> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 273](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259777) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2794-1) LSID 2794-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21390716) QID Q21390716 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Flowers, Seville|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Flowers, Seville \[b. Bradnum, 'Bill' to his friends, 'Doc' to his students\] (1900-1968), American botanist (bryologist and phycologist), born 14 Jan 1900 in Salt Lake City, Utah, spent boyhood in Los Angeles, studied at the Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, A.B. 1925 and M.A. 1926 Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Utah, Ph.D. 1932 Univ. of Chicago, high school teacher, Price, Utah, then instructor and assoc. prof. 1936, and finally full prof. of Botany 1941-1968, Univ. of Utah, president, Amer. Bryological Society 1966-1967, died 29 Apr 1968 in Salt Lake City. **Abbreviated name**: *Flow.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Flowers*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection UT|UT]] (orig., incl. 2000 Alg.; 10,000 Bryo.; 4000 Ph.), however Fungi transfered to [[Collection NY|NY]] in 1982 and most Bryoph. transfered to [[Collection COLO|COLO]]; duplicates [[Collection ALTA|ALTA]] (Bryoph.), [[Collection BPI|BPI]] (Fungi), [[Collection GRI|GRI]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]]. – Field notes at [[Collection COLO|COLO]] and [[Collection UT|UT]]; mss. in Univ. of Utah Marriott Library (Seville Flowers papers). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 9, 2: 357; APN p. 204; Barnhart 1: 552; Blunt ed. 2: 301; Bossert p. 128; Ewan ed. 1: 210, ed. 2: 76-77; Ewan Pap. p. 70; GR p. 216; IH 2: 201; MW suppl. p. 68; NAF ser. 2(6): 63; Portr. 3: 436; SBC p. 120; TL-2/1: 848. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 468. 1931; Bryologist 71: 159. 1968. (brief biogr., phot.) - Behle, W.H., 1984. Great Basin Naturalist 44: 210-222. (bibl., portr.) - Cronquist, A. et al., 1972. Intermountain Fl. 1: 70 (fig. 51), 71. (portr.) - Sayre, G., 1971. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19: 201. - Steere, W.C., 1977. Bot. Rev. 43: 332-333. (d. "1969") - Stieber, M.T., 1982. Huntia 4: 155, 168, 199. - Weber, W.A., 1974. Bryologist 77: 276-277. #### Eponymy *Flowersia* Griff. & Buck (1989). #### Outside our period - (1) *Ferns of Utah*, Bull. Univ. Utah, Biol., ser. 4(6): 1-87. 1944. (2) Woodbury, A\[ngus\]., M\[unn\]. (1886-1964), S\[tephen\]. D\[avid\]. Durrant (1902-x) & S. Flowers, (a) *Survey* of *vegetation* in the *Glen Canyon Reservoir Basin*, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropological papers no. 36 \[Glen Canyon ser. no. 5\]: vi, 56 p. 1959. (b) A *survey* of *vegetation* in the *Flaming Gorge Reservoir Basin*, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropological papers no. 45 \[Upper Colorado ser. no. 2\]: vii, 121 p. 1960. (c)... C.E. Dibble (ed.) & C.C. Stout (assoc. ed.), A *survey* of *vegetation* in the *Navajo Reservoir Basin*, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropological papers no. 51 \[Upper Colorado ser. no. 4\]: vii, 99 p. 1961. (d) A *survey* of *vegetation* in the *Curecanti Reservoir basins*, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropological papers no.56 \[Upper Colorado ser. no. 6\]: p. viii, 98 p. 1962. - (3) Flowers, S. et al.... A.M. Woodbury (biological ed.), *Ecological studies* of the *flora* and *fauna* of *Flaming Gorge Reservoir Basin*, Utah and Wyoming, Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropological papers no. 48 \[Upper Colorado ser. no. 3\]: viii, 243 p. 1960. - (4) *The Hepaticae of Utah*, Bull. Univ. Utah, Biol., ser. 12(2): 1-89, *pl. 1-18.