> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 83](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189554) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12725-1) LSID 12725-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4815074) QID Q4815074 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Parsons, Frances Theodora (formerly Mrs. William Starr Dana; née Smith) (1861-1952), American popular writer on botany. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Parsons* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Parsons*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 52; Ewan (ed. 1): 169; Lenley p. 321. #### Biofile - Clute, W.N., Fern Bull. 7: 74-75. 1899; 10: 20-21. 1902 (portr.). - Coulter, J.M., Bot. Gaz. 27: 484. 1899. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 99. 1969. - Tilton, G.H., Fern Lover's Comp. 212, 214. 1922 (n.v.). #### Eponymy *Parsonsia* P. Browne (1756, *nom. rej.*) and *Parsonsia* R. Brown (1810, *nom. cons.*) were named in memory of James Parsons (1705-1770) an English medical doctor who studied seeds microscopically. ### Publications ##### n.7415. How to know the ferns **Title** *How to know the ferns* a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns ....Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith... New York (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1899. **Abbreviated title**: *How to know ferns*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1899 (p. vii: 6 Mar 1899; Bot. Centralbl. 25 Mai 1899; BG: 22 Jun 1899; Fern Bull. Jul 1899; Bot. Zeit. 16 Oct 1899; Nat. Nov. Mai (1) 1899), frontisp. p. \[i\]-xiv, \[xv\], 1-215, *pl. 1-42. Copies*: MO, US. *Ed. 2*: 1899 (Hedwigia 10 Aug 1899); front., p. \[i\]-xiv, \[xv\], 1-215, *pl. 1-42. Copy*: NY. – Second edition. New York (id.) 1899.