath into English gardens, 1763. Yearbook of the Heather
Society 1995: 27-32.
1996
1997
Dr Thomas Coulter's cacti from
Zimapŕn, Hidalgo, Mexico. Bradleya 15: 48-64.
(with P. A. Reilly) A
checklist of collectors of Irish native flowering plants and ferns represented
in the herbarium, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN), with
biographical annotations. Glasra 3: 1-30.
James Townsend Mackay's 'A
systematic catalogue of rare plants found in Ireland': the published versions
(1806, 1807-1808) and a manuscript fragment. Glasra 3: 63-84.
Irish heathers, 1846: an
unpublished address to the Royal Irish Academy [by James Townsend Mackay;
edited and transcribed by E. C. Nelson]. Yearbook of The Heather Society
1997: 31-36.
White-flowered Bruckenthalia;
its name within Erica. Yearbook of The Heather Society 1997: 37.
Robert Scott's Irish mosses, Dicranum
scottianum and Grimmia maritima: a note about their publication. Journal
of bryology 19: 503-508.
Newry cultivars - plants
introduced by Daisy Hill Nursery and the Smith family. The new plantsman 4:
98-114.
Patrick Browne's The civil
and natural history of Jamaica (1756, 1789). Archives of natural history
24: 327-336.
(with G. Zizka) Fascicularia
(Bromeliaceae): which species are cultivated and naturalized in northwestern
Europe? The new plantsman 4: 232-239.
1998
John White's Journal of a
voyage to new South Wales (London 1790): bibliographic notes. Archives
of natural history 25: 109-130.
John White A. M., M. D., F. L.
S. (c.1756-1832), Surgeon-General of New South Wales: a new biography of the
messenger of the echidna and the waratah. Archives of natural history 25:
149-212.
Metasequoia
glyptostroboides, dawn redwood: some
Irish glosses on its discovery and introduction into cultivation. Curtis's
botanical magazine 15: 77-80.
Double-flowered shrubby
cinquefoils in the wild and in gardens. The new plantsman 5: 23-24.
(with T. Alm) Nordnorske funn
av vettenyrer og andre langdrevne frř. Polarflokken 22: 155-160.
"Lřsningsstein,
vettenyrer & ormestein" and other sea-beans. Polarflokken 22:
161-163.
The heathers in John Gerard's The
Herball or generall Historie of Plantes 1597-98, and Thomas Johnson's 'Very
much Enlarged and Amended' edition 1633. Yearbook of The Heather Society
1998: 39-54.
Ninian Niven, Curtis's
botanical magazine and the art of advertising new plants. Curtis's
botanical magazine 15: 274-282.
1999
(with Wendy Walsh) Iris lazica.
Curtis's botanical magazine 16: 14-19, tab. 357.
So many really fine plants: an
epitome of Japanese plants in western European gardens. Curtis's botanical
magazine 16: 52-68.
'A willing Cicerone':
Professor Robert Scott (ca. 1757-1808) of Trinity College, Dublin,
Fermanagh's first botanist. Glasra 3 (2): 115-143.
(with Marjorie Raven) Caleb
Threlkeld's family. Glasra 3 (2): 161-166.
Robert Lloyd Praeger's
bibliography -- addenda and emendata. Glasra 3 (2): 167-169.
(with J. L. McCracken) Eileen
May McCracken (1920-1988) - additions to her bibliography. Glasra 3 (2):
171.
(with G. Zizka, R. Horres, K.
Weising) Revision of the genus Fascicularia Mez (Bromeliaceae). Botanical
journal of the Linnean Society 129 (4): 315-332.
Saint Bridgid, her anemones,
her Christmas roses and some daffodils. The new plantsman 6: 9-20.
Lemoine's bronze-leaved
Montbretia, Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora 'Solfatare'. The new
plantsman 6: 75-77.
2000
A history, mainly nomenclatural, of St Dabeoc's heath. Watsonia 23:
47-58.
(with G. Crompton) The herbarium of William Skrimshire (1766-1829) of Wisbech. Watsonia
23: 23-28.
Patrick Browne (c. 1720-1790), Irish physician, historian and Caribbean
botanist; a brief biography with an account of his lost medical dissertations. Huntia
11: 5-16.
(with P. H. Oswald) Jamaican plant genera named by Patrick Browne (c.
1720-1790): A checklist with an attempt at an etymology. Huntia 11:
17-30.
2001
Patrick Browne M.D. (c. 1720-1790), an Irish doctor in the Caribbean: his
residence on St Croix (1757-1765) and his unpublished accounts of the natural
history of Montserrat. Archives of natural history 28: 135-148.
(with D. Small) The names of hardy heathers: proposals for conservation of
cultivar names; trade designations; new cultivar names; and other names
requiring comment. Yearbook of the Heather Society: 45-55.
2002
Bog garden; Charles Darwin and Down House; National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin;
Herbarium; Ireland; Mount Stewart; James Niven; Richard Turner. In C. A.
Shoemaker (editor) Chicago Botanic Garden encyclopedia of gardens history and
design. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 3 volumes.
[Erica pallido-purpurea L. .. nom. illeg.] in S. Cafferty & C.
