> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 205](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068447) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3948-1) LSID 3948-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77663) QID Q77663 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Hillebrand, Wilhelm (1821-1886), German physician, botanist, and traveller who lived for twenty years in the Hawaiian Islands (1851-1871). **Abbreviated name**: *Hillebr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hillebr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (the ferns and some other material preserved); duplicates [[Collection BISH|BISH]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CU|CU]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]]; (in part distributed as *Reliquae Hillebrandianae*). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 177; BL 1: 110, 301; BM 2: 845; Bossert p. 175; CSP 15: 850; Hortus 3: 1195; HR; IF p. 703; IH 2: 276; Lenley p. 223; MW p. 178; Rehder 5: 393; SK 1: xxv, 232, 5: cclxxxv; Tucker 1: 341; Urban-Berl. p. 265, 302, 320, 357. - Allen, Science 74: 60-62. 1931 (on H's son, W.F.H., with notes on W.H.). - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 44: 542-543. 1886; Bot. Jahrb. 14 (Beibl. 32): 29-30. 1891 (herb.). - Brewer, W. H., *in* S. Watson, Bot. Calif. 2: 558. 1880 (Calif, coll.). - Degener, O., Hawaii Weekly 18 Nov 1951, p. 3 (portr.); Asa Gray Bull. ser. 2. 3: 193-198. 1957 (portr.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 10, 144. 1969. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 33: 164-165. 1887. - Hillebrand, W. F., *in* W. Hillebrand, Fl. Haw. Isl. vii-xii. 1888 (facs. ed. 1965). - MacCaughey, Haw. Forester Agric. 16(2): 49-50. 1919. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 338-339. 1975. - Stafleu, F. A., Taxon 15: 328. 1966. - St. John, H., Chron. bot. 7(2): 69-70. Mar 1942 (on a letter by H. to A. Gray). #### Eponymy *Hillebrandia* D. Oliver (1866). ### Publications ##### n.2778. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands **Title** *Flora of the Hawaiian Islands*: a description of their phanerogams and vascular cryptogams by William Hillebrand, M.D. Annotated and published after the author's death by W. F. Hillebrand. London (Williams & Norgate), New York (B. Westermann & Co.), Heidelberg (Carl Winter) 1888. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Hawaiian Isl.* **Notes** *Editor*: William Francis Hillebrand (1853-1925), chemist (see Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 12: 43-70). *Publ*.: Mar 1888 (Bot. Zeit. 30 Mar 1888; Bot. Jahrb. 27 Mar 1888; J. Bot. rev. Apr 1888; Nat. Nov. Apr 1888), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xcvi, \[1\]-673, 4 maps. *Copies*: R. S. Cowan, G, MICH, MO, NY, U, US, USDA. – In a letter to Asa Gray (GH) Hillebrand recalls that he started work on the *Flora* during the winter of 1871-72 at Cambridge, Mass., with Gray's assistance (St. John 1942). *Facsimile ed*.: New York and London (Hafner Publishing Company) 1965, (half-title added; new t.p. and p. \[ii\]). *Copies*: FAS, NY. *Supplementary publ*.: Heller, A. A., Obs. ferns flow. pl. Haw. Isl., Minn. bot. Stud. 1: 760-922, *pl. 42-69.* 1897 (Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., Bot. ser. 2. 9). *Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Gaz. 13: 166-167. Jun 1888. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 26: 122-124. 1888. - Drude, G. C, Bot. Zeit. 46: 640-643. 5 Oct 1888.