> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 509](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120640) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1684-1) LSID 1684-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17893) QID Q17893 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Clayton, John (1686-1773), British physician in Virginia, correspondent of Gronovius. **Abbreviated name**: *Clayton* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Clayton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (via Gronovius herbarium and Banks), also material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – Topotypes at [[Collection GLEN|GLEN]]. Clayton's own herbarium was destroyed (Britten 1909). *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 101, 2: 130. - Blake, Rhodora 20: 21-28, 48-54, 65-73. 1918, see also Bot. Centralbl. 141: 237-238. 1919 (notes on the Clayton herb.). - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 146. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 430; Barnhart 1: 355; BB p. 66; BM 1: 356; DNB 11: 13 (inaccurate); GR p. 393; Kew 1: 567; KR p. 122; ME 1: 172, 3: 342-343. - Madison, Barton et al., Philad. med. phys. J. 2(1): 139-150. 1805. - Britten, J. Bot. 47: 297-301. 1909 (corr. of DNB). - Kelly, Cycl. Amer. med. Biogr. 1: 185. 1912. - Kelly, Some American med. Botanists 44-48. 1914. - Sargent, Rhodora 17: 39-40. 1915 (on three of his oaks). - Blake, Rhodora 20: 21-28, 48-54, 65-73. 1918. - Fox, Fothergill 425. 1919. - Slaughter *in* Kelly and Burrage, Amer. med. Biogr. 226. 1920. - Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 184 \[index\]. 1940. - Eddy, Garden J. New York Bot. Gard. 1(3): 85-87. 1951. - Lewis, Virginia J. Sci. ser. 2. 8: 35-41. 1957. - Zirkle, Virginia Mag. Hist. Biogr. 67: 284-294. 1959 (1960). - Frick and Stearns, Mark Catesby 131 \[index\]. 1961. - Berkeley, Edm. and D. S., John Clayton, pioneer of American botany. Chapel Hill 1963, 236 p. (see also Stannard, Isis 55 (3, 181): 391-392. 1964). - Hoffman, Ethnohistory 11 (1): 1-40. 1964 (on confusion with John Clayton, minister at Jamestown 1684-1686). - Leroy, J. Agric, trop. Bot. appl. 11(12): 600-603. 1964. - Boone, Hist. bot. West Virginia 4, 7, 8. 1965. - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr Alexander Garden of Charles Town 372. 1969. #### Composite works see Gronovius, *Flora virginica*, 1739-1743, ed. 2 1762, based mainly on Clayton material. #### Eponymy *Claytonia* Linnaeus (1753).