> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 286](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212328) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10620-1) LSID 10620-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21610684) QID Q21610684 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thomson, Spencer (c. 1817-1886), British physician and popular writer on botany and medicine; MD St. Andrews 1840; practicing physician at Burton-on-Trent and Torquay. **Abbreviated name**: *Sp. Thomson* \[standard form in IPNI: *S.Thomson*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 379; BB p. 300; BM 5: 2100; CSP 5: 970; Desmond p. 609 (d. 12 Aug 1886); Jackson p. 42, 51; NI 3: 64 (195on); PR 9231-9232; Rehder 1: 400, 401. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. bot. 3: 2404. 1878. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 340. 1980. ### Publications ##### n.14.268. Wanderings among the wild flowers **Title** *Wanderings among the wild flowers*: how to see and how to gather them. With two chapters on the economical and medicinal uses of our native plants... London 1854. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Wander. wild fl.* **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1854 (p. viii: Jun 1854), p. \[i\]-xix, \[1\]-318, n.v. *Ed. 2*: 1854, p. \[i\]-xix, \[1\]-318, n.v. *Ed. 3*: 1856, p. \[i\]-xix, \[1\]-314. *Copy*: NY. – London (William Wesley,...) 1856. *Ed. 4*: 1857, frontisp., p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-xx, \[21\]-309, \[310\], *pl. 1-7* (col., Noel Humphreys). *Copy*: NY (1859). "*Wild flowers*: how... New edition, revised..." London (Routledge, Warner, and Routledge,...); also: New York (18, Beekman Street) 1859. Oct., *copy*: NY. *New edition*: 1864, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[21\]-322, *pl. 1-8. Copy*: NY. – "*Wild flowers*: where to find, and how to know them..." London (id.), New York (id.). 1864. Oct. *New edition*: s.d. p. \[i\]-xvi, \[21\]-322, *pl. 1-8. Copy*: B-S. – London (George Routledge and Sons,...) New York (9 Lafayette Place) s.d. ##### n.14.269. Wayside weeds **Title** *Wayside weeds* or, botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows. With a chapter on classification... London (Groombridge and Sons,...) 1864. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Wayside weeds*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1864, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-212. *Copy*: NY.