> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 105](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189576) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7394-1) LSID 7394-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522689) QID Q21522689 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Patterson, Harry Norton (1853-1919), American printer, botanist and explorer, editor proprietor of the Oquawka \[Ill.\]. Spectator 1884-1908 **Abbreviated name**: *H. Patt.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Patt.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection F|F]] (30.000 acquired for [[Collection F|F]] by C.F. Millspaugh); further material in many herbaria e.g. [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CART|CART]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection HBG|HBG]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection QK|QK]], [[Collection RPM|RPM]], [[Collection RSA|RSA]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]. – Issued sets of exsiccatae: *Flora of Colorado* (seen: nos. 167-304, 1892), accompanied by printed lists. Manuscript material in Smithsonian Archives. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 55; BL 1: 174, 175, 312; Bossert p. 302; Clokie p. 22; Ewan ed. 1: 61, 73-78, 80, 154, 279 (portr., biogr., bibl., b. 15 Feb 1853, d. 23 Mai 1919), ed. 2: 170; Kew 4: 247-248; Langman p. 570; Morren ed. 10, p. 119; NW p. 54; Pennell p. 616; Rehder 5: 652; Tucker 1: 145, 543. #### Biofile - Allison, E.M., Univ. Colo. Stud. 6: 69. 1909 (coll.). - Coulter, J.M., Bot. Gaz. 30: 144. 1900 (herb., 30.000 sheets, acquired by F). - Ewan, J., Trail and Timberline 293: 62-63. 1943 (portr., chronology, further references to – mainly local and rare – eulogies and obituaries). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 45. 1969. - Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.D., Index coll. Edinb. herb. 117. 1970. - Hitchcock, A.S. & A. Chase, Man. Grass. U.S. 988. 1951. - Kibbe, A.L., ed., Harry Norton Patterson. Afield with plant lovers and collectors, botanical correspondence... 1870-1919, 565 p., 1953. - Sargent, C.S., Silva 4: 24. 1891. #### Composite works With S. Watson, q.v., *Catalogue of plants* collected in the years 1871, 1872, and 1873, Washington 1874. #### Note Patterson printed the early sets of the Gray Herbarium Index. ("Gray Cat."). #### Eponymy Mt. Sniktau, Colorado, commemorates Patterson's brother E.H.N. Patterson as well as Patterson himself. "Sniktau" was the pseudonym used by P's brother as publisher of the Georgetown Miner, Colo. See Ewan (1943). ### Publications ##### n.7502. A list of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka **Title** *A list of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka*, Henderson County, Ills.,... Oquawka Spectator Print 1874. **Abbreviated title**: *List pl. Oquawka*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1874 (p. i: Jan 1874), p. \[i\], \[1\]-18. *Copies*: MO, NY, USDA. – Cover title only. ##### n.7503. Catalogue of the phaenogamous and vascular cryptogamous plants of Illinois **Title** *Catalogue of the phaenogamous and vascular cryptogamous plants of Illinois* native and introduced. Oquawka, Ill. ("Spectator" Print) 1876. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Illinois*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1876 (p. \[v\]: 1 Mar 1876), p, \[i-v\], \[1\]-54. *Copies*: MICH, NY, USDA. ##### n.7504. Check-list of North American Gamopetalae **Title** *Check-list of North American Gamopetalae*, from Gray's Synoptical flora... Oquawka, Ill. (H.N. Patterson, printer) s.d. \[1880\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Checkl. N. Amer. Gamopet.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880 (Bot. Gaz. Dec 1880), p. \[i\], \[1\]-43. *Copy*: MICH, NY, US, USDA. *Check-list of North American Gamopetalae after Compositae*. From Gray's Synoptical flora and later publications... Oquawka, Ill. (id.). s.d., p. \[1\]-12. *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY. – Also 1880? We have not been able to establish a date for this pamphlet, which, as the 1880 list, is a simple enumeration of names. ##### n.7505. Check list of North American Polypetalae **Title** *Check list of North American Polypetalae*. From Watson's Bibliographical index and later publications... \[H.N. Patterson, Publisher, Oquawka, Ills.\] Id. **Abbreviated title**: *Check list N. Amer. Polypet.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1881 (Bot. Gaz. Apr 1881), p. \[1\]-20. *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY. – Errata slip with MO copy. A simple enumeration of names. – E. Wycoff, Bibl. contr. Lloyd Libr. 9: 396 dates this pamphlet at 1874. ##### n.7506. Check-list of North American plants **Title** *Check-list of North American plants*, including Mexican species which approach the U.S. Boundary. Oquawka, Ills. (H.N. Patterson, publisher) 1887. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Checkl. N. Amer. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1887 (TBC Feb 1887; US copy(1) handwritten note: Mar 1887), p. \[3\]-151. *Copies*: MO, NY, PH, US(2), USDA. – Errata slip with US (first copy). *Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 14: 36. 1887. ##### n.7507. Patterson's numbered check-list of North American plants **Title** *Patterson's numbered check-list of North American plants* north of Mexico... Oquawka, Ill. (H.N. Patterson, publisher) January, 1892. **Abbreviated title**: *Numb. checkl. N. Amer. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: in 4 issues, differing only in paper and binding, all Jan 1892. *Issue*: "Style A. – Price $1.50" Herbarium list, p. \[i-iii\], p. \[1\]-158. *Copies*: MO, PH. *Issue*: "Style B. – Price $1.75": Jan 1892, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-158. *Copies*: NY, US, USDA. – Herbarium list, printed on one side. *Issue*: "Style C. – Price 75c.": Jan 1892, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-158. *Copies*: *US, USDA*. – *Mailing list, light paper, paper covers.* *Issue*: "Style D. – Price $1.00": Jan 1892, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-158. *Copies*: NY, US. – As issue C, but printed on one side.*Collaborators*: William Trelease (1857-1945): Epilobium; Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1854-1923): Euphorbia; Michael Schuck Bebb (1833-1895): Salix; George Vasey (1822-1893): Gramineae; George Edward Davenport (1833-1907): Filices and Ophioglossaceae. *General advice*: Sereno Watson (1826-1892). *Number of species*: 10.706 (12.794 taxa). *Ref*.: Britton, N.L., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 19: 101. 5 Mar 1892.