> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 720](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068962) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5205-1) LSID 5205-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q891966) QID Q891966 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Lagasca y Segura \[La Gasca\], Mariano (1776-1839), Spanish botanist at the Madrid botanical garden; in exile to England 1822; in Jersey 1831-1834; back to Spain 1834-1839. **Abbreviated name**: *Lag.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lag.*\] #### Herbarium and types original herbarium destroyed during his flight from Madrid to Gibraltar (1822). Some material at [[Collection MA|MA]], but also in [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection MEXU|MEXU]]. Types probably mainly at [[Collection MA|MA]] and [[Collection FI|FI]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Hortus siccus londinensis*; or a collection of dried specimens of plants, growing wild within twenty miles round London, named on the authority of the Banksian herbarium, and other original collections, – four fascicles with accompanying text: 1, Dec 1827, 25 specimens; 2, early 1827, 25 specimens; 3, early April 1827, 30 specimens; 4, Jul-Dec 1827, 40 specimens (81-110, and Suppl. 111-120). No new species are described. Sets at [[Collection MICH|MICH]] (1-4), and [[Collection OXF|OXF]] (1-3). McVaugh (1968) reports the existence of a further two complete copies in Mexico City. *Ref*.: Druce G. C., and Britten J., J. Bot. \[London\] 46: 163-170. 1908. - McVaugh, R., Mich. Botanist 7: 11-13. 1968 (*Hort. sicc. Lond.*). - Bellot and Casaseca, Lagascalia 5(1): 15-26. 1975 (type species at MA). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 164, 5(2): 2; Backer p. 311; Barnhart 2: 334; BB p. 179; BM 3: 1044; Clokie p. 196; Colmeiro 1: clxxxii-clxxxiii; CSP 3: 801-802; Desmond p. 367; Frank 3 (Anh.): 54; GR p. 761; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Lag"); IF p. 713; Jackson p. 446; Kew 3: 347; Langman p. 424; Lasègue p. 348; LS 14730; MW p. 260; NAF 28B(2): 441, ser. 2. 2: 163, 5: 245; PR 4982-4988; Rehder 5: 482; SBC p. 125 ("Lag."); TL-2/1: 1066; Tucker 1: 407; Zander ed. 10, p. 682. - Alvarez Lopez, Anal. Inst. bot. Cavanilles 18: 9-13, 37. 1960 (portr.). - Anon., Flora 2: 63. 1819, 24: 176. 1841; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 71-72. 1840 (1849). - Bellot Rodriguez, F., Lagascalia 6(2): 203-208. 1976 ("Lagasca como politico"). - Bellot Rodriguez, F. et al., Simposio conmerativo del centenario de Lagasca, Sevilla 1976: 47. (abstract only; fide Kew Rec.). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 46: 169-170. 1908. - Britten, J., and Jackson, B. D., J. Bot. 62: 355-358. 1924 ("347"-"350") (Lagasca in England). - Bulguerias, Anal. Inst. Bot. Cavanilles 10(1): 119-127. 1951 (letter to Bardají, 1808). - Candolle, A. P. de, Mém. souvenirs 216, 218-219. 1867. - Carrasco, Lagascalia 6(2): 219-221. 1976 (two species). - Carreno, Ann. Sci. nat. ser. 2. 14: 146-161. 1840. - Casaseca, Lagascalia 6(2): 191-201. 1976 (life). - Colmeiro, M., La botánica y los botanicos de la peninsula hispano-lusitana 191-195. 1858. - Constance et al., Rev. Biol. trop. 23: 137-153. 1975 (letter by L. to de Candolle). - Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 62. 1934 (letter to J. E. Smith). - Fernandez-Galiano y Valdes, Lagascalia 6: 179-189. 1976. - Hooker, W. J., Bot. Misc. 1: 64. 1829. - Kent, D. H., Hist. fl. Middlesex 20. 1972. - Lester-Garland, L. V., Fl. Island Jersey x. 1903. - Malato-Beliz, Lagascalia 6(2): 209-214. 1976 (L. and Vavilov). - Muñoz Medina, D. J., Hist. Desarr. Bot. Espana 10, 20-21. 1969. - Prosper, Eduardo Reyes, Dos noticias historicas del... d. Antonio José Cavanilles y d. Mariano La Gasca y Segura, Madrid 1912 (Lagasca p. 210-251; n.v., copy at LINN). - Steele, A. R., Flowers for the King 302-303, 308, 322, 325-326. 1964. - Téllez Molina, Lagascalia 6(2): 215-218. 1976 (L. as agric. botanist). - Willkomm, M., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Iber. Halbins. 