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### Author
Beck, Lewis Caleb (1798-1853), American physician and naturalist at Albany, New York.
**Abbreviated name**: *L. C. Beck* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.C.Beck*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection NYS|NYS]] \[?\], duplicates [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection W|W]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 63.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 149; BM 1: 119, 6: 70; CSP 1: 228-229, 6: 58, 12: 60; IF p. 680; Jackson p. 361; Kew 1: 197; ME 1: 164, 3: 391, 411, 536; PR 541.
- Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 16: 149-150. 1853 (bibl.)
- March, *in* Grosse, Amer. med. Biogr. 1861: 679-696 (fide ME).
- Merrill, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1904: 690.
- House, *in* Kelly and Burrage, Amer. med. Biogr. 1920: 87.
- Barnhart, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 290. 1921.
- Rodgers, John Torrey 336 \[index\]. 1942.
- Ewan, Short history botany U.S. 90, 97. 1969.
- Martin, *in* Lenley et al., Index corr. Torrey 447. 1973.
#### Composite works
Eaton, *Manual*, ed. 4, 1824, appendix by L. C. Beck.
#### Eponymy
*Neobeckia* E. L. Greene (1896).
### Publications
##### n.388. Botany of the northern and middle states
**Title**
*Botany of the northern and middle states*; or, a description of the plants found in the United States, north of Virginia, arranged according to the natural system. With a synopsis of the genera according to the Linnaean system – a sketch of the rudiments of botany, and a glossary of terms. Albany (Webster and Skinners) 1833. Duod. (in sixes)
**Abbreviated title**: *Bot. north, middle states*.
**Notes**
*Ed. 1*: Mai-Jun 1833 (data BH), p. \[i\]-lv, \[1\]-471. *Copy*: BR.
*Ed. 2*: 'revised and enlarged, ' New York (Harper & Brothers) 1848. Duod., publ. 1848 (p. iv: Feb 1848), p. \[i\]-lxiii, \[1\]-480 "Botany of the United States North of Virginia; comprising descriptions of the flowering and fern-like plants hitherto found in those states, arranged according to the natural system; with a synopsis... terms." *Copies*: HH, MICH.
*Reissue*: 1856, New York (Harper and Brothers), cancellans t.p., rest 1848 sheets, p. \[i\]-xiii, \[1\]-480. Duod. *Copies*: MICH, NY.
*Reissue*: 1868, New York (Harper and Brothers), cancellans t.p., rest 1868 sheets, p. \[i\]-lxiii, \[1\]-480. Duod. *Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 119; IF 680; Jackson 361; Kew 1: 197; ME 3: 411; PR 541; IDC 5113.