> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 33](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068275) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3591-1) LSID 3591-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5004372) QID Q5004372 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Halsted, Byron David (1852-1918), American botanist and pioneer phytopathologist; graduate of Michigan Agricultural College; D.Sc. Harvard 1878; amateur baseball pitcher; at Iowa Agricultural College 1885-1889; one of the original members of the Advisory board for the North American Flora; professor of botany at Rutgers College and botanist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station 1889-1918. **Abbreviated name**: *Halst.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Halst.*\] #### Herbarium and types Herbarium material collected in C. America at [[Collection CS|CS]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]], [[Collection UTC|UTC]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection WVA|WVU]]. Halsted also distributed (1893) "a century of weed seeds" in vials with printed labels. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 116; BL 1: 197, 299; Bossert p. 160; CSP 10: 122, 14: 824, 15: 596-598; IH 2: 251; Kew 2: 564; Lenley p. 209; LS 10829-11056, 34025-34091 (major source of bibl. details!); NAF 7(15): 1067; NW p. 47; Rehder 5: 360; Stevenson p. 1244 ("Halst."); Tucker 1: 314. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1919: 152, 1921: 14; Nature 102: 93-94. 1918; Torreya 18(8): 176. 7 Sep 1918; Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 19: 33-35. 1912, 20: 31-33. 1913. - Boone, W., Hist. bot. W. Virg. 34. 1965. - Cook, Bot. Gaz. 67(2): 169-170. 1919 (portr.). - Britton, N. L., J. New York Bot. Gard. 19: 221. 1918. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 83. 1969. - Fairchild, Phytopathology 9(1): 1-6. 1919 (portr.). - Hesler, Biogr. Sketches North Amer. mycol. 1975, mss. - Murrill, W. A., Mycologia 10(6): 293-294. 1918; Historic found. bot. Florida 35. 1945. - Philips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 132, 450, 1963. - Rickett, H. W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 42-43. 1955. - Rodgers, A. D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 495 \[index\]. 1949. - Stevens et al., Amer. J. Bot. 7: 305-317. 1920. - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 179. 1903, 3(3): 196. 1905. - Wood, R. D., Monogr. Charac. 1: 813. 1965. #### Composite works - (1) *American agriculturist*, managing editor 1879-1885. - (2) *Bulletin Torrey bot. Club*, Associate editor (1890-1893). - (3) Associate editor to *Systematic flora of North America* (later North American Flora) 1890-1893. #### Thesis Classification and description of the American species of Characeae, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 20: 169-190. 5 Mar 1879. #### Eponymy *Halstedia* F. L. Stevens (1920).