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### Author
Pollexfen, John Hutton (1813-1899), British physician and algologist; MD Edinburgh 1835, B.A. Cantab. 1843; ordained 1844, from then on clergyman at Colchester, East Wetton and from 1874-1899 vicar at the parish of Middleton Tyas.
**Abbreviated name**: *Pollexf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pollexf.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]] and [[Collection U|U]]; fossil algae at Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 96; BB p. 246 ("recte Pollexsen"); Desmond p. 499.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1900: 47 (death).
- Batters, E.A.L., J. Bot. 37: 438-439. 1899 (obit., d. 5 Jun 1899)
- Dickinson, C.I., Phycol. Bull. 1: 13. 1952.
- Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 119. 1970 (algae at E).
#### Eponymy
*Pollexfenia* Harvey (1844).