Eliza Standerwick Gregory or Eliza Standerwick Barnes (6 December 1840 – 22 March 1932) was a British botanist.

Life

Eliza Standerwick Barnes was born in

Thrapston Thrapston is a market town in North Northamptonshire, England. It was the headquarters of the former East Northamptonshire district, and at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census, had a population of 6,239. The town's name mea ...

in Northamptonshire in 1840. She was always interested in botany but she did not become a published botanist until she was older at the age of 64. Her special knowledge was of

violets Violet identifies various plant taxa, particularly species in the genus ''Viola'', within which the common violet is the best known member in Eurasia and the common blue violet and common purple violet are the best known members in North America ...

and she published a monograph in 1912. Her botanical abbreviation is from her married name and is "Greg."Eliza Standerwick Gregory née BARNES
herbariaunited.org, retrieved 10 March 2014 She published several times in the Journal of Botany. Gregory is credited with the discovery of the Cornish fumitory, ''

Fumaria occidentalis ''Fumaria occidentalis'', the western ramping-fumitory, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Fumaria'' that is endemic to Cornwall. It is the largest of the British fumitories, and was discovered in 1904. Distribution ''Fumaria occide ...

''. She reported that she found it on the edge of a wood at Lelant.according to F. Hamilton Davey's Flora of Cornwall (1909)
/ref> Gregory died in Weston-super-Mare. Her

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

is in the Natural History Museum. It includes samples from southern England and from Northern Ireland.

References

1840 births 1932 deaths People from Thrapston {{UK-botanist-stub