> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 983](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121114) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19574-1) LSID 19574-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347356) QID Q347356 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Gray, Asa (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Gray, Asa (1810-1888), American botanist at Harvard University. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Gray* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Gray*\] #### Herbarium, types and original manuscripts, archives, correspondence [[Collection GH|GH]]. – North American material distributed by Asa Gray is in many herbaria (see IH). *Exsiccatae*: North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae, see below (no. 2119). *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 359, 2: 237. - Day, Rhodora 3: 243-244. 1901. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 350. 1916. - Newton, Phycol. Bull. 1: 16. 1952. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 173. 1964. - Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 85. 1970. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuser. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 185-187. 1973 (corr., mss. at NY). - Lenley et al., Index corr. Torrey 456-458. 1973. - Meyer and Elsasser, Taxon 22: 392. 1973. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 13; Barnhart 2: 78; Bossert p. 151; BM 2: 709-711, 6: 393; Bretschneider 1: 388, 390; CSP 2: 994-996, 7: 818-819, 10: 48-49, 12: 290, 15: 431; DAB 7: 511-514; GR p. 219; IF p. 699; Jackson p. 552 \[index\]; LS 10326; ME 1: 188-189, 3: 584 \[index\]; MW p. 142-143; NI 749-751; PR 3522-3532, ed. 1: 3846-3852; Quenstedt p. 171; SO ind. authors 25; Zander ed. 10, p. 664. - Anon., The Colorado Miner 6(14): I. 1872. - Barnes, Bot. Gaz. 11: 1-6, 7-10. 1886 (portr.) - Sargent, Asa Gray, Boston 1886, 16 p., reprinted from the "Sun" Newspaper 3 Jan 1886. - American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memorial of Asa Gray. Cambridge 1888, 45 p. - Britten, J. Bot. 26: 161-167. 1888 (portr.) - Dana, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 35: 181-203. 1888; Smiths. Inst. ann. Rep. 1888: 745-825. 1890 (bibl.) - Deane, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 15: 59-72. 1888 (portr.) - Duchartre, J. de Bot. 2: 133-140. 1888. - Farlow, Bot. Gaz. 13: 49-52. 1888, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 6: xxxi-xxxviii. 1888. - Hoffmann, Pharm. Rundschau 6(3). 1888 (portr.) - McKenzie et al., In memoriam Asa Gray, Cambridge 1888. - Riley, Bot. Gaz. 13: 178-186. 1888. - Rothrock, Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1 Feb 1888. - Watson and Goodale, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 36 (app.): 1-42. 1888; Ann. Bot. 2: 401-414 (extensive bibl.) - W. G. F., Bot. Gaz. 13: 49-52. 1888. - Anon., The New York Times 31 Jan 1888. - Magnus, Naturwiss. Rundschau 3(11): \[6 p.\]. 1889(?), repr. DS. - Sargent, Scientific papers of Asa Gray. Boston 1889, 2 vols. - Goodale, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 24: 191-198. 1890. - Gray, J. L., Letters of Asa Gray, Boston, London 1893, 2 vols. \["Gray, Letters"\] (bibl.) - Farlow, Nat. Acad. Sci. Biogr. Mem. 3: 161-175. 1895. - Babington, Memorials x, 231. 1897. - Harshberger, Bot. Philadelphia 445 \[index\]. 1899. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 179, *pl. 36*, 3(3): 196, *pl. 68.* 1905 (portr.) - Milner, Cat. portraits Kew 51-52. 1906. - Maiden, J. Proc. R. Soc. NSW 42: 69. 1908. - Robinson, Harvard Graduates' Magaz. 75: 418-421. 1911 (on Gray's House). - Tucker, Catal. Libr. Arnold Arb. 1: 289-297. 1914 (bibl.); 2: 10. 1917 (biogr.) - Kelly, Some American medical botanists 165-177. 1914; American medical biogr. 455-456. 1920. - Huxley, Life letters Hooker 2: 537 \[index\]. 1918. - Barnhart, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 294. 1921 (Schweinitz-Torrey corr.) - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 243. 1936. - Bartlett, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 82: 664-673. 1940 (on report Wilkes exp.) - Rodgers, Noble Fellow Sullivant 348 \[index\]. 1940. - Rickett and Gilly, Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 69: 461-470. 1942. - Rodgers, John Torrey 342 \[index\]. 1942. - Rousseau, Contr. Inst. bot. Univ. Montréal 44: 39-41. 1942. - Rodgers, John Merle Coulter 314. 1944. - Rodgers, American botany 1873-1892. Princeton 1944, New York 1968. - Geiser, Naturalists of the Frontier 292 \[index\]. 1948. - Rodgers, Liberty Hyde Bailey 495 \[index\]. 1949. - Ewan, A century of progress in the natural sciences 50. 1955. - Rickett, NAF 28B(2): 332. 1945, ser. 2. 2: 158. 1955. - Dupree, Rhodora 58: 243-245. 1956. - Dupree, Asa Gray, Cambridge, Mass. 1959 (authoritative biography). - Hooykaas, Natural Law and divine miracle 235. 1959. - Humphrey, Makers of North American bot. 96-99. 1961. - Dupree, Asa Gray: Darwiniana, Cambridge, Mass. 1963. - Langman, Lit. fl. pl. Mexico 331-332. 1964. - Boone, Hist. Bot. W. Virginia 6, 7, 8, 89. 1965. - Ewan, Southw. Louisiana J. 7: 21, 30, 31. 1967. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 467 \[index\]. 