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Pasmore, Rev. Henry (d. before 1699); d. Jamaica, before 

 1699. Sent plants to Petiver. Mus. Pet. 46. 



Paterson, John Ligertwood (1820-82): b. Midmar, Aber- 

 deensh.,1820; d. Brazil, 9 Dec, 1882. M.D. F.B.S.Bd., 

 1872. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xvi. 9. 



Paterson, William (d. 1810) : b. Montrose ? ; d. on voyage from 

 Australia, 21 June, 1810. Colonel. F.E.S. ; P.L.S., 1797. 

 In S. Africa, 1777-9. ' Narrative of Journeys,' 1789. Lieut. - 

 Governor, Botany Bay, 1800-10. Collected in S. Africa and 

 Australia. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. Brown, Prodr. 803 ; 

 PI. Tasmania, cxxiv. ; Lasegue, 278, 446 ; Cott. Gard. viii. 

 329, &c. ; ix. 3. Patersonia Br. 



Patrick, Rev. William (fl. 1831). 'Indigenous Plants of 

 Lanarkshire, with an introduction to Botany,' 1831. Pritz. 

 241 ; Jacks. 255. 



Patton, George (1803-69) : b. 1803 ; d. Glenahnond, Perth, 

 30 Sept., 1869. Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, 1867, as 

 Lord Glenalmond. Chairman, Oregon Bot. Assoc. Intro- 

 duced Gupressus Lawsoniana and Ahies Pattoniana. Gard. 

 Chron. 1869, 1048. 



Paxton, Sir Joseph (1803-65) : b. Milton Bryant, Beds., 8 Aug., 

 1803; d. Sydenham, 8 June, 1865. F.L.S., 1833. Foreman, 

 Chiswick Arboretum, 1824. Superintendent, Chatsworth, 1826. 

 Knighted, 1851. M.P. for Coventry, 1854. 'Magazine of 

 Bot.,' 1834. Travelled through S. Europe and Levant, 1888. 

 'Pocket Bot. Dictionary,' 1840. Pritz. 242; Jacks. 590; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1865-6, Ixxxi. ; Journ. Bot. 1865, 231 ; Gard. 

 Chron. 1865, 554 ; Journ. Hort. viii. (1865), 446, with portr. ; 

 and ix. 12. Paxtonia Lindl. 



Peach, Charles William (1800-86) : b. Wansford, Northants, 

 30 Sept., 1800 ; d. Edinburgh, 28 Feb., 1886. Coastguards- 

 man and naturalist. A.L.S.,1868. NeillMedal, E.S.E.,1876. 

 Papers on fossil plants in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xii. & xiii., 

 &c. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-86, 146; E. S. C. iv. 791 ; Smiles, 

 ' 'Eobert Dick ' ; Scott. Nat. 1886, 289 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 

 xvii. 11 ; Journ. Northampton N.H. Soc. 1886, 33. 



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

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

 1809-19. Sentplants 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, 19 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. Sternon- 

 acanthus Pearcei Hook. f. 



Pechey, John (1654-1698 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.E.O.P., 1684. ' Herbal of Physical Plants, 

 1694. Pult. i. 184; Pritz. 248; Jacks. 690; Munk. i. 433 

 Athen. Ox. iv. 787. Pecheya Scop. 



