> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 225](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355312) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/22690-1) LSID 22690-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6144382) QID Q6144382 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mackay, James Townsend (1775-1862), Scottish-born gardener and botanist; went to Dublin 1804; founded the botanical garden of Trinity College, curator id. 1806-1856; LL. D. Univ. Dublin 1850. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Mackay* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Mackay*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TCD|TCD]]; only a few specimens actually located; other material [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Letters at [[Collection K|K]] and in Winch, corr. at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. – Bryological types at [[Collection FH|FH]]-Taylor. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 144; Backer p. 344; Barnhart 2: 426; BB p. 199-200; BL 2: 280-686; BM 3: 1211; Bossert p. 247; Clokie p. 205; CSP 4: 161-162; Desmond p. 408; De Toni 1: lxxx; DNB 35: 127; GR p. 377, cat. p. 67; Herder p. 170, 237; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Mackay"); IH 2: 483; Jackson p. 576; Kelly p. 136; Kew 3: 542; Lenley p. 463; LS 16203; PH 364; PR 5721-5722 (ed. 1: 6390-6391); Rehder 5: 533; SBC p. 126 ("Mack."); SO add. 844e; TL-1: 789; TL-2/4340; Tucker 1: 449. - Anon., Ann. Rep. Proc. Belfast Natural. Club ser. 2. 6: 627. 1913; Bonplandia 4: 62. 1856 (retired from curatorship Dublin bot. gard.), 10: 82. 1862 (d.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 9: 190. 1862; J. Hortic. 27: 457-458. 1862; Österr. bot. Z. 12: 129. 1862. (d.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 430. 1880. - Colgan, N., Fl. County Dublin xxvi. 1904. - Colgan, N. & R. W. Scully, Cybele hibernica ed. 2, xxix. 1898 (herb. at TCD). - Dickinson, C. I., Phycol. Bull. 1:13. 1952. - Fletcher, H. R., Roy. bot. Gard. Edinburgh 71, 73. 1970. - Gager, C. S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 267. 1938. - Hooker, W. J., Comp. bot. Mag. 1: 158. 1835; J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1:91. 1849 (LL.D). - Kent, D. H., Brit. herb. 66. 1957. - Knowles, M. C, Proc. R. Irish Acad. 38B(10): 182-183. 1929. - Lett, H. W., Irish Naturalist 22: 28, 32. 1913; Ann. Rep. Proc. Belfast Natural. Field. Cl. ser. 2. 6: 622, 627. 1913. - Mackay, J. T., Mag. nat. Hist. 4: 167. 1831; Gard. Mag. 7: 229-230. 1831. - Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Bot. Mag. Dedic. 119-120. 1931 (portr.; b. 29 Jan 1775, d. 25 Feb 1862). - Praeger, R. L., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 7: cxxix. 1901; Botanist in Ireland 78. 1934; Some Irish naturalists 125. 1949 (portr. p. 120a). - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 513. 1977 (bryol. types FH). - Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von, Bot. Zeit. 20: 152. 1862. - Scully. R. W., Fl. County Kerry xii-xiii. 1916. #### Eponymy *Mackaia* S. F. Gray (1821, *nom. rej.*); *Mackaya* Arnott (1838, *nom. rej.*); *Mackaya* W. H. Harvey (1859, *nom. cons.*). ### Publications ##### n.5182. A catalogue of the plants found in Ireland **Title** *A catalogue of the plants found in Ireland*, with descriptions of some of the rarer sorts... Dublin (R. Graisberry,...) 1825. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Ireland*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1825, p. \[1\]-98. *Copies*: FI, NY. ##### n.5183. Flora hibernica **Title** *Flora hibernica* comprising the flowering plants ferns Characeae Musci Hepaticae Lichenes and Algae of Ireland arranged according to the natural system with a synopsis of the genera according to the Linnaean system... Dublin (William Curry Jun. and Company), London (Simpkin Marshall and Co.), Edinburgh (Fraser and Co.). 1836. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. hibern.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1836 (P & W; p. x: 10 Mai 1836), p. \[i\]-xxxiv, \[1-3\], \[1\]-354, \[1\]-279. *Copies*: FI, G, MO, NY, USDA; IDC 907. – Part 2 (musci, hepaticae and lichenes) by Thomas Taylor \[x-1848\], see preface and Knowles (1929).