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### Author
Hall, Elihu (1822-1882), American botanist at Athens, Ill.; botanical explorer of the Rocky Mountains with C. C. Parry and J. P. Harbour; one of the organizers of the Illinois Natural History Society at Bloomington (1858).
**Abbreviated name**: *E. Hall* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.Hall*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection F|F]]. – Duplicates in many herbaria, see IH. Hall sold various sets of American plants. See also Ewan (1950) and Sayre (1975).
*Ref*.: Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 417. 1880.
- Groff, Bartonia 23: 48. 1945 (material at DWC).
- Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 331. 1975.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 252; Barnhart 2: 113; BM 2: 771; Bossert p. 159; CSP 7: 891, 12: 304-305, 15: 582; IH 2: 250; Kew 2: 557; Lenley p. 192; LS 10723; ME 1: 191, 2: 211, 3: 279, 316; Pennell p. 608; Rehder 1: 320, 323; Tucker 1: 311.
- Allison, Univ. Colorado Studies 6: 63. 1908.
- Anon., Funeral Notice ("Died, two miles South of Athens, Menand County Ill., Sunday morning at 5 o'clock, Sept 24, 1882, Prof. Elihu Hall, aged sixty years, three months and twenty days...") s.l.n.d. (copy MO); Bot. Not. 1883: 30.
- Brewer, *in* S. Watson, Bot. Calif. 2: 559. 1880 (coll. Oregon).
- Ewan, J., Rocky Mountain Nat. 221-222. 1950; Short hist. bot. U.S. 92. 1969.
- Geiser, S., Bot. frontier ed. 2. 275. 1948.
- Meehan, T. (?), Gardener's Monthly 24: 350. 1882.
- Milligan, Bot. Gaz. 9: 59-62. 1884.
- Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 98, 164. 1963.
- Rodgers, A. D., John Torrey 131, 133, 218, 279. 1942; Amer. bot. 1873-1892. 49, 61, 158, 216. 1944.
#### Composite works
With John Wolf, *A list of the mosses, liverworts and lichens of Illinois*, see under Wolf.
### Publications
##### n.2274. Plantae texanae
**Title**
*Plantae texanae*: a list of the plants collected in Eastern Texas in 1872, and distributed to subscribers by Elihu Hall. Salem, Mass. (Printed at the Salem Press) 1873.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pl. tex.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1873, p. \[1\]-29 (in a single gathering). *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY.