> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 794](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190265) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8398-1) LSID 8398-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933553) QID Q5933553 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Riley, John (x-1846), British pteridologist of Papplewick, Nottinghamshire. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Riley* \[standard form in IPNI: *Riley*\] #### Herbarium and types Untraced (see Newman 1847). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 157; BM 4: 1704; Desmond p. 520; Jackson p. 150; Kew 4: 473; PR 7631, ed. 1: 8587. #### Biofile - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 75. 1957 (herb. not traced). - Newman, E., Phytologist 2: 779-780. 1847 (note on his herbarium offered for sale). #### Eponymy *Rileya* A. Funk (1979) honors C.G. Riley, Canadian forest pathologist. ### Publications ##### n.9239. Catalogue of ferns **Title** *Catalogue of ferns*, after the arrangement of C. Sprengel, with additions from C.B. Presi and references to the authors by whom the species are described: to which is added a synoptical table of C.B. Presl's arrangement of genera... London (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.;...) Nottingham (W. Dearden). 1841. Qu. (in twos). **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. ferns*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1841, p.\[i-ii\], \[1\]-29. *Copies*: E, USDA; IDC 7252.