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### Author
Mason, Herbert Louis (1896-x), American botanist; B.A. Stanford 1922; Ph.D. Berkeley 1932; Mills. coll. 1923-1925; Univ. of Calif. Berkeley, in various functions from 1925.
**Abbreviated name**: *H. Mason* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.Mason*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection UC|UC]]; early collections at [[Collection DS|DS]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 457 (b. 3 Jan 1896); Bossert p. 256; Hortus 3: 1199 ("H. L. Mason"); IH 2: 511; Langman p. 483-484; Roon p. 74; Zander ed. 10, p. 689, ed. 11, p. 786.
- Reifschneider, O., Biogr. Nevada bot. 115-116. 1964 (portr.).
#### Note
Mason published *A flora of the marshes of California*, Berkeley and Los Angeles (University of California Press) 1957, viii, 878 p.
#### Eponymy
*Masonophycus* W. A. Setchell & N. L. Gardner (1930). *Note*: *Masonhalea* I. Kärnefelt (1977) is dedicated to Mason Ellsworth Hale Jr. (1928-x), American lichenologist. *Masonia* G. Smith (1952), *Masoniella* G. Smith (1952) and *Masoniomyces* J. L. Crane & K. P. Dumont (1975), commemorate Edmund William Mason (1890-1975), English mycologist, to whom also *Edmundmasonia* C. V. Subramanian (1958) is dedicated. The derivation of *Masonia* C. P. Hansford (1944) is not given by Hansford.