> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 149](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189620) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7480-1) LSID 7480-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q647384) QID Q647384 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pena, Pierre (*fl*. 1520-1600), French botanist and physician; collaborated with L'Obel at Montpellier (1565) and in England 1566-1572); from then onward practicing physician in France, ultimately as chief physician of Henri III. **Abbreviated name**: *Pena* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pena*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Legré (1899) states that Pena and L'Obel took their herbaria with them to London in 1566, but no trace of plant collections made by them is known. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 65; BB p. 240; BM 4: 1541; Desmond p. 487; Dryander 3: 57; DTS 1: xxii; Frank 3(Anh.): 75; HA 1: 351-353; Herder p. 83; HU 183; Jackson p. 26; JW 5: 248; Kew 4: 264; Moebius p. 32; NI 1502, see also 1: 61; Oudemans p. 221-222; PR 7029 (ed. 1: 658); Rehder 5: 658; Saccardo 2: 83; TL-2/4308, 4906,4907; see L'Obel; Tucker 1: 546. #### Biofile - Briquet, J., Ber. Schweiz bot. Ges. 50a: 362-364. 1940 (bibl., biogr., epon.). - Cavillier, F., Boissiera 5: 70. 1941. - Haller, A. de, Hist. stirp. Helv. 1: xiii. 1768. - Kent, D.H., Hist. Fl. Middlesex 12. 1975. - Legré, L., La botanique en Provence au xvième siècle, Pierre Pena et Mathias de Lobel, Marseille 1899 (see TL-2/4308) ("... doit être considéré un chef d'oeuvre de sagacité" Briquet 1940; Indigénat en Provence du Styrax officinal. Pierre Pena et Fabri de Peirese. Marseille 1901, 23 p. (n.v., see J. Bot. 40: 116. 1902), see also Bull. Soc. bot. France 44: xi-xlvii. 1897, 46 (bibl.): 544-545. 1899. - Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 31: 18. 1906. - Martins, C., Le jardin des plantes de Montpellier 12. 1854. - O., Dict. Sci. med., Biogr. méd. 6: 387. 1824. - Planchon, J.E., Rondelet et ses disciples, Montpellier 1866, p. 18, 34-37. - Wright, R., Gardener's tribute 230 f., 237 s.d. #### Eponymy *Penaea* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.7625. Stirpium adversaria nova **Title** *Stirpium adversaria nova* perfacilis vestigatio luculentaque accessio ad priscorum, presertim Dioscorides & recentiorum materiam medicam. Quinus praediem accedit altera pars. Conjectaneorum de plantis appendix. De succis medicatis et metallicis sectio. Antiquae et novatae medicinae lectiorum remediorum thesaurus opulentissimus, de succedaneis libellus continentur... \[Londini (Thomas Purfoot) 1570\] 1571. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Stirp. advers. nov.* **Notes** *Co-author*. Matthias L'Obel (share of authors not established). *Publ*.: Jan 1571 (see p. 442), p. \[i-xxi\], 1-442. *Copy*: USDA. *Subsequent editions*: see e.g. L'Obel, PR 7029, Dryander 3: 57, Legré (1899), p. 33-38 and Louis (1958). The 1576 and 1605 editions were reissues of the sheets printed in 1570 by Thomas Purfoot. The altera pars in the 1605 ed. is by L'Obel. *Ref*.: Corbett, M., Arch. nat. Hist. 10(1): 111-117. 1981 (on emblematic t.p.).