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### Author
Horwood, Arthur Reginald (1879-1937), British lichenologist and palaeobotanist; from 1902-1922 at the Leicester City Museum, from 1924-1937 at Kew.
**Abbreviated name**: *Horw.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Horw.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LEI|LEI]], [[Collection LTR|LTR]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]]; further material at [[Collection BFT|BFT]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]].
*Ref*.: Jackson, B.D., J. Bot. 75: 113-114. 1937 (herbarium divided).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 205; BL 2: 193, 220 (q.v. for the semipopular "*A new British flora*", publ. 1921, 6 vols.), 253-254, 670; BM 6: 486, 7: 629; Clokie p. 186; Desmond p. 323; GR p. 373, cat. p. 65; IH 2: 287; Kew 3: 38-39; LS 12685, 34758-34764, suppl. 12304.
- Anon., Nature 139: 538. 1937; The Times 3 March 1937 (fide Desmond).
- Hawksworth, D. L. & M. R. D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 26, 98, 198, 1977.
- Horwood, A. R., A new British flora, 1919-1921, 6 vols.
- Jackson, B. D., J. Bot. 75: 113. 1937; Bot. Soc. Exch. Cl. Brit. Isl. Rep. 11: 435-436. 1938.
- Turrill, W. B., Proc. Linn. Soc. 149: 195-196. 1937.
#### Note
Horwood was one of the first authors to draw attention to the disappearance of certain cryptogams, especially lichens, in recent times, see e.g. J. Bot. 45: 334-399. 1907 and further publications listed e.g. by LS.
#### Eponymy
*Horwoodia* W. B. Turrill (1939).
### Publications
##### n.3057. A hand-list of the lichens of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands
**Title**
*A hand-list of the lichens of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Islands*. Compiled for the lichen exchange club of the British Isles by the secretary, A. R. Horwood...Leicester (T. H. Jeays & Sons,...), London (sold and published by Messrs. Dulau & Co. Ltd.,...) s.d. \[1912\]. Oct. (size).
**Abbreviated title**: *Hand-list lich. Gr. Britain.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Sep-Oct 1912 (Nat. nov. (1). 1912; J. Bot. Jan 1913), p. \[1\]-45 *Copy*: MICH.
*Ref*.: Reader, J. Bot. 51: 28-29. Jan 1913.
##### n.3058. The flora of Leicestershire and Rutland
**Title**
*The flora of Leicestershire and Rutland* a topographical, ecological, and historical account with biographies of former botanists (1620-1933)... Oxford University Press London: Humphrey Milford 1933. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Leicestershire*.
**Notes**
*Co-author*: Charles William Francis Noel, 3rd earl of Gainsborough (1850-1926).
*Publ*.: Sep 1933 (p. \[ii\], xi: Jul 1933; Nat. Nov. Dec 1933), front, portr. Pulteney, p. \[i\]-ccxcvii, \[1\]-687, *pl* and *maps* i-xxxvi. *Copies*: BR, HH, NY, USDA.
*Ref*.: Rendle, A. B., J. Bot. 72: 27-29. Jan 1934.