> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 412](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266719) of TL-2 Suppl. III
> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1399-1) LSID 1399-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933140) QID Q5933140
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> [!example] See also [[Carey, John|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Carey, John (1797-1880), British tradesman and botanist, born at Camberwell, London, went to the United States 1830, settled at first at Towanda, Pa., at Bellow Falls, Vermont 1831-1836, at New York 1836-1852, made a botanical journey with Asa Gray to North Carolina 1841, returned to London (G.B.), died at Blackheath, London 1880.
**Abbreviated name**: *J. Carey* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Carey*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]]. – Further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection WECO|WECO]], [[Collection WTR|WTR]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 310; BB p. 58; BM 1: 316; Bossert p. 65; CSP 1: 785; Desmond p. 118 (b. 21 Jun 1797, d. 26 Mar 1880); Hortus 3: 1190; IH 2: 115; Kew 1: 478; Lenley p. 499; ME 1: 170, 3: 548; TL-2/1: 455 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 141.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Gaz. 5(6): 61. 1880 (d.)
- Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 402. 1880.
- Day, M., Rhodora 3: 207. 1901.
- Fournier, E., Bull. Soc. bot. France 27 (Bibl.): 144. 1880 (d.).
- Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 19: 421-423. 1880 (obit.); Sci. Papers 2: 417-418. 1889.
- Hedge, I.C. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. 67. 1970.
- Hooker, W.J., J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 8: 377-378. 1850 (herb. Carey).
- Kent, D.H., Brit. herbaria 47. 1953.
- Kent, D.H. and D.E. Allan, Brit. Irish Herb. 111. 1984.
- Rodgers, A.D., W.S. Sullivant 143, 166, 177, 182, 186. 1940, John Torrey 117-119, 137, 155, 208, 260. 1942.
#### Handwriting
H.M. Burdet, Candollea 28: 413-414. 1973.
#### Correspondence
with Torrey at NY.
### Publications
##### n.24.818. Carices
**Title**
The *Carices* of the *Northern United States* (From New England to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), contributed to Gray's Manual of the botany of the Northern United States... Cambridge (Metcalf and Company...) 1847. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Carices North. U.S.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1847, p. \[i\], \[535\]-567. *Copy*: NY. – Preprinted (with specieal t.p.) from A. Gray, Manual of the botany of the Northern United States (issued 10 Feb 1848, see TL-2/2124).
##### n.24.819. Description of three new Carices
**Title**
*Description of three new Carices* and a new species of Rhynchospora... New Haven 1847. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1847, p. 22-25. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2. 4: 22-25. 1847.
*Note*: The reprint is issued combined with: A. Gray, Note upon Carex loliacea... on p. 19-22.
##### n.24.820. Notes on some Chenopodiaceae
**Title**
*Notes on some Chenopodiaceae* growing spontanously about the City of New York ... \[New Haven... 1849\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Mai 1849 (text dated 30 Nov 1848), *in* Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2. 7: 167-171. 1849. – No reprint seen.
##### n.24.821. distortion of the achenium in
**Title**
Remarks on the *distortion of the achenium in* certain species of *Carex*... \[New Haven ... 1853\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1853, *in* Amer. J. Sci. Arts 15: 22-24. 1853 (fide Tucker p. 141 and journal).