> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 500](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266177) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/17576-1) LSID 17576-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16066497) QID Q16066497 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Cummings, Clara Eaton|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Cummings, Clara Eaton (1855-1906), American botanist (lichenologist) and teacher in botany, born in Plymouth, N.H., educated on New Hampshire normal School in Plymouth, N.H., studied at Wellesley College 1876-1880, curator of the museum of the college 1878-1879, instructor in botany 1879-1886, studied at the University of Zürich 1886-1887 (with Arnold Dodel), returned to Wellesley 1887, associate professor of cryptogamic botany, temporary chairman of the department, was relieved of administrative duties in 1906. **Abbreviated name**: *Cumm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cumm.*\] #### Herbarium and types See TL-2/1: 571. – [[Collection MAINE|MAINE]] and [[Collection WELC|WELC]], fungi at [[Collection MICH|MICH]]. – Further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection GRI|GRI]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection NEBC|NEBC]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]]. *Note*: (1): For the *Decades N. Amer. Lich.* and *Lich. bor.-amer.* see TL-2/1: 571 and Bot. Zeit. 51(II): 30. 1893 (360 nos. issued). - (2) *Lichenes Boreali-Americana 1894-1905*, 280 numbers issued (by Cummings with T.A. Williams and A.B. Seymour). – See also Zahlbruckner, Bot. Centralbl. 93(32): 151. 18 Aug 1903. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 403 (b. 13 Jul 1855, Plymouth, N.H., d. 28 Dec 1906, Concord, N.Y.); BM 6: 242; Bossert p. 89; CSP 14: 340 (sub Cooley); Ewan ed. 2: 53; GR p. 185-186; GR cat. p. 62; Hawksworth p. 182; IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 146-147 (q.v.); Lenley p. 130-131; LS 6414-6419, 32.420-32.423, LS suppl. 5897; NW p. 43; SBC p. 118; TL-2/1: 571 (see also sub A.B. Seymour in vol. 5); Urban-Berl. p. 297. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 66(18-19): 164. 1896, 75(34): 236. 1898, 104(33): 352. 2 Apr 1907 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 23: 218-219. 1897, 27: 416-417. 1899; Hedwigia 44(4)(Beibl.): (180). 10 Jul 1905 (to Jamaica for lichens), 46(3)(Beibl.): (143). 8 Jun 1907 (d. 28 Dec 1906); Bryologist 16(3): 31-34. 1 Mar 1907 (biogr.); Nat. Nov. 29: 155. 1907 (d. 28 Dec 1906); Bot. Not. 1907: 167 (d.); Rev. bryol. 34: 126. 1907 (d.); Science ser. 2. 25: 77-78. 1907 (obit.); Torreya 7(2): 47. 28 Feb 1907 (d. 28 Dec 1906), 10(1): 26. 1941 (Wellesley \["WELC"\] obtained Cummings' herb.); J. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 63. 1908. - Barnhart, J.H., Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 12: 125. 1911. - Day, M.A., Rhodora 3: 219. 1901. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 95. 1969. - Fink, B., Bryologist 10(1): 37-41. 1907 (portr., bibl.). - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 16: 355. 1980 (Lich. at M). - Reid, A.M.M., Occas. Pap. Farlow Herb. 19: 12-13. 1987. - Riddle, L.W., Mycologia 4: 125-140. 1912 (Enum. lichens coll. by C.). - Rudolph, E.D., Amer. J. Bot. 69(8): 1346-1355. 1982. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 119. 1969 (details on *Decades N. Amer. Lich*. 1-36, nos. 1-360. 1892-1903). - Steere, W.C., Bot. Rev. 43(3): 290. 1977. #### Composite works - (1) Cummings, C.E. *in* L.L. Dame, F.S. Collins et al., *Flora of Middlesex County*, Mass., Malden (Middlesex Institute) p. 1-201. 1888 (p. 165-174 Lichens by C.). - (2) Cummings, C.E., *Cryptogams collected by C.Willard Hayes* in Alaska, Nat. Geogr. Mag. 4: 160-162. 15 Mai 1892. - (3) Cummings, C.E., *in* Grace E. Cooley, *Plants*, collected in Alaska and Namaimo B.C. Jul-Aug 1891, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 19: 229-249. 10 Aug 1892 (list of 45 mosses and 29 lichens p. 247-249). - (4) Cummings, C.E., *in* B.L. Robinson and J.M. Greenman, *On the flora of the Galapagos Islands*... collections of Dr. G. Baur, Amer. J. Sci. 50: 135-149. 1 Aug 1895 (six species by Cummings on p. 149). - (5) Cummings, C.E., *in* Walter Deane, *The flora of the Blue Hills*, Middlesex Fells, Stony Brook and Beaver Brook Reservations... Mass., Boston, C.R. Barrows and Co., p. i-viii, 1-144, 1896, a list of 36 taxa on p. 133-136. - (6) Review by Cummings, C.E. of Schneider's *Text-Book of Lichenology* (TL-2/10.937), Bot. Gaz. 25: 284-286. Apr 1898. - (7) Cummings, C.E., *in* A.H. Brooks, G.B. Richardson, A.J. Collier, *Reconnaissance of the Cape Nome*... Alaska 1900. House document 547 (vol. 124), serial no. 498, 1-222. 1901 *with* list of *ten common lichens* on p. 167, det. by Miss Cummings. - (8) Cummings, C.E., *in* Charles Mohr, *Pl. life Alabama*, TL-2/6193. – A list of 225 species and varieties of lichens with notes on distribution on p. 267-283. - (9) Cummings, C.E., *in* F.B. Delabasse, Report. *Brown-Haward Exp. Nachvak*, Labrador in ... 1900. Bull. Geogr. Soc. Philadelphia 3: 65-212. 1902; an annotated list of 43 lichens on p. 196-200. - (10) Cardot, J., Cummings, C.E., and others, *Cryptogamic botany*, vol. 5 of Harriman Alaska Expedition, New York (Doubleday Page & Co.) 1904, 424 p., *44 pl*. – See e.g. H. Solms, Bot. Zeit. 62(12): 186. 16 Jun 1904 (rev.). – See also below *Lichens of Alaska*. ### Publications ##### n.28.420. Catalogue of musci and hepaticae of North America **Title** *Catalogue of musci and hepaticae of North America*, North of Mexico... Natick, Mass. (Howard & Stiles, printers) 1885. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Catal. musci hep. N. Amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1885, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-24. *Copies*: B, BKL, G, HH. *Ref*.: Anon., Hedwigia 25(4): 161. Jul-Aug 1886. ##### n.28.421. Lichens of Alaska **Title** The *Lichens of Alaska*... New York (Doubleday, Page & Company) 1904. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 26 Mar 1904 (Bot. Centralbl. 14 Jun 1904), p. \[64\]-\[152\], *pl. 8-9* (uncol. liths. by Maud Metcalf). *Copy*: U. – *In*: Harriman Alaska Expedition... Alaska vol. 5, Cryptogamic botany, by Y. Cardot and seven other authors, New York, 1904 (p. 1-424), see CW (10). *Ref*.: Maxon, W.R., Bot. Centralbl. 96(31): 120. 9 Aug 1904 (rev.).