> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 146](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068388) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3806-1) LSID 3806-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2373009) QID Q2373009 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Heller, Amos Arthur (1867-1944), American plant collector; field agent for USDA 1872-1896; at the University of Minnesota 1896-1898, from 1908-1913 at the University of Nevada; from 1913-1938 teacher at Chico high school, Chico, California; founder and publisher of Muhlenbergia. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Heller* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Heller*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BKL|BKL]] (acquired 1913), [[Collection WTU|WTU]] (later herb.). Duplicates in many herbaria, see IH. Many collections with others, especially with his wife Emily Gertrude Holbach Heller (1869-1939; see Barnhart 2: 153). Early collections at [[Collection F|F]]; Hawaiian collections (1896) at [[Collection MIN|MIN]]. *Exsiccatae*: I. *Plants of the Hawaiian Islands*, coll. 1895, numbered irregularly. See IH for sets. 2. *Plants of Porto Rico, Fungi of Porto Rico*, see Stevenson (1971). 3. *Plants of California*, (coll. 1902), *California fungi* (coll. 1903). 4. *North American plants* collected chiefly in Southern Virginia in 1893. Richmond 1894 (316 sp.). *Ref*.: Gager, Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 2: 127. 1913. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 335. 1975. - Stevenson, J., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 180-184. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 153; BL 1: 110, 158, 174, 205, 211, 216, 300; BM 2: 818; Bossert p. 170; CSP 15: 740-741, 18: 791; GR p. 222; Hortus 3: 1195 ("A. Heller"); IF p. 702; IH 2: 267; Kew 2: 638; Langman p. 356-357; Lenley p. 217; LS 11774; NAF 28B(2): 334, ser. 2.2: 16, 5: 241-242; NW p. 48; Pennell p. 609; Rehder 5: 380; Tucker 1: 332; Urban-Berl. p. 267, 355; Zander ed. 10, p. 669. - Anon., Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 26: 23. 1899 (trip to Porto Rico); J. New York Bot. Gard. 45: 185-186. 1944. - Blankinship, J. W., Montana Agric. Coll. Sci. Studies Bot. 1: 13. 1904. - Boone, W., Hist. bot. W. Virg. 172. 1965. - Cantelow, Leaflets west. Bot. 8: 92. 1957. - Ewan, J., Rocky Mount. Naturalists 226. 1950. - Harshberger, J. W., Bot. Philadelphia 382-388. 1899. - Heller, A. A., Observations on the ferns and flowering plants of the Hawaiian Islands, Minnesota botanical Studies no. 1, p. 760-922. 1897 (additional to Hillebrand, Fl. Haw. Isl., TL-2/2778). - Holmgren, P. K., Personal communication to authors. - MacCaughey, Hawaiian Forester Agric. 16: 51. 1919. - Pennell, F. W., Bartonia 22: 22. 1943. - Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 474 \[index\]. 1963. - Piper, C. V., Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 11: 19. 1906. - Reifschneider, O., Biogr. Nevada bot. 1844-1963: 82-83. 1964 (portr.). - Reveal, J., *in* A. Cronquist et al., Intermountain flora 1: 61-62. 1972 (coll., portr.). - Rickett, H. W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 46. 1955. - Thomas, J. H., Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 156. 1961; Flora of Santa Cruz Mountains 1961; Huntia 3: 21-22. 1969 (portr.). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3: 58-59. 1902 (itin., coll. W. Indies). #### Composite works Edited: *Muhlenbergia*, A journal of botany, vols. 1-9, 1900-1915 (see e.g. Hudspath, Mentzelia 2: 16-17. 1977). #### Eponymy *Helleranthus* J. K. Small (1903). ### Publications ##### n.2615. Preliminary enumeration of the lichens of Lancaster County **Title** *Preliminary enumeration of the lichens of Lancaster County*, Pennsylvania. By A. Arthur Heller. Lancaster, Pa. February 15, 1893. **Abbreviated title**: *Prelim. enum. lich. Lancaster*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Feb 1893, p. \[l-4\]. *Copies*: G, US. ##### n.2616. Botanical explorations in Southern Texas **Title** *Botanical explorations in Southern Texas* during the season of 1894... \[Lancaster Pa.\] (The new era printing house) 1895. Oct. (size). **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. explor. S. Texas*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 6 Feb 1895, p. \[1\]-116, *pl. 1-9* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: G, MICH, MO, NY, US, USDA. – \[headline t.p.:\] Contributions from the Herbarium of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. no. I. Contains author's itinerary. ##### n.2617. Catalogue of North American plants north of Mexico **Title** *Catalogue of North American plants north of Mexico*, exclusive of the lower cryptogams. By A. A. Heller. Issued March 10, 1898. Price 60 cents. s.l. \[Lancaster Pa.\], Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. N. Amer. pl.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 10 Mar 1898 (p. 8: Mar 1898; Nat. Nov. Aug(2) 1898, Fern Bull. Apr 1898), p. \[1\]-160. *Copies*: G, MICH, MO, NY, US. – 14.534 taxa enumerated. *Ed. 2*: 10 Nov 1900, p. \[1\]-252, (9-236 one-sided). *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY, US, USDA. – 16.673 taxa enumerated. *Ed. 3*: 1909-1914, p. 1-276. *Copy*: USDA (p. 13-276 only). – Remained incompleted; enumerates 15.319 taxa. Published 1912-1914? (See BL).