1968. - Ewan, *in* Gunckel, Current toplcs in plant science 1969: 155-160. - Ewan, Short hist. bot. US 166 \[index\]. 1969. - Nelmes and Cuthbertson 94-96. 1969. - Thomas, Huntia 3: 17. 1969 (preprint). - Jackson and Spence, The expeditions of John Charles Frémont, 1: 833-834. 1970. - Lurie, Louis Agassiz 441 \[index\]. 1970. - Dupree, DSB 5: 511-514. 1972 (bibl.) - Weber, The Torrey Bot. Club centennial celebration of the Dedication of Gray's and Torrey's Peaks, Boulder, Colo., 1972, 22 p. - Smit, History of the life sciences 942-943, 1049. 1974. #### Composite works - (1) *United States Exploring Expedition* (Wilkes, q.v.) vol. 15. *Botany, Phanerogamia* part 1, 1854, atlas 1856. – *Phanerogamia* part 2, never printed, manuscript at GH. - (2) Torrey and Gray, *Aflora of North America*, 2 vols. New York 1838-1843, see under Torrey. - (3) Engelmann and Gray, *Plantae lindheimerianae* 1845-1850, see sub Engelmann and Gray. - (4) Torrey, *Monograph of North-American Cyperaceae*: species of *Rhynchospora* by A. Gray. - (5) Sullivant, *Musci alleghanienses*, 1846, descriptions partly by A. Gray, Columbus 1846, 87 p., rev. by Gray, Am. J. Sci. 51: 70-81. Jan 1846. - (6) Lindley, *The theory of horticulture*, first American ed. with notes by A. J. Downing and A. Gray, New York 1841 (xi, 346 p.), ed. 2, 1852, 1859 (xv, 364 p.) - (7) *Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan...* M. C. Perry, vol. 2, 1857, Qu., p. \[305\]-332, *pl. 30-31*, Account of the botanical specimens. "List of dried plants collected in Japan, by S. Wells Williams Esq., and James Morrow." \[mosses by Sullivant, algae by Harvey (rev. Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 9: 316-317. Oct 1857; see ME 3: 146-148)\]. - (8) Ives, J. C, *Report upon the Colorado River of the West* explored in 1857 and 1859... Washington 1861, part 4, dated 1860 but issued after 1 May 1861 (date rendered to Congress), "*Botany*, by professor Gray, Torrey, Thurber, and Dr. Engelmann, p. \[1\]-30. *Copy*: US (see ME 3: 271-273). - (9) Trelease, W. and Asa Gray, *The botanical works of the late George Engelmann*, Cambridge, Mass., 1857, *see* under Engelmann. #### Eponymy (genera) *Asagraea* Baillon (1870); *Asagraea* J. Lindley (1839); *Asagraya *Wittstein (1852, *orth. var.* of *Asagraea* Lindley); *Grayia* W.J. Hooker & Arnott (1840); (journals): *Asa Gray Bulletin* a botanical quarterly published in the interests of the Gray memorial botanical association, the botanical gardeners association of the University of Michigan botanical club. Ann Arbor, Mich. Vol. 1-8, 1893-1901; Ser. 2. Vol. 1-3, 1952-1961; *Contributions of the Gray herbarium* of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass. Vol. 1-x, 1891-X. *Note*: *Grayemma* J. E. Gray (1866) is dedicated to Maria Emma Gray née Smith (1787-1876), English phycologist, wife of John Edward Gray (1800-1875), q.v. #### Handwriting Candollea 30: 223-224. 1975. ### Publications ##### n.2118. Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York **Title** A catalogue of the indigenous flowering and filicoid plants growing within 20 miles of Bridgewater (Oneida Co.) N. Y., in 46th *Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York*. Albany 1833, p. 57-65 (*n.v.*) **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Jan 1833 (date of N.Y. State Senate Document 70, = 46th Rep.) – Asa Gray's first publication, not listed by Watson and Goodale. No new names or descriptions. *Ref*.: Rickett and Gilly, Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 96: 461. 1942. - Dupree, Asa Gray 33-34, 432. 1959. ##### n.2119. North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae **Title** *North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae*. Part 1, 1834, part 2, 1835. **Abbreviated title**: *N. Amer. Gram.* **Notes** *Publ*.: A century of exsiccatae issued as loose sets of specimens, accompanied by printed descriptions and synonymy, a title-page, dedication, introduction and index. Part 1 was issued early in 1834, part 2 Jan-Mar 1835. – Complete copies at PH and WUD. – Printed at New York by J. Post. Sets at GH(2), NY (type set), PH. *Ref*.: J. L. Gray, Letters of Asa Gray 1: 45, 50. 1893. - Gray, Letters 1: 19, 45, 46. 1893. - Rickett and Gilly, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 96: 461-470. 1942. - Dupree, Asa Gray, 38, 39, 433. 1959. - McVaugh, The Michigan Botanist 7: 5-9. 1968. ##### n.2120. Ann. Lyceum nat. Hist. New Tork **Title** A monograph of the North American species of Rhynchospora, *Ann. Lyceum nat. Hist. New Tork* 3: 191-219, 220-235. 1835 (191-220, 221-238. 1836). **Notes** *Publ*.: Copies of the first printing were distributed in Apr 1835. Soon afterwards most of the still unbound sheets were destroyed by fire. A second printing (with corrections) was distributed in Apr 1836. The reprint of the paper by Hooker in the Comp. Bot. Mag. 2: 26-38. 1836 is based on the sheets of the first printing. The first printing is not a reprint in the strict sense; it is an independent publication because distributed as loose sheets which were never incorporated in the regular journal issue because of the fire. It is necessary to quote both editions in any reference to these papers: new locations were added, descriptions amplified or modified, errors corrected. – Gray also revised the Rhynchosporae in Torrey, *Monograph of North American Cyperaceae* (Ann. Lyceum nat. Hist. New York 3: 239-443. 