> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 279](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212321) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/27690-1) LSID 27690-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5764889) QID Q5764889 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thompson, Charles Henry (1870-1931), American botanist; M.S. Univ. Kansas 1898; instructor in botany, Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis 1893-1895; bot. asst. Missouri Botanical Garden 1895-1896; instructor at the University of Missouri 1896-1897; in charge of the department of succulent plants Missouri Botanical Garden from 1904; from 1915 assistant botanist, assistant professor of horticulture and professor of horticulture at Massachusetts College. **Abbreviated name**: *C.H. Thomps.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.H.Thomps.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection KANU|KANU]] (orig. Lemnaceae coll.); other material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BH|BH]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection US|US]] (186, orig. Kansas). – *Field notes* at [[Collection US|US]]. – *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]. Other mss. material at SIA. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 376 (b. 23 Jun 1870, d. 23 Jan 1931); BM 5: 2096; CSP 19: 94; Hortus 3: 1205; Langman p. 735; LS suppl. 10048; Rehder 2: 589; Stevenson p. 1260; Tucker 1: 686, 3: 307; Urban-Berl. p. 403. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 1-3, 1906-1921; Bot. Centralbl. 67: 384. 1896 (app. Univ. Missouri); Expl. Sta. Record 64: 499. 1931 (d.); Österr. bot. Z. 46: 411. 1896 (app. Univ. Missouri). - Hauser, L.A., The Lemnaceae collection of C.H. Thompson in the University of Kansas herbarium, Rep. State Biol. Surv. Kansas. Lawrence Kansas no. 10, 1977, 12 p. - J.R., New York Sun 5 Feb 1931 (obit.). #### Eponymy *Thompsonella* N.L. Britton et J.N. Rose (1909). ### Publications ##### n.14.243. Ligulate Wolffias of the United States **Title** *Ligulate Wolffias of the United States*... Reprinted from the Seventh Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden \[St. Louis\] 1896. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 26 Mai 1896, cover-t.p., p. 101-111, *pl. 64-66* (uncol.). *Copies*: B, BR, HH, NY, US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 7: 101-111, *pl. 64-66.* 1896. ##### n.14.244. North American Lemnaceae **Title** *North American Lemnaceae*... (printed in advance from the ninth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden \[St. Louis\]) 1897. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Nov 1897, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-22, *pl. 1-4. Copies*: B, BR, G, H, HH, M, NY, US. – Preprinted from Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 9: 21-42, *pl. 1-4.* 1898. Title in journal: *A revision of the American Lemnaceae occurring north of Mexico*. ##### n.14.245. Cacti commonly cultivated under the generic name Anhalonium **Title** *Cacti commonly cultivated under the generic name Anhalonium*... (from the ninth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden \[St. Louis\] 1898. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 20 Apr 1898, cover-t.p., p. 127-135, *pl. 32-37. Copies*: BR, G, HH, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot Gard. 9: 127-135, *pl. 32-37.* 1898. ##### n.14.246. Ornamental Cacti **Title** *Ornamental Cacti*: their culture and decorative value... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1912. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Orn. Cact.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 17 Dec 1912, p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 1-18. Copies*: BR, HH, NY. – Issued as Bull. U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. 262, 1912.