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Pearce, Nathaniel (c. 1780-1820) : b. East Acton, Middlesex, 

 circ. 1780 ; d. Alexandria, 12th Aug. 1820. Lived in Abyssinia, 

 1809-1819. Sent plants to Brown. 'Account of Abyssinia,' 

 New Monthly Mag. 1821. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. 'Life 

 and Adventures,' autobiog., 1831 ; Salt's 'Abyssinia'; Michaud. 



Pearce, Richard (d. 1868) : d. Panama, 19th July, 1868. Of 

 Stoke Devonport. Collector for Messrs. Veitch and Bull. 

 Plants at Kew and Brit. Mus. Journ. Bot. 1868, 320 ; Gard. 

 Chron. 1868, 874, 893; Journ. Hort. xv. (1868), 134. Stemon- 

 acanthus Pearcei Hook. f. 



Pechey, John (1654-1693 or 1717) : b. Chichester, Dec. 1654 ; 

 d. Chichester, May, 1693, or June, 1717 ; bur. St. Peter the 

 Less or St. Andrew, Chichester. B.A., Oxon, 1675. M.A., 

 1678. M.D. F.R.C.P., 1684. ' Herbal of Physical Plants,' 

 1694. Pult. i. 184; Pritz. 243; Jacks. 590; Munk, i. 433. 

 Pecheya Scop. 



Peddie, Lieut.-Col. (fl. 1840) : Lieut.-Col. 72nd Eegt. Collected 

 at Natal, 1839-40. Journ. Bot. 1840, 124, 265. Peddiea Harv. 



Peete, William (1771-1848) : b. 27th June, 1771 ; d. Bromley, 

 Kent, 4th Feb. 1848; F.L.S., 1794. Surgeon at Dartford 

 38 years. Described Silene patens for Eng. Bot. 2748. Contrib. 

 to Phyt. i. 587. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 377. 



Penfold, Jane Wallas (fl. 1845). Lived in Madeira. '- Madeira 

 Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns,' 1845 (plates drawn by her). Pritz. 

 243 ; Jacks. 352. 



Penneck, Rev. Henry (1801-1862) : b. Penzance, 1801 ; d. same 

 place, 24th April, 1862. M.A., Camb., 1830; Oxon, 1847. 

 Curate of Morvah, 1826. A.L.S. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 

 850, 2818, 2845, &c. Had a herbarium. Gent. Mag. 1862, ii. 

 106 ; Jones, ' Bot. Tour,' Devon and Cornwall, 29, 30. 



Penny, George (d. 1838 or 1839). Nurseryman. Of Epsom, 

 Surrey. A.L.S., 1829. ' Hortus Epsomensis.' Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 36. 



Penny, Rev. Thomas (d. 1589). B.A., Camb., 1551. M.A., 

 1559. D.D. F.B.C.P.,1582. Prebendary of St. Paul's, 1560. 

 Entomologist. ''A second Dioscorides," Gerard. Pult. i. 84; 

 Lobel, 'Adversaria,' 358, 394, 397; Cooper, Athene Cantab, 

 ii. 78 ; Munk, i. 82 ; Rose. Myrtocistus Penncei Clusius = 

 Hypericum balearicum. 



Percival, Thomas (1740-1804) : b. Warrington, 29th Sept. 1740; 

 d. Manchester, 30th Aug. 1804. M.D., Leyden, 1765. F.R.S. 

 Practised in Manchester from 1767. ' Perceptive Power of 

 Vegetables,' Manchester Phil. Soc. Mem. ii. 1789, 122. ' Works,' 

 with memoir, 1807 ; Pritz. 243 ; Jacks. 82 ; R. S. C. iv. 823. 



Percy, John (1817-1889) : b. Nottingham, 1817 ; d. June, 1889. 

 Metallurgist. M.D., Edinb. F.B.S. M.B.S.E., 1837. Col- 

 lected in S.E. France and Switzerland, 1836-7. Plants in 

 Edinburgh University Herbarium. First Report Bot. Soc. 

 Edinburgh, 43-45 (1836) ; Trans. B. S. Ed. xvii. 522. 



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