1836), see Gilly (1941). *Ref*.: Gray, Letters 1: 19, 31, 60. 1893. - Ames, Orchidaceae 4: 137-138. 1910. - Gilly, Rhodora 43: 333-335. 1941. - Rickett and Gilly, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 96: 461-470. 1942. - Gale, Rhodora 46: 90. 1944. ##### n.2121. Elements of botany **Title** *Elements of botany*. New York (G. & C. Carvill & Co.) 1836. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Elem. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1836 (see Graustein 1967, and Gray Letters 1: 59), p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-428, ill. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Reissued as *The botanical text-book* (q.v.). The "revised edition," 1887, of Gray's *Lessons in botany*, entitled "The elements of botany for beginners and for schools" was a different text. *Ref*.: ME 3: 420; PR 3522. - D., Magaz. Hort. Bot. Boston (American Gardener's Mag.) 2: 421-424. Nov 1836. - Gray, Letters 1: 20, 27, 32, 54. 1893. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 329. 1967. ##### n.2122. The botanical text-book **Title** *The botanical text-book* for colleges, schools, and private students: comprising part I. An introduction to structural and physiological botany. Part II. The principles of systematic botany: with an account of the chief natural families of the vegetable kingdom, and notices of the principal officinal or otherwise useful plants. Illustrated with numerous engravings on wood. New York (Wiley and Putnam), Boston (Little and Brown) 1842. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. text*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Jul 1842 (copy sent to Hooker on 30 Jul, rd. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 17 Aug, Gray letters 1: 289), p. \[v\]-xii, \[131-413. *Copy*: NY. – Rev.: Am. J. Sci. 43: 388-389. Oct 1842; Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 1: 50-51. 1843. *Ed. 2*: New York (Wiley and Putnam), Jan-Mai 1845, p. \[1\]-509. *Copy*: NY. – Rev. Am. J. Sci. 49: 189-190. Jun 1845; Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 4: 98-100. 1846. *Ed*. 5: "rewritten and enlarged. illustrated with twelve hundred engravings on wood." New York (George P. Putnam), 1850, Oct. p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-520. *Copy*: NY. *Ed. 4*: New York (George P. Putnam & Co.), 1853, Oct., (p. vi: Mar 1853), p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-528. *Copy*: US. *Ed*. 5: Introduction to structural and systematic botany, and vegetable physiology, being a fifth and revised edition of the botanical text-book. Illustrated with over thirteen hundred woodcuts. New York (Ivison and Phinney), Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.) 1858, p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-555 (Rev.: N. Amer. Rev. 87: 321-342. Oct 1858). *Copy*: HH. *Variant* of 1858 issue: New York (id.), Chicago (id.), London (Trübner & Co.) 1858. Oct., p. \[i\]-xii, \[131-555. *Copy*: HH. *Second* issue: New York (Ivison, Phinney & Co.), Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.), Philadelphia (Sower, Barnes, & Co.)... Detroit (F. Raymond & Co.) 1860, p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-555. *Copy*: HH. *Third issue*: idem 1862 (HH copy: signed 5 Mar 1862), p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-555. *Copy*: HH. *Fourth issue*: New York (Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co.), Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.) 1868, p. \[i\]-xii, \[131-555. *Copy*: HH. *Fifth issue*: New York and Chicago (Ivison, Blackman, Taylor & Co.) 1876, p. \[i\]-xii, \[131-555. *Copy*: HH. *Sixth issue*: idem 1877, p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-555. *Copy*: HH. *Ed. 6, part 1*: New York and Chicago (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company) Apr-Jun 1879 (p. iv: 10 Apr 1879), p. \[i\]-xii. \[11-442. *Copy*: NY. "Structural botany, or organography on the basis of morphology to which is added the principles of taxonomy and phytography, and a glossary of botanical terms." *Reissue*: idem 1880, identical except for t.p. \[Part 2: Physiological botany by G. L. Goodale... 1885\]. *Ref*.: Jackson p. 41; ME 3: 434-435; PR 3523. - Watson and Goodale, Amer. J. Sci. 136 (app.): 4. 1888. - Dupree, Asa Gray 125, 131, 167, 169, 170, 173, 202, 351, 393. 1959. ##### n.2123. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sc. 1846-1888. **Title** Contributions to North American botany, in *Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sc. 1846-1888.* **Notes** |proc. |pages |dates<br/>title-page |dates of issue| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |46-50 |1848 |Dec 1846 or Jan 1847| |2 |159-160 |1852 |24 Mai 1852| | |323-325 |1852 |24 Mai 1852| |3 |48-54 |1857 |1853| | |94-97 |1857 |Mai 1854| | |127-129 |1857 |Mai 1854| |4 |98-99 |1860 |(?) 1858| | |33-50 |1860 |Apr 1858| | |306-318 |– |Sep 1859| | |319-324 |– |Sep 1859| | |326-327 |1860 |Oct 1859| | |363-366 |1860 |1860| |5 |114-146 |1862 |1861| | |146-152 |1862 |1861| | |153-173 |1862 |(?) 