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### Author
Farlow, William Gilson (1844-1919), American botanist, professor of cryptogamic botany at Harvard.
**Abbreviated name**: *Farl.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Farl.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection FH|FH]]; duplicates from Farlow's herbarium were distributed in *Reliquae Farlowianae* to many herbaria.
*Exsiccatae*: *Algae exsiccatae americae borealis* (fasc. i-v, nos. 1-230, Boston 1877-1889), sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection STR|STR]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection W|W]] (with Charles Lewis Anderson, 1827-1919 and Daniel Cady Eaton, 1834-1895).
*Ref*.: IH 2: 190.
- Day, Rhodora 3: 242. 1901.
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Garden 19(1): 72-73. 1969.
- Koster, Taxon 18: 552. 1969.
- Stevenson, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 165. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 527; BM 2: 556-557, 6: 313; Bossert p. 122; CSP 7: 639, 9: 829-830, 12: 231, 14: 926; GR p. 188; Jackson p. 168, 496; LS 8285-8356, 33143. 33147, suppl. 7997-7999; Zander ed. 10, p. 657.
- Gray, Letters 2: 832 \[index\]. 1893.
- Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 50. 1898.
- Anon., J. Mycol. 9: opp. p. I. 1903 (portr.)
- Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 178. *pl. 36.* 1903 (portr.), 3(3): 195. 1905.
- Reynolds Green, Hist. bot. 51. 1909.
- Lloyd, Mycol. Notes 40: 541-542. 1916 (portr.)
- Mangin, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris 169(11): 445-448. 1919.
- S.H.V., Ann. Bot. 33(132): xv-xvi. 1919.
- Thaxter, Harvard Graduates Mag. 1919: 269-277. 1919 (portr.)
- Thaxter et al., Harvard Univ. Gaz. 15: 60. 1919.
- Wakefield, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1919: 388-390. 1919.
- Blakeslee et al., Amer. J. Bot. 7: 173-181. 1920 (portr., bibl.)
- Clinton, Phytopathology 10: 1-8. 1920 (portr.)
- Riddle, Rhodora 21: 1-8. 1920 (portr.)
- Thaxter, Bot. Gaz. 69: 83-87. 1920 (portr.)
- Thaxter, Amer. J. Sci. 49(290): 87-95. 1920 (portr.)
- Jackson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 57: 484-491. 1922.
- Setchell, Nat. Acad. Sci. Mem. 21: 1-22. 1927 (portr., bibl.)
- Thaxter, Harvard Alumni Bull. 29(24): 679-686. 1927.
- Robinson, *in* S. E. Morison, Development Harvard Univ. since inaug. pres. Eliot 366-370. 1930.
- Moebius, Gesch. Bot. 134. 1937.
- Barnhart, NAF 7(15): 1063. 1940.
- Rodgers, John Merle Coulter 313. 1944.
- Rodgers, Amer. bot. 1873-1892: 328 \[index\]. 1944.
- Linder et al., Farlowia 2(1): 1-96. 1945 (corr., portr.)
- Rodgers, Liberty Hyde Bailey 494. 1949.
- Dupree, Asa Gray 487 \[index\], 1959.
- Humphrey, Makers N. Amer. bot. 83-85. 1961.
- Ewan, Short hist. bot. US 165 \[index\]. 1969.
- Ainsworth and Bisby, Dict. fungi ed. 6: 204-205. 1971.
- Lenley et al., Cat. manuser. coll. New York Bot. Hard. 162-163. 1973.
#### Eponymy (genera)
*Farlowia* J. G. Agardh (1876); *Farlowia* P. A. Saccardo (1883); *Farlowiella* P. Kornmann (1956); *Farlowiella* P. A. Saccardo (1891); (journal): *Farlowia* a journal of cryptogamic botany, published by Farlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass. Vol. 1-4. 1943-1955.
#### Handwriting
Farlowia 2(1): *plate I*. 1945.
### Publications
##### n.1739. Bibliographical index of North American fungi
**Title**
*Bibliographical index of North American fungi*. 1905. Oct. †.
**Abbreviated title**: *Bibl. index N. Amer. fung.*
**Notes**
*Vol. 1*: \[i\]-xxxv, 1-312. 1 Sep 1905 (no more published). *Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: Barnhart, NAF 7(15): 1063. 1940.
##### n.1740. Marine algae of New England
**Title**
*Marine algae of New England* and adjacent coast. Washington (Government Printing Office) 1881. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Mar. alg. New England*.
**Notes**
*Orig. issue*: Jan-Jun 1881 (Hedwigia and Nat. Nov. Aug 1881), p. \[i\], \[1\]-210, *pl. 1-15*, errata slip, reprinted from Report U.S. Fish Commission for 1879. *Copy*: UC.
*Re-issue*: 1891, no change except date on t.p. *Copy*: UC.
*Facsimile ed*.: Lehre (J. Cramer) 1969, Bibliotheca phycologica vol. 8, no change. *Copy*: FAS.
*Ref*.: BM 2: 557; IDC 6359.
- Anon., Hedwigia 20: 128, 151-152. 1881.
##### n.1741. A provisional host-index of the fungi of the United States
**Title**
*A provisional host-index of the fungi of the United States*. Cambridge \[Mass.\] 1888-1891. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Prov. host-index fung. U.S.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*: Arthur Bliss Seymour (1859-1933).
*Part 1*: Polypetalae, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-51, \[53, add.\], Aug 1888. *Copy*: NY.
*Part 2*: Gamopetalae-Apetalae, p. \[53\]-133, Sep 1890. *Copy*: NY.
*Part 3*: p. \[135\]-219, Jun 1891. *Copy*: NY.
Ref.: BM 2: 557; LS 8353-8355.
Barnhart, NAF 7(15): 1063. 1940.
Anon., Hedwigia 28: 142. 1889.
##### n.1742. Icones farlowianae
**Title**
*Icones farlowianae* illustrations of the larger fungi of Eastern North America by William Gilson Farlow, with descriptive text by Edward Angus Burt. Cambridge, Mass. (Farlow Herbarium) 1929. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Ic. farl.*
**Notes**
*Author of text*: Edward Angus Burt (1859-1939).
*Publ*.: 1929 (p. x: 22 Feb 1928), \[i\]-x, \[1, h.t.\], \[1\]-120, *pl. 1-103. Copies*: MO, NY.