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William Darby ( - fl. 1696-1709)

Botanist and gardener, with a commercial nursery in Hoxton (Jarvis, 307) Botanist
 Relevant locations: Lived at or near Hoxton, London
Owned Darby's garden, Hoxton
 Relationships: William Darby was a associate or acquaintance (general) of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)

 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - 'The most common grass, rush, moss, fern, thistles, thorns or vilest weeds you can find': James Petiver's plants.
 References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 617. Baccifera Caroliniana capreolata Pisi cordati folio. an? Quauhmecatl, seu Sarsaparilla 2. Hernand. p. 289. Fig. This I first observed in Mr. Darby's Garden at Hoxton.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 673. Pulegium Carolinianum Thymi odore. This I observed in Mr. William Darby's Garden at Hoxton.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 901. Convolvulus Carolinianus, fl. minore sanguineo. This is a pretty ornamental Plant, and hath flowered plentifully in Mr. William Darby's Garden at Hoxton.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 2. Cantharis azureus perelegans. I first receiv'd this in Mr Darby his Collection of Insects formerly gave me, and have since observed it about Houses.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 5. Darby's Brass Moth, Cat. 18. These Wings are mostly of a greenish Brass Lustre, with brown fields and pale Edges.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 7. Fine, many feathered Moth, Cat. 13. This is a very elegant small motled Moth, each Wing divided into about 10 Feathers. I first observed it May 1. 1696. in Mr. Darby's Garden at Hoxton, and since that almost annually in our Physick Garden at Chelsey, about the same Season.
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) 29. Carolina Globe-Tree. 29. Valerianoides Americana flore globoso, Pishaminis folio Mus. Petiv. 293.  Arbor Americana tryphyla, frctu Platani quodammodo æmulante; Lignum Fibularium (i. e.) Button-wood nostratibus dicta Pluk. Tab. 77. Fig. 3. Alm. Bot. 47.  Scabiosa dendroides Americana, ternis foliis circa caulem ambientibus, floribus ochroleucis Alm. Bot. 336.  This formerly grew at the Physick Garden at Chelsey, and this Year I saw it in Mr. William Darby's Garden at Hodgson.  I have put this Plant (until I find a more proper N. B. Place) next to the Valerians, because its Flowers are very like them.