1861| | |174-190 |1862 |(?) 1861| | |190-191 |1862 |(?) 1861| | |315-321 |1862 |Jan 1862| | |321-352 |1862 |Jan 1862| |6 |37-55 |1866 |1862| | |55-56 |1866 |1862| | |56-76 |1866 |1862| | |77-80 |1866 |1862| | |182-188 |1864 |Jan 1864| | |188-236 |1864 |Jan 1864| | |519-556 |1865 |Nov 1865| |7 |327-344 |1868 |Mar 1868| | |345-401 |1868 |Jul 1868| |8 |145-200 |1870 |Apr 1870| | |243-296 |1870 |31 Dec 1870| | |365-412 |1872 |Mai 1872| | |620-631 |1873 |18 Nov 1873| | |631-661 |1873 |18 Nov 1873| | |620-661 |1873 |18 Nov 1873| |9 |187-218 |1874 |Mai 1874| |10 |39-78 |1874 |25 Dec 1874| | |312-332 |1875 |Apr 1875| |11 |71-104 |1876 |5 Jan 1876| |12 |51-84 |1876 |27 Dec 1876| | |159-165 |1877 |Mai 1877| |13 |361-374 |1878 |5 Apr 1878| |15 |25-52 |1879 |1 Oct 1879| |16 |78-108 |1880 |1 Sep 1880| |17 |163-230 |1882 |26 Jun 1882| |19 |1-96 |1883 |30 Oct 1883| |20 |1-7 |1884 |Jun-early Jul 1884| | |8-12 |1884 |Jun-early Jul 1884| | |257-310 |1885 |26 Jan 1885| |21 |363-413 |1886 |4 Apr 1886| |22 |270-314 |1887 |4 Mar 1887| |23 |223-227 |1888 |19 Apr 1888| The titles of the papers are given in Ewan's paper in the American Midland Naturalist from which the above dates are taken. *Ref*.: SK p. clxxxiv, IDC 5937. - Greene, Pittonia 1: 42-49. 1887 (rev.) - Ewan, Am. Midl. Natur. 22: 218-222. 1939 (dates). - St. John, Rhodora 44: 90-91. 1942 (Proc. vol. 20). ##### n.2124. A manual of the botany of the Northern United States **Title** *A manual of the botany of the Northern United States*, from New England to Wisconsin and south to Ohio and Pennsylvania inclusive, (the mosses and liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant,) arranged according to the natural system; with an introduction, containing a reduction of the genera to the Linnaean artificial classes and orders, outlines of the elements of botany, a glossary, etc. Boston, Cambridge (James Munroe and Company), London (John Chapman) 1848. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Manual*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 10 Feb 1848 (Letters of Asa Gray 1: 355. 1893) the Willows, Poplars and the genus *Carex* by John Carey (p. 535-567); the Musci and Hepaticae by Wm. S. Sullivant. p. i-lxxii, \[1\]-710. *Copies*: HH, NY, FAS. – (Rev. Amer. J. Sci. 55: 377-380. Mai 1848; Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 6: 852-854. 8 Dec 1848). *Ed. 2*: ca. 1 Sep 1856 (preface 30 Jun 1856), "Second edition; including Virginia, Kentucky, and all East of the Mississippl: arranged... New York (George P. Putnam & Co.) 1856" (cf. Rickett, N. Am. Fl. ser. 2. 3: 35. 1963; Gray sent a copy to Miquel in Nov 1856; rev. Am. J. Sci. 72: 437-438. Nov. 1856). – 14 plates by Isaac Sprague. Sullivant contributed again the Musci and the Hepaticae (8 pl.), a part also issued separately (PR 9045) in Oct 1856 (cf. Sullivant). "Sullivant, on his own motion, had the eight plates of Musci engraved in copper, ac his own cost, for $ 630 (about *£* 126), and gave them to the work, after printing 250 Copies for his separate booklet I sent you. I gave the six plates of Ferns, etc., cut on stone by Sprague to complete the plan." (Letters 2: 433, to Hooker 6 Dec 1857). Sullivant's booklet was the reprint of his part in the *Manual*: The musci and hepaticae of the United States... iv, 113 p., *8 pl. *New York 1856. *Ed. 2*: *first issue* as *Manual*: New York (George P. Putnam & Co.) *1856*. Oct. (published circa 1 Sep 1856, see above), p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-739, *14 pl. Copies*: NY, U. *School and College edition*: Manual... States. Revised edition; including... System... with six plates, illustrating the genera of ferns, etc. New York (G. P. Putnam & Co. and Ivison and Phinney) *1857*. Oct., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-631, \[3, expl. pl.\], *6 pl. Copy*: NY. *School and College edition*:... \[title as 1857 issue\]. New York (Ivison & Phinney), Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Newburg *1858*. Oct. p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-606, \[25, index\], \[3, expl. pl.\], *pl. 9-14. Copy*: NY. *School and College edition*:.... \[title as 1857 issue\]. New York... Newburg *1859*. Oct., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-606, \[26, index\], \[3, expl. *pl*.\], *pl. 1-14* \[sic\]. *Copy*: US. *Ed. 2*: *second issue as Manual*: New York... Newburg *1859*. Oct. "Manual... States. Revised edition;... (The mosses and liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant.) with fourteen plates, illustrating the genera of the cryptogamia." (preface p. xii: 30 Jun 1856, showing this is a reissue of the *second* edition and not the third edition), p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-739, *14. pl. Copies*: HH, NY. *School and College edition*:... \[title as 1857 issue\], New York (Ivison, Phinney & Co.), Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Savannah, St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit *1862*. Oct., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-606, \[25, index\], \[3, expl. pl.