Botanical Article Bibliographic Records

HI Number 153620

Author: Wallich, N. Nathanael
Coauthors:
Title: Mr. Moorcroft's account of Prangos, a plant used in Droz for making hay; communicated to the Society by the sanction of Government.
MLP no: 1364
BPH Series Abbreviation: Trans. Agric. Soc. India
Citation: 1: 93-96. 1829
Year(s): 1829
Note: Two letters, one a covering letter to the society, dated Nov. 19, 1823, and one he had written to C. Lushington acknowledging receipt of the latter, Morecroft's account of the prangos plant, with seeds and plants of the herb, which Lushington had received from W.B. Bayley, Secretary to the Government, to whom Moorcroft had sent them in the first place.
Wallich gives his opinion on which family the plant belonged to, etc. and suggested that the seeds should be sent to other places for experiments in growths in a variety of conditions.
Moorcroft's account follows on pp. 95-103 - separate B form.
Account sent from Moorcroft to Bayley, from Bayley to Lushington, Lushington to Wallich, letter from Wallich to Lushington.