> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 349](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355436) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6194-1) LSID 6194-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11925452) QID Q11925452 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.