Caleb Threlkeld (1676–1728) was an

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. He wrote the first flora of Ireland under the title ''Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta'' which was published in Dublin in 1726. An appendix was based on botanical notes made by Thomas Molyneux.

References

*Nelson, E.C., Raven, M., 1998. Caleb Threlkeld’s family. ''Glasra'' 3: 161-166

*Nelson, E.C.,1978 The Publication Date of the First Irish Flora. Caleb Threlkeld's Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, 1726.' ''Glasra'' 2: 37-42

{{DEFAULTSORT:Threlkeld, Caleb 19th-century Irish botanists 1676 births 1728 deaths 19th-century Irish clergy