> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 696](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212738) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11117-1) LSID 11117-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17022812) QID Q17022812 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Velley, Thomas (1749-1806), British soldier and botanist; D.C.L. Oxford Univ. 1787; lieutenant-colonel in the Oxford militia; long-time resident of Bath, botanising in association with J.E. Smith, D. Turner, J. Stackhouse, W. Watson and R. Relhan. **Abbreviated name**: *Velley* \[standard form in IPNI: *Velley*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LIV|LIV]]. – Further algae at [[Collection BM|BM]] (ex [[Collection K|K]]). – *Letters* at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 429 (d. 8 Jun 1806); BB p. 310; BM 5: 2201; CSP 6: 131; Dawson p. 844; Desmond p. 629; De Toni 1: cxxvii; DNB 20: 202 (G.S. Boulger); Dryander 3: 222; Frank 3 (Anh.): 108; Henrey 2: 158, 159, 632, 3: 130-131; Herder p. 255; Jackson p. 242; PR 9723, ed. 1: 10.693. #### Biofile - Blackler, H., North Western Naturalist 13: 72-78, *pl*. 5. 1938 (detailed account of herb. at LIV; bibl., further refs.). - Dallman, A.A. & M.H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool Bot. Soc. 1: 94. 1909. - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 93. 1934. - Dickinson, C.I., Phycol. Bull. 1: 14. 1952 (algae in herb. Hooker, Goodenough \[now BM\]. - Greenwood, E.F., Proc. Bot. Soc. Brit. Isl. 7(2): 171. 1968 (herb. LIV). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 83. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 263. 1984. - Smith, P., Mem. corr. J.E. Smith 2: 343-344. 1832. - Stansfield, H., Handb. guide herb. coll. Liverpool 54, *pl. 11.* 1935. #### Eponymy *Velleia* J.E. Smith (1798). ### Publications ##### n.15.998. Coloured figures of marine plants **Title** *Coloured figures of marine plants*, found on the southern coast of England; illustrated with descriptions and observations: accompanied with a figure of the Arabis stricta from St. Vincent's Rock. To which is prefixed an inquiry into the mode of propagation peculiar to sea plants... Plantarum maritimarum in oris Angliae australibus sponte crescentium, icones pictae; descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae. Necnon Arabis stricta, de rupe S. Vincentii, ad virum colorata. Quibus praefigitur disquisitio de plantarum maritimarum propagatione... Bathoniae... \[Bath\] (ex typogaphia S. Hazard) 1795. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Col. fig. mar.pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1795, p. \[i\], \[1\]-9, \[1\]-8, \[1-18 expl. *pl*.\], *pl. 1-5* (col. copp.). *Copies*: G, LIV, MO, PH. *Text, extract*: *in* J.J. Roemer, Arch. bot. 1(3): 108-118. Jul-Dec 1798. *Further contributions on marine plants*: Trans. Linn. Soc. 5: 145-159, 274. 22 Feb 1800 (*Remarks on nature and propagation of marine plants*), 5: 169-170. 22 Feb 1800 (*Description of Conferva umbilicata*).