List of plants collected from Cape of Good Hope by John Forbes, headed 'Cape Herbarium'
Information
Title
List of plants collected from Cape of Good Hope by John Forbes, headed 'Cape Herbarium'
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
RHS/Col/3/4/11
Date
10-26 Jul 1822
Scope & content
List of plants, numbered (specimens 1-310) and arranged in columns with the headings 'month', 'no', 'class', 'genus', 'species' and 'remarks'. Includes a species of Melanthium ('mountains, sides [of] streams'), a species of Pteris ('moist, sandy banks'), a species of Erica ('sandy marshes, flower yellow', a species of Hermannia ('sandy soil, flower yellow') and a species of Oxalis ('marshy places, flower deep red') [here the list includes 305 more plants)
Extent
6 pages (6 sheets)
Is part of
RHS archive: plant collector papers
Repository
Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
Copyright
Royal Horticultural Society
Credit Line
RHS Lindley Collections
Usage terms
Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)