Person botanist plant collector
Francis Masson
Francisco Masson
botanist · plant collector
English botanist Francis Masson, who carried out the first systematic botanical explorations of the Madeira archipelago between 1776 and 1785 and sent specimens to Joseph Banks. His Madeiran herbarium is held in the British Museum.
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- Moniz (João Maria) — Botanist whose British Museum herbarium held a Euphorbia that Moniz proved came from Madeira.
- Herbaria — Plant collector whose Madeiran herbarium is in the British Museum.
- Nurseries and acclimatisation gardens — Botanical collector who explored Madeira in 1776 and 1777.
