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### Author
Stokes, Alfred Cheatham (*fl*. 1893), American physician and algologist at Trenton, N.J.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Stokes* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Stokes*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 333; BM 5: 2027; CSP 12: 706, 18: 976 (bibl.); De Toni 1: cxx, 4: liv; Lenley p. 389; LS 25977; Nordstedt p. 30.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 279-280. 1969.
- Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. univ. 482. 1984.
#### Composite works
Editor, *The microscope*, vols. 9(9)-12(3). 1889-1892.
#### Eponymy
*Stokesiella* Lemmermann (1908).
#### Note
Published also *A key to the genera of the Compositae* as delimited in Gray's Synoptical flora of North America, *in*: J. Trenton nat. Hist. Soc. 2(1): 9-41. *A key to the species of Solidago* ib. p. 41-52; *A key to the species of Aster* ib. p. 52-74. Jan 1889; and *Key to the Desmidieae*, Amer. Mon. microsc. J. 7(6): 109-114, 7(7): 125-131, 7(8): 144-148, 7(9): 163-169. 1886.
### Publications
##### n.13.171. Analytical keys to the genera and species of the fresh water algae
**Title**
*Analytical keys to the genera and species of the fresh water algae* and the Desmidieae of the United States, founded on the classification of the Rev. Francis Wolle's monographs, ... Portland, Conn. (Edward F. Bigelow, publisher) 1893. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Anal. keys fresh water alg.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1893 (TBC 15 Jul 1893; Bot. Gaz. Aug 1893 (rev.)), frontisp., p. \[3\]-117. *Copies*: FH, NY, PH, US. – Francis Wolle (1817-1893).