> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 782](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069024) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5390-1) LSID 5390-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1376182) QID Q1376182 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Leconte, Major John \[Eatton\] (1784-1860), American topographical engineer, soldier, botanical and entomological collector, author and artist. **Abbreviated name**: *Leconte* \[standard form in IPNI: *Leconte*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]]. – Leconte's water-colors of plants were acquired by E. L. Greene in 1897; they are now at [[Collection NDG|NDG]]. (*continued on p. 804*) *Ref*.: Baird, Amer. midl. Natural. 20(1): 245-247. 1938 (correlation of water-colors of violets and the names used by Leconte with the names used by Ezra Brainerd). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 358; Bossert p. 231; CSP 3: 915-916, 8: 184, 12: 435, 16: 663; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Le Conte"); IH 2: 442; Kew 3: 393; Langman p. 433; Lasègue p. 198, 303, 315, 505; Lenley p. 462; ME 3: 613 \[index\]; PR (alph.); Tucker 1: 417-418 Barnhart, J. H., Amer. midl. Naturalist 5: 135-138. 1917 (bibl.); Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16(3): 8. 1921. - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldw. 57, 164, 155, 156, 157, 161. 162, 205, 206, 280, 283, 285, 286, 289, 303, 332, 334, 344. 1843. - Earle Smith, Bartonia 28: 13. 1956. - Geiser, S. W., Natural. Frontier 244. 1948. - Graham, M., *in* Greene E. L., Pittonia 1: 303-311. 1889 (reminiscences). - Graustein, J. E., Thomas Nuttall 99, 120, 153, 160, 291. 1967. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 31: 462-463. 1861; Bot. Gaz. 8: 197-199. 1883. - Harshberger, J. W., Bot. Philadelphia 149-151. 1899 (inaccurate). - Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 129, 438. 1963. - Rehn, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 98(6): 442-448. 1954 (paintings of invertebr.). - Rodgers, A. D., John Torrey 344 \[index\]. 1942; Amer. bot. 1873-18992. 331 \[index\]. 1944. - Scudder, Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 11: i-xxvii. 1885. #### Note L. usually wrote his name John Leconte; however the full name John Eatton Leconte is to be preferred to avoid bibliographical confusion with e.g. John LeConte (1818-1891) (nephew), and John Lawrence LeConte (1825-1883). The family name has also been spelled LeConte, Le Conte and Lecompte. We follow Rehn (1954) in accepting "John Eatton Leconte". – See Barnhart (1917) for a list of L's botanical works (with precise dates) and for the attribution of a "Catalogue of the flora in Georgia" to him. #### Eponymy *Lecontea* A. Richard ex A. P. de Candolle (1830).