E. Jarvis (editors) Typification of Linnaean plant names in Ericaceae. Taxon
51: 753.
(with D. J. Small) David McClintock. Yearbook of The Heather Society:
1-4.
(with R. Desmond) Bibliography of William Thomas Stearn (1911-2001). Archives
of natural history 29: 144-170.
(with J. Parnell) An annotated bibliography of the Irish botanist William Henry
Harvey (1811-1866). Archives of natural history 29: 213-244.
William Harvey: Augustine Henry: David Moore: Richard Turner. In C. R.
Mollan, W. Davis and B. Finucane (editors) Irish innovators in science and
technology. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Pp 107-108; 176-177; 98-99; 77-78
(respectively).
The Lambert botanical volumes. In C. Fisher (editor) A passion for
natural history. The life and legacy of the 13th Earl of Derby.
Liverpool: National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. p. 163.
Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin volume 1- title-pages and
date of publication (1856). Archives of natural history 29: 399-402.
2003
James Howe and the design for a parterre at Leyrath, Kilkenny. In the shadow
of the steeple no. 8: 98-108.
Wisbech and Fenland Museum herbarium (WBCH): a history with a list of
collectors. Watsonia 24: 489-498.
A more closely circumscribed publication date for George Sinclair's Hortus
ericćus woburnensis (1825). Archives of natural history 30: 171-172.
W. H. Harvey to W. J. Hooker 25 November 1834: an amendment. Archives of
natural history 30: 172.
(with D. E. Allen, P. H. Oswald & M. Walpole) George Bentham's Handbook of
the British flora (1858-1954) and associated works: a check-list of editions
and issues. Archives of natural history 30: 250-254.
(with the Earl of Scarbrough) Erica savileae, the Countess of
Scarbrough's heath: a mystery resolved. Yearbook of The Heather Society 2003:
31-36.
Robert Brown's manuscript descriptions of British and Irish plants
(B.93)(1792-1800), with indexes to botanical names and places [in 3 parts]. The
Scottish naturalist 115: 115-179.
(with E. G. H. Oliver) Understanding Erica ×willmorei, a
nineteenth century English garden hybrid. Bothalia 33 (2): 149-154.
(with R. J. Cleevely & E. G. H. Oliver) More accurate publication dates for
H. C. Andrews' The Heathery, particularly volumes 5 and 6. Bothalia 33
(2): 195-198.
2004
(with T. Alm) Exotic drift-seeds in Norway. Transactions of the Royal
Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske
Videnskabers selskab, skrifter) 2004 (1): 1-24.
(with E. G. H. Oliver) Cape heaths in European gardens: the early history of
South African Erica species in cultivation, their deliberate hybridization and
the orthographic bedlam. Bothalia 34 (2): 127-140.
Foreword. In R. Levy-Yamamori and G. Taaffe, Garden plants of Japan.
Timber Press, Portland (Oregon) & Cambridge. Pp 7-8.
The Wheeler-Cuffe archive, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin: papers
about a Burmese serow and Kilkenny during the Civil War. Ossory, Laois and
Leinster 1: 182-201.
Augustine Henry, Matilda Knowles, David Moore, Alexander Goodman More, William
Robinson, Lydia Shackleton, Caleb Threlkeld, Walter Wade; and modifications to
other entries. The Oxford dictionary of national biography.
(with W. H. King) William Robinson in North America 1870. Studies in the
history of gardens and designed landscapes 24 (2): 116-132.
ABSTRACT. In 1870 William Robinson (1838–1935), one of the most significant horticulturists of recent centuries, spent 18 weeks travelling in Canada and the USA. Robinson’s itinerary between his arrival on 3 August in New York and his departure is traced and his scattered publications relating to North America are listed. London in Ontario was an early destination. Places he visited included the USDA Arboretum, Washington DC. He saw Central Park, New York, and was shown around Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by Frederick Law Olmstead. Philadelphia disappointed Robinson but Boston impressed him. Robinson met Professor Asa Gray, attended the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s annual show on 20 September, examined the Society’s library, and also visited Horatio Hollis Hunnewell’s arboretum at Wellesley. In early October Robinson left for California, travelling by rail. In San Francisco he visited gardens, vegetable markets and market gardens. Around mid-November, Robinson commenced his return journey, stopping in the Sierra Nevada where he collected living plants of Darlingtonia californica, Phyllodoce breweri, Penstemon menziesii var. robinsonii and Lilium pardalinum var. robinsonianum. Robinson diverted to Salt Lake City, and there visited Brigham Young’s garden. By 30 November he was back in New York, and on 7 December he departed for Europe. Why did Robinson visit North America? We propose that his trip was not undertaken for family reasons as suggested by his biographer, Mea Allan, but to advance his business interests, especially his books and his forthcoming periodical The garden. At the same time, he gathered information about North American horticulture and assembled a substantial cargo of living plants.
William McNab's herbarium in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN) with catalogues of specimens [from the Royal Gardens, Kew (1805–May 1810) relating to Hortus Kewensis (edition 2); from the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (May 1810–1818), and native plants from Scotland and England]. The Scottish naturalist 116: 43–199.
