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> [!example] See also [[Coker, William Chambers (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Coker, William Chambers (1872-1953), American mycologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Coker* \[standard form in IPNI: *Coker*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection NCU|NCU]], also material at [[Collection NY|NY]].
*Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 132.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 364; BL 1: 161, 204, 213; Bossert p. 79; CSP 14: 298; Kew 1: 584-585; LS 5428, 32182-32185, suppl. 5359-5390.
- Couch and Matthews, Mycologia 46: 372-383. 1954 (bibl., portr.)
### Publications
##### n.1161. The plant life of Hartsville, S. C.
**Title**
*The plant life of Hartsville, S. C.* Columbia S. C. (The State Co.) 1912. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pl. life Hartsville*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Dec 1912 (Harper 1913), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-129, *pl. 1-15. Copy*: NY. – Original publication of p. 3-38, with the plates, in J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 27: 165-205, *pl. 1-15*. 1912 (misprinted "vol. xxxviii, December, 1911.").
*Ref*.: Harper, Torreya 13(6): 139-144. Jun 1913.
##### n.1162. The Saprolegniaceae with notes on other water molds
**Title**
*The Saprolegniaceae with notes on other water molds*... With sixty-three plates. Chapel Hill, N. C., (The University of North Carolina Press) 1923. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Saprolegniac.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1923, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-201, *pl. 1-63* with text. *Copies*: BR, MICH, U, USDA.
*Facsimile ed*.: Lehre (J. Cramer) 1969, Bibliotheca mycologica Bd. 20. *Copy*: FAS.
*Ref*.: Kew 1: 585; LS 5370.
##### n.1163. The Clavarias of the United States and Canada
**Title**
*The Clavarias of the United States and Canada*... with ninety-two plates. Chapel Hill, N. C. (The University of North Carolina Press) 1923. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Clavar. U.S.*
**Notes**
*Orig. ed*.: 1923, p. \[1\]-209, *pl. 1-92. Copies*: BR, MICH, NY, Stevenson.
*Facsimile ed*.: Lehre (J. Cramer) 1973. Bibliotheca mycologica Bd. 39. *Copy*: FAS. – The *facsimile* reprint is preceded by an introduction by R. H. Petersen providing a survey of the later literature (p. i-xiv). The plates are partly coloured in the original, uncoloured in the facsimile reprint. See also Taxon 23: 205-206 (1974).
*Ref*.: Kew 1: 585; LS suppl. 5369.
##### n.1164. The Gasteromycetes of the eastern United States and Canada
**Title**
*The Gasteromycetes of the eastern United States and Canada*... With 123 plates. Chapel Hill, N. C. (The University of North Carolina Press) 1928. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Gasteromycetes east. U.S.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*: John Nathaniel Couch (1896-x).
*Orig. ed*.: 1928 (preface Jun 1927), p. \[iii\]-ix, 1-201, *pl. 1-123* with text. *Copies*: MICH,. NY, USDA.
*Facsimile ed*. \[1\]: Lehre (J. Cramer) 1969, Bibliotheca mycologica Bd. 19. *Copy*: FAS.
*Facsimile ed*. \[2\]: New York (Dover) 1975, includes also Minnie May Johnson, *The* *Gasteromycetes of Ohio*, 1929, 82 p., *3 pl*. (n.v., see Garden J. 25: 126, 1975).
*Ref*.: Kew 1: 585; LS 5386.