Sereno Watson [SEP] place of death
Sereno Watson
Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut – March 9, 1892 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American botanist.
Graduating from Yale in 1847 in Biology, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined the Clarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist. Appointed by Asa Gray as assistant in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University in 1873, he later became its curator, a position he maintained until his death. Watson was elected a Fellow of the
plant was only a sister plant to the actual plant that was eaten. On the flower there is also a very attractive darker blue selection, 'Zwanenburg', which is named after the place in Haarlem where the famous van Tubergen bulb nursery was based for many years. The botanist Sereno Watson is credited with naming this plant, most likely when we was collecting species during the "U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel" from 1867-1871. The species was first formally published by Watson in "Notes and Notices of