* 30 Mai 1961. #### Composite works - (1) Bartramiaceae *in* A.J. Grout, *Moss fl. N. Amer.* 2(3): 152-180, *pl. 67-70.* Dec 1935, see TL-2/1, nr. 2195. – *Note*: Flowers spent one summer with Grout in Newfane, Vermont and also drew the plates for this treatment. ### Publications ##### n.34.879. preliminary list **Title** A *preliminary list* of *Utah mosses*... The Bryologist... 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 25 Nov 1929 (in journal), p. \[74\]-83. *Copy*: Utah State Univ. (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Bryologist 32(4): 74-83. 1929. ##### n.34.880. Mosses **Title** *Mosses* of the *Great Salt Lake region*... The Bryologist... 1933. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Oct 1933 (in journal), p. \[34\]-43, *pl. 2* \[3 uncol. phot. on p. 41\]. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bryologist 36(1-4): 34-43. 1933. ##### n.34.881. Vegetation **Title** *Vegetation* of the *Great Salt Lake Region*... A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of the biological sciences in candidacy for the degree of doctor of philosophy. Department of Botany 1932... Reprinted from The Botanical Gazette... 1934. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1934 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[i\], 353-418. *Copies*: HH, LC (n.v.), NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gaz. 95(3): 353-418. 1934. – Also issued as Contr. Hull Bot. Lab. 450. *Note*: Flower's doctoral dissertation (1932), Univ. of Chicago. ##### n.34.882. Mosses **Title** *Mosses* of *Utah*... \[Price, Utah\] (Carbon County High School) 1934. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1934 (pref. dated Mar 1934), p. \[i-iv\], 1-88. *Copies*: MO-Steere (n.v.), NY. *Note*: Volume stencilled/mimeogr. *Posthumous ed*. \[revised, enlarged & retitled\]: 1973, *Mosses*: *Utah and the West*, \[Provo, Utah\] (Brigham Young Univ. Press), p. \[i\], \[ii =phot. of Flowers\], t.p. \[=iii\], \[iv\], v-xii \[p. ix-x, foreword by W.C. Steere; xi-xii, pref. by A.H. Holmgren\], 1-567, *pl. 1-149* (uncol. draw. by auth., included in pagination), 1 map (uncol., included in pagination), loose errata sheet. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), FH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY(2) (n.v.), US. *Editors*: Holmgren, Arthur Herman (1912-1992), see IH 2: 283; and Crum, Howard Alvin (1922-2002) (who is acknowledged only in the pref. of this edition!), see IH 2: 145. *Foreword*.: Steere, William Campbell (1907-1989), see TL-2/5: 863-865 and IH 2: 948. *Note*: (1) As noted by Weber (see rev. below), legends for *7 pl*. (nos. 126-132) are transposed. (2) Taxonomic novelties were validated (posthumously) in Bryologist 76: 286-292. 1973. *Ref*.: Weber, W.A., Bryologist 77(2): 274-276. 6 Sep 1974 (rev.). - Robinson, H., Taxon 24(1): 153-154. Feb 1975 (rev.). - Johnsen, A.B., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 101(6): 377-378. 19 Apr 1975 (rev.). - Reese, W.D., Quart. Rev. Biol. 50(2): 206. Jun 1975 (rev.). - Major, J., Ecology 56(4): 1018-1020. Jul 1975 (rev.). - Sharp, A.J. & D.K. Smith, Pl. Sci. Bull. 21: 58. Dec 1975 (rev.). - *Reprints* \[*of 1973 ed*.\]: (a) 2001,... Caldwell, New Jersey (The Blackburn Press), xii, 567 p. *Copy*: MO (n.v.); (b) Id. 2005,... *Copy*: LC (n.v.). ##### n.34.883. Brood patches **Title** *Brood patches* in *Philonotis*... The Bryologist... 1935. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Aug 1935 (in journal), p. \[8\]-9, *pl. 3* (uncol. draw.). *Copy*: Utah State Univ. (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Bryologist 38(1): 8-9, *pl. 3.* 1935.