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### Author
Gardiner, William (1808-1852), Scottish umbrella-maker and amateur botanist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Gardiner* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gardiner*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection DEE|DEE]], also material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection GOD|GOD]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection SLBI|SLBI]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection TOR|TOR]].
*Exsiccatae*: *Twenty lessons on British mosses; first steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants... illustrated with specimens* (46 pp., 18 specimens, Dundee 1846; *second series* 58 p., 25 specimens, Aug-Sep 1849, *third* enlarged edition 50 p., 38 specimens, fourth edition 51 p., 25 (or 33?) specimens 1852) (PR 3194), see Sayre for further details.
*Ref*.: IH 2: 217; Kent p. 55.
- Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 299. 1916.
- Kent, British herbaria 55. 1953.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 169. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 82. 1970.
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 203. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 29; BB p. 118; BM 2: 640, 6: 357; BL 2: 295, 309; CSP 2: 767, 15: 207; GR p. 398; Jackson p. 549 \[index\]; LE 9604-9605; PR 3194-3195.
- Scrymgeour, Gard. Chron. 1852: p. 406, 423-424.
- Stevenson, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 26: 155-156. 1913.
### Publications
##### n.1950. The flora of Forfarshire
**Title**
*The flora of Forfarshire*. London (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans), Edinburgh (David Mathers, J. Menzies), Dundee (P. Shaw, W. Middleton), Perth (P. R. Drummond) 1848. Duod.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Forfarshire*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1848 (p. vi: 10 Nov 1847), p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-308, *1 pl. Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 640; PR 3195.