Draba peasei

[Melanie]

Draba peasei was a plant which only occur on the Mount Saint Alban in
the Forillon National Park in Gaspèsie, Canada. This plant was
discovered in 1928 by the Harvard Professor Arthur Stanley Pease at
the top of a scree. A few years later, in 1934, this plant was
recognized as a distinct species by the botanist Merrit Lyndon
Fernald who dedicated it to its discoverer. Brother Rolland
Germain another famous botanist collected it in 1936. Despite of the efforts made by the botanist Pierre Morisset in the years 1970 and 1990, the species was
not re-examined, so that it is regarded as disappeared.

Today Draba peasei is seen as variety of Draba incerta which is still exist

[Melanie]

Noted botanist Merrit Lyndon Fernald (1873-1950) was a close friend of Pease, and wrote, "how, with such a keen interest in plants and their natural habitats, he was lured into classical philology is beyond the comprehension of a mere botanist of more limited horizon" (Fernald, Merritt L. 1951. Arthur Stanley Pease, the Botanical Explorer. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 60: 11-21). An account of some of their adventures in the Gaspe Peninsula in 1923 can be found here. Fernald named Draba peasei found near Cape Rosier on the Gaspe Peninsula, in his friend's honor:

Draba Peasei, with which it is a great pleasure to associate the name of its discoverer, ARTHUR STANLEY PEASE, distinguished classical scholar and keen amateur botanist, was at first identified by me as D. oligosperma Hook. of the Rocky Mountain region and under that name was reported by Pease, RHODORA, xxxi. 55 (1929). [Fernald, M. L. (1934) Draba in temperate northeastern America. Rhodora 36: 298-299.]

[koeiyabe]

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