\], *pl. 1-14* \[sic\]. *Copy*: HH. *Ed. 3*: 1862, only issue, as *School and College edition*. "Manual... United States, including Virginia, Kentucky, and all east of the Mississippl; arranged according to the natural system. *Third revised edition with Garden Botany, etc*.... with six plates. Illustrating the genera of ferns, etc." New York (Ivison, Phinney & Co.), Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.). (p. iii: 10 Mar 1862, indicating that this is the *third* edition), p. \[i\]-\[xxviii\], xxviiia-d, \[xxix\]-xcviii, \[1\]-606, \[25, index\], \[3, expl. pl.\], *pl. 1-14* \[sic\]. *Copies*: HH, NY. *Ed. 4*: 1863, issue as *Manual*: "Manual... as ed. 3... Mississippl by Asa Gray,... (The mosses and liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant.) *Fourth revised edition*. To which is added garden botany, an introduction to a knowledge of the common cultivated plants. With twenty-two plates, illustrating the genera of the grasses, ferns, mosses, etc." New York (Ivison, Phinney & Co.), Chicago (S. C Griggs & Co.) *1863*. Duod. (p. ii: 10 Mar 1863), p. \[i\]-ci, \[1\]-743,*pl. 1-14*, gen. musc. *pl. 1-8. Copy*: NY. *School and College edition*. Manual... Mississippl; arranged according to the natural system. *Fourth revised edition* with garden botany, etc.... with fourteen plates, illustrating the grasses, ferns, etc." New York (Ivison,-, Phinney, Blakeman & Co.), Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.) *1864*. Duod., p. \[i\]-ci, \[1\]-734, \[3, expl. pl\], *pl. 1-14. Copies*: MO, NY. *School and College edition*, idem, New York, Chicago *1865. Copy*: HH. *Reissue as Manual*: \[t.p. as 1863 issue\], New York, Chicago *1865*. Oct. p. \[i\]-ci, \[1\]-743, *pl. 1-22. Copy*: HH. *School and College edition*, \[title as 1864 issue\], New York, Chicago *1867*. Oct. p. \[i\]-xxviii, xxviiia-d, \[xxix\]-ci, \[1\]-606, \[25, ind.\], \[5, expl. pl.\], *pl. 1-14. Copy*: HH. *School and College edition*, \[title as 1864 issue\], New York, Chicago *1869*. Oct. p. \[i\]-ci, \[1\]-606, \[25, ind.\], \[7, expl. pl\], *pl. 1-14. Copy*: HH. *Ed. 5*: Jun-Dec 1867 (p. iii: 30 Mai 1867), "Manual... United States, including the district east of the Mississippl and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, arranged according to the natural system... *Fifth edition*. With twenty plates, illustrating the sedges, grasses, ferns, etc. New York (lvison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co.), Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.) *1867*. Oct. p. \[1\]-701. *pl. 1-20. Copy*: NY. The genera Cuscuta, Sagittaria, Callitriche, Euphorbia, Pinus, Juncus and Isoetes by G. Engelmann; Potamogeton by J. W. Robbins, Lemnaceae by C. F. Austin, Ferns by D. C. Eaton (mosses and hepatics excluded). – Gray to Bentham, 12 Jun 1866: "Much against my will, I have this summer to work upon a new edition of my "Manual...," to which there is much to be done. I shall not, however, so recast the work as I should..." *Second issue* 1868 (p. iv: 30 Jan 1868, note stating that additional species appear on p. 679-682), title as 1867 but "Fifth edition second issue," New York (id.), Chicago (id.) *1868*, p. \[1\]-703,*pl. 1-20. Copies*: HH, NY. *Third issue*: 1868, title as second issue, but "third issue," New York (id.), Chicago (id.) *1868*, p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: NY. *Fourth issue*: 1869, title as second issue but "fourth issue." New York (id.), Chicago (id.) *1869*, p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: HH. *Fourth issue* \[2\]: 1870, title as in 1869 except "1870," p. \[1\]-703,*pl. 1-20. Copies*: G, HH. *Fifth issue*: not seen. *Sixth issue*: not seen. *Seventh issue*: not seen. *Eighth issue* \[*1*\]: 1874, title as in second issue, but "eighth issue," New York and Chicago (lvison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co.) *1874*. Oct. p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: HH. – Copy at GH inscribed 25 Dec 1874. *Eighth issue* \[*2*\]: 1876, title as 1874, but "1876," p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: US. *Eighth issue* \[*3*\]: 1877, title as 1874, but "1877," p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: HH. *Eighth issue* \[*4*\]: 1878, title as 1874, but "1878," p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copies*: HH, NY. *Eighth issue* \[*5*\]: 1879, title as 1874, but "1879," p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: HH. *Eighth issue* \[*6*\]: 1880, title as 1874, but 1880, p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: HH. *Eighth issue* \[*7*\]: 1880, undated, title as 1874, but no year date, p. \[1\]-703, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: HH. *Ed. 6*: Jan-Mar 1890 (pref. 26 Dec 1889, Nat. Nov. Apr 1890), "Manual... Tennessee ... Sixth edition. Revised and extended westward to the 100th Meridian, by Sereno Watson... and John M. Coulter... assisted by specialists in certain groups. With twenty-five plates, illustrating the sedges, grasses, ferns, etc." New York and Chicago (Iv1-20n, Blakeman, and Company) 1890. Oct. p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-760, *pl. 1-25* with expl. text. *Copies*: HH, NY, U, US. Salix by M. S. Bebb, Carex by L. H. Bailey, ferns and fern-allies by D. C. Eaton, hepatics by L. M. Underwood, mosses omitted (Nat. Nov. Apr 1890). Preface 26 Dec 1889. Extensive and critical reviews: Porter, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 17: 67-73. 