Species Buddleja virgata

For Adam Buddle (1660–1715), English amateur botanist, vicar of Farnham, Essex, and collector of British plants. He was educated at Cambridge University, obtaining a BA degree in 1681 and an MA degree in 1685 and was ordained into the Church of England in 1703. Further details of his life are obscure. He is credited with creating Britain’s first herbarium and he compiled a new English flora, completed in 1708, but it was never published; the original manuscript is preserved at the Natural History Museum, London. He established a reputation as an authority on bryophytes.