Genus Peglera
Pictures from Observations
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For Alice Marguerite Pegler (1861–1929), teacher, painter and East Cape collector around the area of Kentani where she lived. She corresponded with the leading botanists of South Africa including MacOwan, Bolus, Pearson, Selmar Schönland, Pole Evans, Kolbe and others. She collected over 2 000 specimens, most of which were from an area with a radius of 8 kilometres from the village of Kentani where she had settled. Her observations ‘On the flora of Kentani’ were published in Annals of the Bolus Herbarium 2:1–32 (1918), as they changed month to month throughout the year. When her eyesight began to fail she turned her attention to algae and fungi but had to give this up completely as her health deteriorated. She donated her personal herbarium to the Pretoria Museum.