> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 444](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189915) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8024-1) LSID 8024-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21337870) QID Q21337870 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Purchas, William Henry (1823-1903), British botanist and clergyman; B.A. Durham 1857; ord. Church of England 1857; serving at Tickenhall (S. Leicestershire) 1857-1865, Lydney (Gloucestershire) 1865, Gloucester (1866-1870), Alstonfield (N. Staffordshire) 1870-1903; ardent amateur botanist, especially interested in Rubus, Rosa and Hieracium. **Abbreviated name**: *Purchas* \[standard form in IPNI: *Purchas*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBY|DBY]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – Portrait at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 115; BB p. 250; BL 2: 234, 245, 705; BM 4: 1623; Bossert p. 319; Clokie p. 229; CSP 5: 43, 8: 673, 17: 1046; Desmond p. 507; Jackson p. 253; Kew 4: 376; Rehder 5: 694; Tucker 1: 573. #### Biofile - Babington, C.C., Mem. Journ. bot. corr. 474 \[index, many refs.!\] 1897. - Edees, E.S., Fl. Staffordshire 20-21. 1972. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 288. 1980. - Horwood, A.R. & C.W.F. Noel, Fl. Leicestershire ccxviii. 1933. - Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 54. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 74. 1957. - Ley, A., J. Bot. 42: 80-82. 1904 (portr., b. 12 Dec 1823, d. 16 Dec 1903). - Riddelsdell, H.J., Fl. Gloucestershire cxxxi. 1948. - Wade, A.E., Fl. Monmouthshire 12, 15. 1970. ### Publications ##### n.8401. A flora of Herefordshire **Title** *A flora of Herefordshire*. Part i.... Hereford (printed by William Phillips, High Town, for the Woolhope Naturalist's Field Club) 1867. Oct. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Herefordshire*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1867, map, p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[1\]-25, followed by W.S. Symonds, Flora of Herefordshire, Definition of districts, \[1\]-25, \[26\], both issued as part of the Trans. Woolhope Natural. Field Club 1866. *Copy*: PH. – Not continued in this form. *Definitive edition*: Apr 1889 (p. xi: Jan 1889; J. Bot. Mai 1889), map, p. \[i\]-xxxvii, \[1\]-549, *pl. 1-2* \[5\] (uncol.). *Copies*: HH, NY, UC. – "*A flora of Herefordshire*. Edited by William Henri Purchas,... and Augustin Ley \[1842-1911\]... Hereford (Jakeman and Carver,...) \[1889\]. Oct. (in fours). – *Fungi* by W.C. Cooke; *Definition of the botanical districts*... by W.S. Symonds (re-written). *Ref*.: Marshall, E.S., J. Bot. 27: 216-220. 1889 (rev.).