7-8, 25. 1896 (Veg. Erde 1). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 166. 1903. - Yannez y Girona, Elogio historico de Mariana Lagasca y Segura. Madrid 1840. Oct. (fide PR ed. 1, p. 358; portr.); Bot. Zeit. 1: 334-335. 1843 (extr.). #### Handwriting Anal. Inst. Bot. Cavanilles 10(1): 123-126. 1951; Candollea 31: 149-150. 1976. #### Composite works Lagasca and S. de Rojas Clemente, Introducion a la criptogamia de Espana, *Anal. Ci. nat. Madrid*, 5(14): 135-215. Aug 1802 (see e.g. SY p. 12). #### Eponymy (genera): *Lagasca* Cavanilles (1803, *orth. rej.*); *Lagascea* Cavanilles; corr. Willdenow (1809, *orth. et nom. cons.*); (journal): *Lagascalia*. Sevilla. Vol. 1-x. 1971-x. ### Publications ##### n.4096. Amenidades naturales de las Españas **Title** *Amenidades naturales de las Españas*: o bien disertaciones varias sobre las producciones naturales espontaneas, ó conaturalizades en los dominios españoles... Orihuela. (En la Imprenta de la Muy Ilustre Junta) Año de 1811 \[numero segundo 1821\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Amen. nat. Españ.* **Notes** *1* (*1*): 1811 (pref. 19 Apr 1811), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-44. *1* (*2*): 1821 (p. 60: 15 Jul 1821), p. \[45\]-111. – *Imprint*: Madrid (por Ibarra, Impresor de cámara de S.M.) 1821. *Copies*: G, MO (part 1), NY, P, USDA; IDC 5999. ##### n.4097. Elenchus plantarum **Title** *Elenchus plantarum*, quae in horto regio botanico matritensi colebantur anno mdcccxv. Cum novarum, aut minus cognitarum stirpium diagnosi, nonnullarumque descriptionibus contractis. Matriti \[Madrid\] (ex typographia Regia) 1816. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Elench. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun-Dec 1816 (prob. Jun-Jul; in a letter from Lagasca to A. P. de Candolle (G), dated pridie kal. Junii \[31 Mai\] 1816; the former states that the work is being printed \[information R. McVaugh\]; p. \[v\] dated kalendis Aprilis 1816). – The *Elenchus* consists of unnumbered pages \[i-viii\] containing title-page and preface, and p. \[1\]-20 containing the *Elenchus* itself followed by 35 pages (printed as \[\[1\]\]-\[35\]) containing the *Generum specierumque plantarum novarum aut minus cognitarum diagnoses*. This text was also issued separately (PR 4985) under the title: *Genera et species plantarum, quae aut novae sunt, aut nondum recte cognoscuntur*. Madrid 1816. Qu. with two plates \[lacking from the *Elenchus*\], a separate title-page and introduction "Lectori" and "Notarum explicatio". This separate edition (also with preface dated kal. Apr. 1816) can be assumed to have been published almost simultaneously with the Elenchus. (see 4098). *Copies*: G, McYaugh, NY, IDC 6000. ##### n.4098. Genera et species plantarum **Title** *Genera et species plantarum*, quae aut novae sunt aut nondum recte cognoscuntur... Matriti \[Madrid\] (ex typographia regia) 1816. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. sp. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun-Dec 1816 (see no. 4097), p. \[i-vii\], \[1\]-35, *2 pl*. (uncol. copper engr. by A. D. Meneses). *Copies*: L, M, MO, NY, U, USDA; IDC 6000. ##### n.4099. Memoria sobre las plantas Barrilleras **Title** *Memoria sobre las plantas Barrilleras* de España: por D. Mariano La Gasca... Madrid (en la Imprenta Real) 1817. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Mem. pl. Barrill.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1817, p. \[i-x\], \[1\]-84, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: G, L. *Ref*.: Anon., Flora 2: 14. 7 Jan 1819. ##### n.4100. Observaciones sobre la familia natural de las plantas aparasoladas **Title** *Observaciones sobre la familia natural de las plantas aparasoladas*, (Umbelliferae.)... Londres \[London\] Año de 1826. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Observ. pl. aparasol.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1826, p. \[i\], \[1\]-43. *Copies*: G, MO, NY (photocopy). – Reprinted from the London Spanish emigrant journal *Ocios de Españoles Emigrados* vol. 4.