> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 742](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120873) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/18462-1) LSID 18462-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6206643) QID Q6206643 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Ellis, Job Bicknell (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Ellis, Job Bicknell (1829-1905), American mycologist. **Abbreviated name**: *Ellis* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ellis*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]]; manuscripts and correspondence: [[Collection NY|NY]]. *Exsiccatae*: 1. *Fungi nova-caesareenses* (original title of *North American fungi*, see below), 10 sets distributed, partly at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection PHIL|PHIL]] and split up at [[Collection NY|NY]]. 2. *North American fungi*, series I (cent. i-xv, nos. 1-1500, Newfield, New Jersey, 1878-1885) sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection NHES|NHES]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OSC|OSC]], [[Collection RUT|RUT]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]], [[Collection WVA|WVA]]. 3. *North American fungi*, series II, with Benjamin Matlack Everhart (1818-1904) (cent. xvi-xxxvi, nos. 1501-3600, 1886-1898), sets at [[Collection AUT|AUT]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection CS|CS]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection LPS|LPS]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MAINE|MAINE]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection MU|MU]], [[Collection NCU|NCU]], [[Collection NDA|NDA]], [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NHES|NHES]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection OC|OC]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection OSC|OSC]], [[Collection PAC|PAC]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]], [[Collection RUT|RUT]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection RMS|SOLH]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]], [[Collection UBC|UBC]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection WSP|WSP]], [[Collection WVA|WVA]] (full details see Stevenson). 4. *Fungi colombiani*, with Benjamin Matlack Everhart (1818-1904) (cent. i-li, nos. 1-5100, 1893, cent. i-xiv by Ellis and Everhart, cent. xv by C. L. Shear, cent. xvi-li, details see Stevenson). Sets at [[Collection ARIZ|ARIZ]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection BRU|BRU]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection FHKSC|FHKSC]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection GA|GA]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection KANU|KANU]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MONT|MONT]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NDA|NDA]], [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NHES|NHES]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection OC|OC]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection OSC|OSC]], [[Collection OTB|OTB]] \[[[Collection OTF|OTF?]]\], [[Collection PAC|PAC]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]], [[Collection RM|RM]], [[Collection RSA|RSA]], [[Collection RUTPP|RUTPP]], [[Collection SCHN|SCHN]], [[Collection SDC|SDC]], [[Collection RMS|SOLH]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection UMO|UMO]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection WIM|WIM]] \[[[Collection WIN|WIN]]?\], [[Collection WIS|WIS]], [[Collection WSP|WSP]], [[Collection WVA|WVA]]. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 358, 2: 181; NAF 7: 1061; 9: 434. - Stevenson, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 99-164. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 505; BM 2: 523; Bossert p. 115; CSP 12: 217, 14: 823-824; GR p. 187; LS 7838-7998; ME 1: 181. - Ellis, Hedwigia 19(8): 136. 1880. - Anderson, Bot. Gaz. 15(11): 299-304. 1890 (portr.) - Harshberger, Botanists of Philadelphia 259-272, 444. 1899. - Anon., J. Mycol. 8: opp. 49. 1902 (portr.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 178. 1903, 3(3): 194. 1905. - Farlow, List of the works of Job Bicknell Ellis, s.l. Aug 1906 (preprint from Farlow, List of works on N. Am. Fungi ed. 2.) - Kellermann, J. Mycol. 12: 41-45. 1906 (portr.) - Rehm, Ann. mycol. 4(4): 341-343. 1906. - Lloyd, Mycol. Notes 39: 525-526. 1915 (portr.) - Barnhart, NAF 9(6): 434-435. 1916, 7(15): 1061-1062. 1940 (bibl.) - Fox, Fothergill 426 \[index\]. 1919. - Rodgers, Amer. Bot. 1873-1892, p. 15, 212, 231, 314. 1944. - Humphrey, Makers of N. Amer. Bot. 79-81. 1961. - Lenley et. al., Cat. manuscr. Coll. New York Bot. Gard. 151-153. 1973 (corr.) #### Composite works Ellis founded (with W. A. Kellerman) the *Jorunal of Mycology* (1885). #### Eponymy *Ellisia* A. Chaves Batista & G. E. P. Peres (1965); *Ellisiella* P. A. Saccardo (1881); *Ellisiellina* Sousa da Camara (1949); *Ellisiodothis* Theissen (1914); *Ellisiopsis *A. Chaves Batista (1956). *Note*: *Ellisiophyllum* Maximowicz (1871) is dedicated to John Ellis (1711-1776), q.v.; *Ellisiella* R. E. Norris (1965) is dedicated to W. N. Ellis, English phycologist. ### Publications ##### n.1660. The North American pyrenomycetes **Title** *The North American pyrenomycetes*. A contribution to mycologic botany, by J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart. With original illustrations by F. W. Anderson. Newfield, New Jersey (authors) 1892. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *N. Amer. pyrenomyc.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Benjamin Matlack Everhart (1818-1904). *Illustrator*: Frederick William Anderson (1866-1891). *Publ*.: Jan-Jul 1892 (p. ii: copyright 8 Dec 1890; Nat. Nov. Aug 1892), p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-iii, \[1\]-11 (analytical key), 1-793, *pl. 1-41* with text. *Copies*: NY, Stevenson.