> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 558](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212600) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10938-1) LSID 10938-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933674) QID Q5933674 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tweedie, John \["James"\] (1775-1862), British (Scottish) gardener at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire and Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; to Buenos Aires, Argentina 1825, travelled and collected up the Uruguay river in Argentina, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catharina, Rio de Janeiro (1832), in the Tucuman region (1835) at the Serra de Tandil (1837). **Abbreviated name**: *Tweedie* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tweedie*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; further material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 602; Barnhart 3: 411; BB p. 308; Clokie p. 257; CSP 6: 73, 12: 744; Dawson p. 625 (b. 10/12 Apr 1775, d. 1 Apr 1862); Lasègue p. 486-487; PR alph. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Bot. ser. 2. 35: 449. 1863 (obit. not.); Bonplandia 10: 217. 1862 (obit. not.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 9 (bibl.): 319-320. 1862 (obit. not.); Gard. Chron. 1862: 597 (obit.); Gard. Monthly 4(10): 312-314. 1862; Österr. bot. Z. 12: 266. 1862 (d.); Rev. hortic. 1862: 264-265 (obit.). - Castellanos, A., Holmbergia 4(8): 3-14. 1945 (on botanical expl. in Argentina 1810-1853, especially those of Tweedie; portrait with signature "John Tweedie"; detailed treatment; eponymy, list publ., sources). - Castellanos, A. & R.A. Pérez Moreau, Lilloa 7: 370, 381, 389, 470, 490. 1941 (bibl.). - Coats, A.M., Plant hunters 357-359. 1969. - Martius, C.F.P. von, Flora 20(2): 48. 1837. - Parodi, L.R., Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 9: 8-9. 1963 (brought over by J. & W.R. Robinson, to develop a garden at their estate Santa Catalina). - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 20: 256. 1862 (obit. not.). - Souza Sobrinho, R.J. de, Insula 8: 16-17. 1975-1976 (Santa Catarina coll.). - Turrill, W.B., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1920: 61 (coll.). - Tweedie, J., Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 235-236. 1835 (letter to W.J. Hooker); Ann. nat. Hist. 1: 139-147. 1838 (Journal of an excursion from Buenos Aires to the Serras de Tandil), 4: 8-15, 96-104, 171-179. 1839 (Extracts from a few rough notes of a journey across the Pampas of Buenos Aires to Tucuman in 1835). - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 123. 1906 (curr. vitae, itin., sec. refs.). #### Eponymy *Tweedia* W.J. Hooker et Arnott (1834).