ABSTRACT. A catalogue has been compiled of specimens, now preserved in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN), which were collected by William McNab from cultivated plants grown at the Royal (Botanic) Gardens, Kew, between 1805 and 1810, and at the (Royal) Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, after May 1810 to 1818. Some specimens of native species from localities in Scotland and England are also listed. Among the important collectors represented by the cultivated plants are Robert Brown, Peter Good, George Caley, Archibald Menzies, William Kerr and Francis Masson. The specimens gathered in Kew may be significant in typifying names published in the second edition of Hortus Kewensis (W. T. Aiton). The catalogue is divided into 5 sections: 1 Royal Gardens, Kew; 2 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; 3 Native plants from Scotland and England; 4 Other sources: gardeners, nurserymen and collectors; and 5 Other sources: localities.
2005
(with P. H.
Oswald) Polifolia revisited and explained. Huntia 12: 5–11.
Clarification
of a publication date for George Bentham’s treatment of Ericeae (Ericaceae)
published in A.-P. de Candolle’s Prodromus volume 7 part 2 (December
1839). Archives of natural history 32:
107.
Erica mackaiana Bab. and Erica × stuartii (MacFarl.) Mast. (Ericaceae): two heathers new to
South Kerry (v. c. H1), Ireland. Watsonia 25: 414–417.
William Robinson’s The wild garden: origins and editions (1870–2003). Moorea 14:
25–33.
(with S. Cafferty) Proposal to reject the name Erica viridipurpurea (Ericaceae). Taxon 54 (1): 206.
2006
"Forsyth (fl. 1835)": a phantom botanical collector at the
Cape of Good Hope explained. Bothalia 36 (2): 167–168.
A portrait of Bartle Grant. Curtis’s botanical magazine 23 (3): 248–255.
2007
The original material of two Turkish species of Erica (Ericaceae) described and named by Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761-1829). Turkish journal of botany 31: 463–466.
ABSTRACT. The holotype of Erica spiculifolia Salisb., annotated by Salisbury, has been traced in The Natural History Museum, London. No holotype of Erica manipuliflora Salisb. has been located, and so a neotype, one of John Sibthorp’s specimens, has been designated in The Natural History Museum, London.
Key Words: Richard Salisbury, John Sibthorp, Ericaceae, Erica, Flora graeca, Turkey, holotypes, isotypes.
(with Ella May T. Wulff) (1786) Proposal to conserve the name Erica
manipuliflora against E. forskalii (Ericaceae). Taxon 56 (3): 959–961. ABSTRACT. Erica × williamsii
(Williams’ heath) is a naturally occurring hybrid between E. vagans (Cornish heath) and
E. tetralix (cross-leaved heath). In the wild it is only reported from Cornwall, and so is one of the endemic plants of Great Britain. Williams’ heath is also arguably one of the rarest British plants. In
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Erica × williamsii Druce (E. tetralix L. × vagans L.): a note on typification. Watsonia 26: 487–488.
Richard Salisbury FLS and the discovery of elaiosomes in Erica. The Linnean 23 (1): 26–30.
NB.
When published the Greek letters misprinted; a corrected version is available from
The Linnean Society’s website in pdf format.
(*W. H. King) James Lothian (1817–1871) and his book Practical hints on the culture and general management of alpine
or rock plants. Huntia 13 (2): 143–154.
Dr Patrick Browne and Sir Joseph Banks: a letter about a ‘lost’ Irish flora. Eighteenth century Ireland 21: 145–147.
NB. This was published without my consent, and without any proof being sent
for correction.
Erica × arendsiana (E. terminalis × cinerea): a hardy German hybrid re-created. Heathers 4: 59–60.
(*Ella May T. Wulff) Erica × gaudificans (E. spiculifolia × bergiana):
Kurt Kramer’s second north-south hybrid. Heathers 4: 57–58.
Williams’ heath: the wild-collected clones. Heathers 4: 45–56.
is article, relying substantially on meticulous notes assembled by the late Major-General Pat Turpin (recently passed to The Heather Society by Mrs Cherry Turpin), I have set out the details of the dozen known plants of
E. × williamsii.
Two plants are presently known to grow in Cornwall; one of these is the “parent” of ‘Cow-y-jack’, while the second was the plant found in 1990 by the late Dr David Coombe
which does not appear to be represented among the extant cultivars.
The hybrid has also be artificially synthesized, and two cultivars of horticultural origin are available.
2008
Identifying “Erica hirsuta anglica”. The Linnean 24 (2): 21–25.
Auctions, bankrupts and burglars, and the origin of “brier-wood pipes”. Heather news quarterly 31 (1): 11–12, 17–20.
The formation of the North American Heather Society: The Pacific Northwest Group of The Heather Society, 1977–1978.
Heather news quarterly 31 (2): 00–00.
(*D. Miller) The Heather Society’s Herbarium, and Ericaceae (Bruckenthalia, Daboecia, Erica) type specimens cited by D. C. McClintock (1913–2001).
Glasra 4: 109–117.
Typification of two horticultural hybrids in Erica (Ericaceae). Glasra 4: 107–108.
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