10 Mar 1890; Greene, Pittonia 2: 96-99. 15 Mai 1890. *Co-authors*: John Merle Coulter (1851-1928); Sereno Watson (1826-1892); Liberty-Hyde Bailey (1858-1954); Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895); Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853-1907). *Second issue*: 1891, soon after 1 Jan (see letter American Book Company to Gray in HH copy, dated 17 Mar 1891; \[p. vi\]: second issue). Title as 1890 issue, but imprint New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, (American Book Company) *s.d.*, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-735, 735a-d, \[736\]-760, *pl. 1-25* with expl. text. *Copies*: HH, NY. *Ed. 7*: 18 Sep 1908; "Gray's New Manual of botany (seventh edition – illustrated) A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Rearranged and extensively revised by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson... and Merritt Lyndon Fernald." New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (American Book Company), p. \[1\]-926. *Copies*: HH, NY, U. 1036 text-figures, chiefly by F. Schuyler Mathews. – Hepatics and mosses excluded. *Co-authors*: Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864-1935); Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873-1950). *Ed. 8*: 29 Jun 1950, "Gray's Manual of botany eighth (centennial) edition – illustrated. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada largely rewritten and expanded by Merritt Lyndon Fernald... with assistance of specialists in some groups." New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco (American Book Company) *s.d., *p. \[i\]-lxiv, \[1\]-1632, ill. *Copies*: HH, NY, U. *Ref*.: BM 2: 709; ME 3: 450-451; PR 3525; Bradley Bibliogr. 1: 314. 1911; IF p. 699; Jackson p. 361. - Gray, Letters 1: 33, 334, 346, 353, 355, 2: 414, 433, 547. 1893. - Day, Check list of the plants contained in Gray's Manual seventh edition. Cambridge Mass. 1908. - Wiegand, Rhodora 10: 193-196. Sep 1908 (ed. 7). - Fernald, Preface to the eighth edition, v-xi. 1950. - Shinners, L. H., Sida 1(1): 1-31. 1962 (evolution of the range of the Manual). - Brizicky, Taxon 18: 654. 1969 (use of infrageneric categories). ##### n.2125. Genera florae Americae boreali-orientalis illustrata **Title** *Genera florae Americae boreali-orientalis illustrata*. The genera of the plants of the United States illustrated by figures and analyses from nature, by Isaac Sprague..., superintended, and with descriptions, etc., by Asa Gray, M.D.... Boston \[vol. 1:\] (James Munroe and Company), New York and London (John Wiley), \[vol. 2:\] New York, London (George P. Putnam) 1848-1849, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. Arner. bor.* **Notes** *Vol. 1*: 1848, Apr sero vel Mai prim. (Asa Gray sends copy to Hooker on 2 May 1848), p. \[1\]-230, *pl. 1-100. Copies*: G, HH, HU, NY, U, US. *Vol. a*: 1849, Jun-Oct (not yet finished on 26 Mai, cf. Gray Letters 1: 363, dedication 1 Jun 1849), p. \[3\]-230\]. *pl. 101-186. Copies*: idem. *Reissue vol. 1*: New York (George P. Putnam), London (id.) 1849 (reissue of vol. 1 with new t.p.). *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BL 1: 160-161; BM 2: 710; GF p. 58; Jackson p. 355; ME 3: 452; NI 749; PR 3526; IDC 5130. - Anon., N. Amer. Rev. 67: 174-193. Jul 1848 (fasc. 1). - Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 7: 456-458. 22 Jun 1849 (fasc. 1). - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 8: 452-453. Nov 1849 (fasc. 2). - Gray, Letters 1: 357, 363. 1893. ##### n.2126. Plantae fendlerianae novi-mexicanae **Title** *Plantae fendlerianae novi-mexicanae*: an account of a collection of plants made chiefly in the vicinity of Santa Fé, New Mexico, by Augustus Fendler; with descriptions of the new species, critical remarks, and characters of other undescribed or little known plants from surrounding regions. \[Philadelphia, 1849\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. fendler.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Feb 1849, *in* Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ser. 2. vol. 1, art. 1, p. \[1\]-116. *Copies*: MO, NY, US. *Ref*.: CSP 2: 586; Jackson p. 376; ME 2: 46; PR 2861. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 1: 125-127. Apr 1849. - Rickett, NAF ser. 2(2): 158. 1955. ##### n.2127. Plantae wrightianae texano-neo-mexicanae **Title** *Plantae wrightianae texano-neo-mexicanae*: an account of a collection of plants made by Charles Wright, A.M., in an expedition from Texas to New Mexico, in the summer and autumn of 1849, with critical notices and characters of other new or interesting plants from adjacent regions, &c. Washington (Smithsonian Institution), New York (George P. Putnam) 1852, 1853. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. wright.* **Notes** *Part 1*: p. \[1\]-146,*pl. 1-10.* 1 Mar 1852 (Smiths. Contr. Knowl. 3, Art. 5). *Copies*: MO, U, US. *Part2*: p. \[1\]-1 19,*pl. 11-14.* 1 Feb 1853 (Smiths. Contr. Knowl. 