> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 796](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333935) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9982-1) LSID 9982-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609334) QID Q21609334 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sprague, Charles James (1823-1903), American banker, poet, mycologist and lichenologist at Boston; curator of the herbarium of the Boston Society for Natural History. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Sprague* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Sprague*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FH|FH]] (lichen herbarium of 2600 specimens). – *Letters* at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (Ellis papers). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 311 (b. 16 Jan 1823, d. 5 Aug 1903); Bossert p. 379; CSP 5: 781; IH 1 (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 343; LS 25605-25612; Morren ed. 10, p. 122; PH p. 58; Rehder 5: 817; Tucker 1: 664. #### Biofile - Anon., New York Times 6 Aug 1903; Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 23: 309. 1888 (lichen coll. rd); Rhodora 3: 70-71. 1901 (lich. at Boston Soc. nat. Hist.), 5: 234. 1903 (obit. not.); Torreya 3: 128. 1903 (d.); Who's who Amer. 1899-1902; Who was who Amer. 1: 1165. 1968. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 7. 1969. - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 11. 1981. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 5: 637. 1888. #### Eponymy *Spragueola* Massee (1896).