> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 339](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068581) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4132-1) LSID 4132-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4500277) QID Q4500277 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Host, Nicolaus Thomas (1761-1834), Austrian imperial physician to Franz I and botanist at Vienna. **Abbreviated name**: *Host* \[standard form in IPNI: *Host*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection W|W]]; further material at [[Collection B|B]] (in Bridel herb., extant), [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (in Thunberg herb.). #### Bibliography and biography ADB 13: 190; AG 2(1): 35; 12(3): 630; Backer p. 274; Barnhart 2: 207; BM 2: 879; Dawson p. 5, 430, 446; Dryander 2: 164, 215, 246, 3: 648; DTS 1: 128, 6(4): 7; Frank 3(Anh.): 46; GF p. 60; GR p. 434; Hortus 3: 1196 ("Host"); IH 2: 287; Jackson p. 263; Kanitz 95; Kew 3: 42; Lasègue p. 402; LS 12687; Maiwald p. 119, 178; NI 935-936; Plesch p. 270; PR 4284-4287 (ed. 1: 4721-4724); Rehder 5: 407; Saccardo 1: 90; Sotheby 367; Tucker 1: 353; Urban-Berl. p. 358, 414; WU 9: 340-341; Zander ed. 10, p. 672-673. - Anon., Flora 17: 126-127. 1834. - Beck, G., Vegetationsverh. lllyr. Länder 3, 36. 1901 (Veg. Erde 4). - Dolezal, H., Friedrich Welwitsch 27, 108, 111-112. 1974. - Hausmann, F., Flora von Tirol 3: 1180-1181. 1854. - Hoppe, D. H., ed., Flora 17: 126-127. 1834. - Neilreich, A., Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 5: 35-36. 1855. - Nissen, C., Philobiblon 6(9): 337. 1933. - Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19: 455. 1847. #### Handwriting Candollea 30: 401-402. 1975. #### Eponymy *Hosta* N. J. Jacquin (1797, *nom. rej.*); *Hosta* Trattinick (1814, *nom. cons.*); *Hostana* Persoon (1806); *Hostea* Willdenow (1798); *Hostia* Moench (1802). ### Publications ##### n.3066. Synopsis plantarum **Title** Nicolai Thomae Host... *Synopsis plantarum* in Austria provinciisque adiacentibus sponte crescentium. Vindobonae \[Wien\] (sumptibus Christ. Frieder. Wappler) 1797. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1797, p. \[i-xx\], \[1\]-666, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: L, MICH, MO, NY, USDA; IDC 651. ##### n.3067. lones et descriptiones graminum austriacorum **Title** Nicolai Thomae Host... *lones et descriptiones graminum austriacorum*... Vindobonae \[Wien\] (typis Matthiae Andreae Schmidt,...) 1801-1809, 4 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. descr. gram. austriac.* **Notes** *1*: 1801, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-74, *pl. 1-100* (numbered col. unsigned copper engr.). *2*: 1802, p. \[i\], \[1\]-72, *pl. 1-100* (id.). *3*: 1805, p. \[i\], \[1\]-66, *pl. 1-100* (id.). *4*: 1809, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-58, \[1-3, ind.\], *pl. 1-100* (id.). *Copies*: MO, NY; IDC 704.-Plates by J. Ibmayer, fide vol. 4, p. 56 (except vol. 4, *pl. 38* which has "Johanes Baptista Jebmaier"). Originals in National-bibliothek, Wien (fide NI). ##### n.3068. Flora austriaca **Title** Nicolai Thomae Host,...*Flora austriaca*... Viennae (1: sumptibus Car. Ferd. Beck; 2: sumptibus Frider. Beck...) 1827-1831, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. austriac.* **Notes** *Vol. 1*: 1827 (Flora ann. 21 Jan 1827), p. \[i-xi\], \[1\]-576, \[1, err.\]. *Vol. 2*: 1831, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-768. *Copies*: MO, NY, U, USDA; IDC 8322.-Kanitz (no. 95): "Die in diesem Werke aufgestellten neuen Arten führe ich darum nicht an, da sie grösstentheils unhaltbar sind..." *Ref*.: Anon., Lit. Ber. Flora 4: 113-125. 1834. - Hoppe, D. H., ed., Flora 14: 91-94, 344. 1831. ##### n.3069. Salix **Title** Nicolai Thomae Host... *Salix*. Vol. I. Vindobonae \[Wien\] (Typis viduae Antonii Strauss) 1828. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Salix*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1828-Mar 1830, in parts (letters Jacquin to de Candolle, 8 Jan 1828, 25 Mar 1830, at G), p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-34, *pl. 1-21, "23" = 22, "22" = 23, 24-67, "86" = 68, 69-105. Copies*: BR, G, MO; IDC 5969.-105 unsigned handcoloured engraved plates by J. Ibmayer.-Jacquin, in a letter to de Candolle, dated 10 Mar 1834, mentions the circumstance that 53 illustrations were ready for a second volume, of which 11 had already been engraved, printed and coloured. Beetz (see NI 936) mentions the existence of a further 140 incomplete drawings; all these are now in the Porträtsammlung of the Nationalbibliothek, Vienna.