5, Art. 6) \[subtitle:... Wright, A. M., in western Texas, New Mexico, and Sonora, in the years 1851 and 1852\]. *Copies*: U, US. Gray to W. J. Hooker (4 Jan 1853): "My new memoir, "Plantae wrightianae," is now almost all printed, and contains many novelties. I never had a collection so rich in entirely new things." "A second part... is now published," A. Gray to Miquel, 31 Mar 1853. (letter at U). Regensburg rd. the parts in Sep 1852 and Oct 1853. – The plates are uncoloured lithographs of drawings by Isaac Sprague. The US copy has the t.p.'s from the serial: "... Part I. Accepted for publication by the Smithsonian Institution, March 1850" and "... Part II. \[Accepted for publication, October, 1852.\]" with no further imprint. *Ref*.: BM 2: 710; ME 3: 29, 32; PR 3527. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 4: 287-288. Sep 1852. - Gray, Letters 2: 389, 391, 392, 393, 406. 1893. ##### n.2128. Plantae novae thurberianae **Title** *Plantae novae thurberianae*: the characters of some new genera and species of plants in a collection made by George Thurber, Esq., of the late Mexican boundary commission, chiefly in New Mexico and Sonora. Cambridge (Metcalf and Co.) 1854. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl nov. thurb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1854, preprint or reprint (p. \[i\], \[297\]-328) with separate title page from Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. ser. 2. 5: \[297\]-328. 1854. *Copies*: U, US. *Ref*.: Jackson p. 355. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 7: 159-160. Mai 1855. - Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 14: 74-79, 98-103. 1856. ##### n.2129. United States Exploring Expedition **Title** *United States Exploring Expedition*. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. vol. XV. *Botany. Phanerogamia* by Asa Gray with a folio atlas of one hundred plates. Part. I. Philadelphia 1854. **Abbreviated title**: *U.S. Expl. Exped., Phan.* **Notes** *Official issue* of the text, Haskell no. 60, published June 1854; 100 Copies were printed of which 21 were destroyed by fire and not replaced. Copies mostly in U.S. state libraries, GH, Cornell. For the atlas (100 pl.) see below. *Unofficial issue*: Haskell no. 61, New York (George P. Putnam & Co.) 1854, probably June 1854 or somewhat later (150 Copies printed); the fascimile is of this issue, p. \[i\], \[1\]-777. Gray wrote to de Candolle on 1 Jun 1854 "this... volume... is at length happily printed off, and just in time, too, for sending you a copy (unbound, direct from the printing office at Philadelphia) in the annual envoi of the Smithsonian Institution" (Letters 2: 409. 1893) and "The atlas is by no means ready..." The second part of Gray's contribution, which was to have formed vol. XVIII with an accompanying Atlas, was never printed. The unpublished mss. is at GH. *Facsimile ed*. (of unofficial issue): Lehre (J. Cramer) 1971. Historiae naturalis classica vol. 87(1), p. \[i\*-iv\*, new t.p.'s\], \[i\], \[1\]-777. *Copy*: FAS. ##### n.2130. United States Exploring Expedition... Atlas. Botany. Phanerogamia. **Title** *United States Exploring Expedition... Atlas. Botany. Phanerogamia.* vol. I. Philadelphia 1856. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *U.S. Expl. Exp., Atlas phan.* **Notes** *Official issue*: Haskell no. 62. 1856. 100 Copies printed; mostly in US state libraries. *Unofficial issue*: Haskell no. 63. New York (George P. Putnam & Co.) 1857. 150 Copies printed, e.g. in BM, K, GH. The 1971 *facsimile* is of this issue. The 100 plates are all by Isaac Sprague. The additional atlases (there were to be 300 plates) were never issued. *Facsimile ed*.: (of unofficial issue): Lehre (J. Cramer) 1971, *pl. 1-100. Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: ME 2: 668-669 (q.v. for preliminary publ. by Gray); PR 3529; IDC 5939. - Gray, Letters 2: 822 \[index\]. 1893. - Haskell, Bull. New York Public Library 44: 93-112. 1940,45: 69-89,509-532, 823-858. 1941, 46: 103-150. 1942. - Stafleu, Taxon 21: 170-171. 1972. ##### n.2131. First lessons in botany **Title** *First lessons in botany* and vegetable physiology, illustrated by over 360 wood engravings, from original drawings, by Isaac Sprague. To which is added a copious glossary or dictionary of botanical terms. New York (G. P. Putnam & Co.), London (Trübner & Co.) 1857. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *First lessons*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Jan-Apr 1857, p. \[i\]-xii \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH. – The text illustrations are woodcuts by Isaac Sprague (all eds. and issues). *Reissue* (*1*), idem, New York (Ivison, Phinney, & Co.), Chicago.... Newburg 1859. *Copy*: NY. *Reissue* (*2*), 30 Jun 1860 (Gray's copy at HH), New York \[id.\], Chicago... Detroit 1860, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH. *Reissue* (*3* ), 1862, New York \[id.\], Chicago... Detroit 1862, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH (bound with *Manual*, School and College ed., ed. 2, 1862). *Reissue* (*4*), 1864, New York \[id.\], Chicago (S. C. Griggs & Co.) 1861. idem. *Copy*: NY. *Reissue* (*5*), 1865, New York \[id.\], Chicago \[id.\] 1865, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH (bound with *Manual* ed. 4, 1865 issue). *Reissue* (*6* ), 1866, New York \[id.\], Chicago \[id.