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### Author
Coleman, Rev. William Higgins (1816?-1863), British clergyman and botanist at Hertford and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
**Abbreviated name**: *Coleman* \[standard form in IPNI: *Coleman*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Not traced, some material at [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection K|K]].
*Ref*.: BB p. 69.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 48. 1957.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 366; BB p. 69; BL 2: 245, 254; BM 1: 363; CSP 2: 13; DNB 11: 290; Jackson p. 253, 255; Kew 1: 586; PR \[p. 340\].
- Anon., Flora 46: 511. 24 Nov 1863.
- Seemann, J. Bot. 1: 318. 1863.
- Maclagan, Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 8: 13. 1866.
- Pryor, Fl. Hertfordshire xlii-xliv. 1887.
#### Composite works
see R. H. Webb and W. H. Coleman, *A report of the Flora of Hertfordshire* (1843) and *Flora hertfordiensis* (1849).
### Publications
##### n.1165. The flora of Leicestershire
**Title**
*The flora of Leicestershire*, including the cryptogams, with maps of the county. Issued by the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society. Compiled by the following sub-committee of the Society's Biological Section, viz.: F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S./E. F. Cooper, F.L.S./Thos. Carter, L.L.B./J. E. M. Finch, M.D./C. W. Cooper, M.B. On the basis of a MS prepared in 1852 by the late Rev. W. H. Coleman, which has been enlarged, completed, brought up to date, mostly re-written, and entirely re-arranged, in accordance with the third edition of Hooker's "Student's Flora." London, Edinburgh (Williams and Norgate) 1886. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Leicestershire*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1886 (J. Bot. Feb 1887; Nat. Nov. Mai 1887), p. \[i\]-xxvi, 2 maps, \[1\]-372, \[1, err.\], errata slip. *Copy*: HH.
*Ref*.: BL 2: 254; BM 1: 363; Jackson p. 255; Kew 1: 586.
- Britten, J. Bot. 25: 184-185. 1887.