> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 6](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266313) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1066-1) LSID 1066-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5423328) QID Q5423328 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Brainerd, Ezra (1844-1924), American clergyman and botanist, trained for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, cand. minister 1868, professor at Middlebury College, Vermont 1868, idem professor in rhetoric, English literature, mathematics and physics 1880, president of Middlebury College 1885-1908, student of the flora of Vermont, especially interested in Viola. **Abbreviated name**: *Brainerd* \[standard form in IPNI: *Brainerd*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MID|MID]] (herbarium); further material at [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]] (Viola), [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 239 (further refs.); BL 1: 217; Ewan ed. 1: 80, 130, 245; Hortus 3: 1189; IH 2: 92; Kew 1: 338; NI 221nc; NW p. 41; Rehder 1: 317, 2: 300; TL-2/see indexes; Tucker 1: 105. #### Biofile - Anon., Hedwigia 66(2) (Beibl.): (118). 1926 (d.). - Barnhart, J.H., Amer. Fern J. 15(4): 127-128. 1926 (obit.). - Brainerd Baird, V., Madroño 1(12): 185-186. 1928 (coll. trips in California 1897 and 1915). - Day, M.A., Rhodora 3: 206-207. 1901. - Eggleston, W.W., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 55: 91-104. 1928 (biogr., portr.). - Howe, M.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 26(301): 12-13. 1925 (obit., d. 8 Dec 1924, Middlebury, Vermont). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 61. 1981 (letter to S.M. Tracy at HU). - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 293, 294, 296. 1970. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 192. 1905 (b. St. Albans, Vermont, 17 Dec 1844). ### Publications ##### n.22.504. Flora of Vermont **Title** *Flora of Vermont*; a list of the ferns and seed plants growing without cultivation... Burlington (Vermont State Board Agric. Report) 1900. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Vermont*. **Notes** *Co-authors*: Lewis Ralph Jones (1864-1915), Willard Webster Eggleston (1863-1935). *Publ*.: 15 Dec 1900 (in text), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-113. *Copies*: HH, MO. – Issued as Vermont State Board Agric. Rep. 20(4). 1900, also as Contributions to the botany of Vermont VIII. *Ref*.: Howe, M.A., Torreya 1: 10-12. 29 Jan 1901 (rev.). ##### n.22.505. Five new species of Viola **Title** *Five new species of Viola* from the South... from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club... 1910. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Nov 1910 (in journal), p. 523-528, *pl. 34-35* (uncol. draw.). *Copy*: BKL. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey bot. Club 37(11): 523-528, *pl. 34-35.* 1910. ##### n.22.506. Blackberries of New England **Title** *Blackberries of New England*, their classification... Burlington (Free Press Printing Company) 1920. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Blackberries N. Engl.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Arne Kristopher Peitersen (1884-1924). *Publ*.: Jun 1920 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-84, *pl. 1-4* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: BKL, L. – Issued as Bull. Vermont Agric. Exper. State 217, 1920. ##### n.22.507. Violets of North America **Title** *Violets of North America*... Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station... 1921. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Violets N. Amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1921 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., col. frontisp. (= *pl. 1*), p. \[1\]-171, 172 \[adv.\], *24* unnumbered coloured *pl. Copy*: L. *Note*: *Wild violets of North America* was published in 1942 by Viola \[sic\] Brainerd Baird, "in loving memory" of her father Ezra Brainerd. Several of the beautiful illustrations of the *Violets of North America* were used in this issue supplemented with many more by the same artist (F. Schuyler Mathews). ##### n.22.508. Some natural violet hybrids of North America **Title** *Some natural violet hybrids of North America*... Burlington (Free Press Printing Company) 1924. 16-mo. **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. violet hybr. N. Amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1924 (p. 1 so dated), p. \[1\]-205. *Copies*: L, U. – Issued as Bull. Vermont Agric. Exper. Stat. 239, 1924. – Preceeded by *Violets of North America*, p. \[1\]-172, id. 224, 1921.