\] 1866, idem. *Copy*: NY. *Reissue* (*7*), 1867, New York, Chicago 1867, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH (bound with *Manual* ed. 4, 1867 issue). *Reissue* (*8*), Aug 1868 (see p. iv), New York, Chicago (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor Co.) s.d., p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH. – Title: "Gray's Lessons in botany..." *Reissue* (*9*) 10 Apr 1869, New York, Chicago \[id.\] 1869, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-236. *Copy*: HH (bound with *Manual* ed. 4, 1869 issue). *Reissue* (*10*), 1873, New York, Chicago \[id.\] 1873, idem, with *Manual* ed. 5, 1873 issue. *Copy*: HH. *Reissue* (*11*), 1877, New York, Chicago \[id,\] 1877, idem, with *Manual* ed. 5, issue 8(3). 1877. *Copy*: HH. *Reissue* (*12*), 1879, New York, Chicago \[id.\] 1879, idem, with *Manual* ed. 5, issue 8(5). 1879. *Copy*: HH. *Reissue* (*13*), 1880, New York, Chicago \[id.\] 1880, idem, with *Manual* ed. 5, issue 8(6). 1880. *Copy*: HH. *Revised edition*. The elements of botany for beginners and for schools, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (American Book Company) s.d. \[1887, pref.\], p. \[i-viii\], \[9\]-226, *facsimile* reprint 1970. *Reissue* (*1* ), idem, s.d. but \[1890\] fide copy HH. *Ref*.: NI 750; PR 3530. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 9: 154-160. Mai 1857. ##### n.2132. Synoptical flora of North America **Title** *Synoptical flora of North America*. New York (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company), London (Wm. Wesley and Trübner & Co.), Leipzig (Oswald Weigel) 1878-1897, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. fl. N. Amer.* **Notes** *Vol. 1, part 1*, preface material p. \[i-ii\], t.p.: Synoptical flora of North America: vol. i. – part i. Fascicles i and ii. Polypetalae from the Ranunculaceae to the Polygalaceae (Thalamiflorae et Disciflorae). By Asa Gray... and others. Edited by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson... 1895-1897, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (American Book Company), Cambridge Mass., London, Leipzig. – On p. \[ii\]: list of dates and contents fasc. 1 and 2. *Fasc*. 1: 10 Oct 1895, orig. cover (US copy), p. \[iii\]-ix, 1-208,\[\] \[1, index\]. Cover title: "... Fascicle i. Polypetalae from the Ranunculaceae to the Frankeniaceae. By Asa Gray... and Sereno Watson... continued and edited by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson..." *Fasc*. 2: 10 Jun 1897, orig. cover (US copy), p. ix-xv, 207-506 \[when binding pages ix, 207, 208 and the index leaf of fasc. 1 were to be "removed and discarded"\]. Cover title: "... Fascicle ii. Polypetalae from the Caryophyllaceae to the Polygalaceae. By Asa Gray... continued and edited by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson... with the collaboration of William Trelease... John. Merle Coulter... and Liberty Hyde Bailey." *Fasc. 3*: *Leguminosae*, never published, announced on publisher's pamphlet accompanying fasc. 2. The text was "in preparation by Dr. B. L. Robinson." *Copies*: Most copies are bound in accordance with the directions: \[i\]-xv, 1-506 (NY, U). *Vol. 1, part*2: Jul 1884, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-474. *Copies*: NY, U. Title: "Synoptical... America. By Asa Gray.... vol. i. – part ii. Caprifoliaceae – Compositae." Published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. New York, London, Leipzig, July 1884. Oct. – The NY copy is inscribed "21 Aug 1884, Dr. J. H. Oyster, Paola, Kansas." *Vol. 2, part 1*: Mai 1878, p. \[i\]-vi, \[vii, cont.\], \[1\]-402. *Copies*: NY, U. Title: as vol. 1, part 2 "... vol. ii. – part i. Gamopetalae after Compositae." New York, London, Leipzig, Mai 1878. Oct. *Ed. 2 of 1* (*2*) *and 2*(*1*): Jan 1886, "Synoptical flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, being a second edition of vol. i. part ii., and vol. ii. part i., collected." New York, London, Leipzig. Jan 1886. Oct. (rev. Bull. Torrey bot. Club 13: 45-47. Mar 1886). *Vol. 1*(*2*): Jan 1886, with the above t.p., p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-480. *Copies*: MO, NY, U. *Vol. 2*(*1*): Jan 1886, separate t.p., p. \[i\]-vi, \[1, cont.\], \[1\]-494. *Copies*: MO, NY, U. *Supplements and indexes*: Jan 1886, separately issued, reprinted from above: \[i-ii\], \[445\]-480, \[1\], 389-494. Same imprint. *Copy*: US. *Ed. 2, other issue*: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 591. Synoptical... Washington 1888, publ. Apr. 1888, p. \[i\]-ix, \[1\]-480 and \[i\]-vi, \[1\], \[1\]-494. *Check-list* of North American Gamopetalae from Gray's Synoptical Flora. Oquawka, Ill. s.d., anonymous. *Ref*.: BL 1: 158; Jackson p. 358. - Rendle, J. Bot. 35: 495-496. 1897. - Rickett, NAF ser. 2. 2: 158. 1955. - Brizicky, Taxon 19: 654-655. 1969 (use of infrageneric categories). ##### n.2133. Plates prepared between the years 1849 and 1859, to accompany a report on the forest trees of North America **Title** *Plates prepared between the years 1849 and 1859, to accompany a report on the forest trees of North America* by Asa Gray. Washington (Smithsonian Institution) 1891. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. forest trees N. Amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1891 (p. 4: Mai 1891), p. \[1\]-4, *pl. 1-63*, by Isaac Sprague, coloured liths. *Copy*: US. *Ref*.: NI 751.