The fertile polyploid with 36 chromosomes was formed at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew among infertile hybrids between P. verticillata, originating from Africa and Asia, and P. floribunda, from the Himalayas.
[1] The hybrids had been noticed in 1899 by staff at Kew, particularly Frank Garett, and were awarded a First Class certificate at a Royal Horticultural Society meeting in 1900.
[5] Digby made measurements of chromosome length, width and number during meiosis in both plants (such as smooth hawk's-beard (Crepis virens) and Primula) and animals such as Helix pomatia and Homarus gammarus.
She worked with Farmer on chromosome counts of the intergeneric hybrid fern Schneider’s Polypody, Polypodium schneideri.
[14] During the First World War she spent time working as a laboratory assistant at the South African Military Hospital in Richmond Park, London.
Glynn of University of Liverpool to study pneumococcal infections using serological and bacteriological methods, financed by the Medical Research Council.