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33: 132:. 5: 1-32 (1918). She did not confine herself to the flora, but also collected beetles, gall flies, spiders, and scorpions. In 1903, she travelled to the Transvaal and collected between 108:
While in Kentani she started an extensive collection of all flora within a radius of 5 miles of the village. Her collecting led to a regular correspondence with botanists such as
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In the seven years preceding her death, she became a helpless invalid. Her specimens which numbered 2 000 were donated to the South African National Botanical Institute in
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where she raised and educated her nieces. She suffered health problems throughout her life and endured chronic trouble with her eyesight.
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The daughter of S. Mackin Pegler, Alice was educated at the Dominican Convent in
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In 1912, she was paid the exceptional honour of being made a member of the
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Index

Black and white picture of Alice Pegler
Keiskammahoek
Umtata
King William's Town
Kentani
Peter MacOwan
Harry Bolus
HHW Pearson
Selmar Schonland
Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans
Rustenburg
Johannesburg
algae
fungi
Pretoria
Linnaean Society
Aloe peglerae
Chionanthus
Puccinia
Uromyces
Ustilago
doi
10.1111/j.1095-8312.1912.tb00020.x
ISSN
0370-0461
"Nectaropetalum information from NPGS/GRIN"
the original
Gunn & Codd 1981
Gunn, Mary
Codd, L. E. W.

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