> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 430](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212472) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12943-1) LSID 12943-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455349) QID Q455349 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Traill, Catherine Parr (née Strickland) (1802-1899), British naturalist and writer; married Thomas Traill 1832; emigrated to Canada 1832; resident in Lakefield, Ashburnham and Rice Lake, Ontario. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Traill* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Traill*\] #### Herbarium and types Destroyed by fire (Desmond); some material at [[Collection CAN|CAN]] and [[Collection QK|QK]]. – A volume "Grasses from Stony Lake" at [[Collection DAO|DAO]] (see Dore 1966). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 397; BB p. 304; BM 5: 2131; Desmond p. 617 (b. 9 Jan 1802, d. 29 Aug 1899); GF p. 78; Jackson p. 366; NI 1980-1981; Plesch p. 439; Rehder 5: 856; Sotheby 764, 765; Tucker 1: 696. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2 (suppl.): 1445. 1878 (also 3: 2444). - Anon., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 6: 153. 1889; Bot. Centralbl. 80: 288. 1899 (d.); Bot. Not. 1900: 47 (d.); Brit. Mus gen. cat. print. books 231: 568-569. 1964; Encyclopedia canadiana 10: 119-120. 1962 (1972); Hedwigia 38: (297). 1899 (d.);J. Bot. 37: 448. 1899 (obit. not.); Rare and unusual canadiana. First supplement to the Lande Bibliography. Montreal 636 (nos. 2221, 2222). 1971. - Boase, F., Modern Engl. biogr. 6: 702. 1965. - Collard, E., Country Life 147 (3803): 182-183. 1970 (career, portr.). - Crowder, A.A., Canad. Field Natural. 88: 47-55. 1974 (coll. QK). - Dore, W.G., Ontario Natural. 1966 (Jun): 17-21 (herb.: Grasses from Stony Lake). - Eaton, S., Lady of the backwoods: a biography of C.P. Traill, Toronto 1969, xiii, 175 p. - Fitzgibbon, M.A., *in* C.P. Traill, Pearls and pebbles iii-xxxvi. 1894 (biogr. sketch, portr., handwr.). - Freeman, R.A., Brit. nat. hist. books 343. 1980 (the anonymous Sketches from nature, 1830 is by C.P. Strickland (later Traill) not by her sister Agnes Strickland). - Morgan, H.J., Canad. men women time 1017-1018. 1898. - Morris, A.Y., Gentle Pioneers 97-115. 1968. - Needler, G.H., Canad. Field. natural. 60(5): 97-101. 1946. - Thomas, C., *in* M.Q. Innis, The clear spirit, Toronto 1966, p. 42-73. - Wallace, W.S., Dict. Canad. Biogr. 401. 1926, Macmillan Dict. Canad. Biogr. 838. 1978. ### Publications ##### n.14.844. Canadian wild flowers **Title** *Canadian wild flowers*. Painted and lithographed by Agnes Fitzgibbon, with botanical descriptions by C.P. Traill... Montreal (printed and published by John Lovell) 1868. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Canad. wild fl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1868 (p. 8: Dec 1868), p. \[3\]-86, *10 pl*. (col. liths.). *Copy*: USDA. – 500 copies printed. – See Sotheby 764 for a copy dated 1869. Our information is incomplete; there are obviously various issues; see *Rare and unusual Canadiana* 1971, which lists a fourth edition of 1895. ##### n.14.845. Studies of plant life in Canada **Title** *Studies of plant life in Canada*; or gleanings from forest, lake and plain... Ottawa (A.S. Woodburn,...) 1885. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Stud. pl. life Canada*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1885 (J. Bot. Feb 1886), portr., p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-iii, err. slip, \[i\]-ix, \[1\]-288, *pl. 1-9* (col. liths. by Mrs Chamberlin). *Copy*: HH.