> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 31](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120162) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/150-1) LSID 150-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21505087) QID Q21505087 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Allen, John Fisk (1807-1876), American botanist, of Salem, Mass. **Abbreviated name**: *J.F. Allen* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.F.Allen*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 32. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 40; BM 1: 30; Kew 1: 41; ME 3: 528; NI 16; PR 104. - Ewan, Short hist. bot. US 46. 1969. #### Eponymy *Allenia* Ewart (1909) is dedicated to H. B. Allen; *Allenia* Phillips (1940) is dedicated to Robert Allen Dyer (1900-1937), South-African botanist. ### Publications ##### n.85. Victoria regia **Title** *Victoria regia*; or the great water lily of America. With a brief account of its discovery and introduction into cultivation: with illustrations by William Sharp, from specimens grown at Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.... Boston (printed and published for the author by Dutton et Wentworth) 1854. Broadsheet. **Abbreviated title**: *Victoria regia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1854 – p. \[1\]-16, \[1 ind.\], 6 coloured plates, lithographs of drawings by William Sharp. *Copies*: MO, NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 30; GFB p. 47; Kew 1: 41; ME 3: 468; NI 16; PR 104. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 7: 95-96. 1855.