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### Author
Garden, Alexander (1730-1791), American physician and botanist, correspondent of Collinson, Ellis and Linnaeus.
**Abbreviated name**: *Garden* \[standard form in IPNI: *Garden*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LINN|LINN]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 217.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 29; BB p. 118; CSP 2: 767; DNB 20: 406; KR p. 236.
- Darlington, Memorials 232, 246, 272, 274, 390 (biogr.), 409, 414, 416, 425, 436 \[letters to Bartram 394-396, 399-400\]. 1849.
- Kelly, Some American medical botanists 60-68. 1914.
- Gee, Bull. Univ. S. Carol. 72: 14-16. 1918.
- Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 423-424. 1920.
- Fagin, William Bartram 6, 19 \[index\]. 1933.
- Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 184 \[index\]. 1940.
- Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr Alexander Garden 373-375. 1969.
#### Eponymy
*Gardenia* J. Colden (1756, *nom. rej.*); *Gardenia* J. Ellis (1761, *nom. cons.*); *Gardeniola* Chamisso (1834); *Gardeniopsis* Miquel (1868).