> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 491](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066831) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11945-1) LSID 11945-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21404524) QID Q21404524 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Young, Aaron (1819-1898), American botanist; studied at Bowdoin College 1841-1842; at Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia 1842-1843; assistant in chemistry Bowdoin College 1840-1841; apothecary in Bangor, Maine, ear surgeon and peddled cure-all in Maine, newspaper editor id.; American consul at Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 1863-1873; practicing physician in Boston from 1875. **Abbreviated name**: *Aa. young* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Young*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GH|GH]]. – *Letters* to Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 533 (b. 19 Dec 1829, d. 13 Jan 1898); DAB 20: 617-618; Lenley p. 473; ME 3: 453, 753. #### Biofile - Anon., Who was who America, Hist. vol. 601. 1963. - Elliot, C.A., Biogr. dict. Arner. sci. 288. 1979. - Spalding, J.A., *in* H.A. Kelly & W.L. Burrage, Arner. med. biogr. 1279-1281. 1920. #### Eponymy *Youngia* Cassini (1831) [^1] (and the derived genus × *Ixyoungia* Kitamura (1942)) was named for two Englishmen, a poet and a physician, according to Cassini. Neither can be identified with certainty although the physician may have been Dr. Thomas Young (1773-1829). ### Publications ##### n.18.446. A flora of Maine **Title** *A flora of Maine*: illustrated with specimens from nature. Arranged according to the natural system, and containing descriptions of all the known indigenous plants growing in the state; giving their generic and specific characters, principal synonymous \[sic\], places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks... Bangor (Samuel S. Smith, printer) 1848. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Maine*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1848, p. \[i-vi\], 62 sheets with dried specimens and names holographic, with descriptive text. *Copies*: HH (62 specimens), NY (28 specim.). *Ref*.: Bean, R.C., Rhodora 55: 293-296. 1953. [^1]: "*Youngia* Cass. 1831 (Asteraceae) Very likely \[is dedicated to\] Edward Young (1683–1765), prolific English poet, author **and** Thomas Young (1773–1829), English ophthalmologist, physicist, linguist, Egyptologist (Cassini, 1831: 88); and the derived genus as well: ×*Ixyoungia* Kitam. 1942 (Asteraceae)" Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)