> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 83](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189554) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7370-1) LSID 7370-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522660) QID Q21522660 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Parsons, Mary Elizabeth (1859-1947), American popular writer on wild plants, born in Chicago; to California as a young girl, first at San Rafael and later at Kentfield. **Abbreviated name**: *M. Parsons* \[standard form in IPNI: *M.Parsons*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Kew 4: 242; Rehder 1: 327. #### Biofile - Ewan, J. et al., Leafl. W. Bot. 7(3): 56. 1953. - Howell, J.T., *in* M.E. Parsons, Wild fl. Calif. 1955 ed., preface. - Parsons, M.E., Amer. Fern J. 51: 74. 1961 (copy letter to Maxon). ### Publications ##### n.7416. The wild flowers of California **Title** *The wild flowers of California* their names, haunts and habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons illustrated by Margaret Warriner Buck. San Francisco (William Doxey,...) 1897. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Wild fl. Calif.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1897 (p. xii: 15 Oct 1897; Bot. Centralbl. 14 Apr 1898 Nat. Nov. Apr(2) 1898), p. \[i\]-xlviii, \[1\]-410 (209 pl. in pagination). *Copies*: E, MO, UC, USDA. *Sixth Thousand*: 1904 (J. NYBG Nov 1905), p. \[i\]-xlviii, \[1\]-411. *Copy*: USDA. San Francisco (Payot, Upham & Company). *Eighth Thousand*: 1907 (preface Nov 1906), p. \[i\]-cvi, \[1\]-417. – Plates newly made following the destruction of the previous plates in the April 1906 earthquake. (Inf. R. Schmid). *Twelfth Thousand*: 1912, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-cvi, \[1\]-417. *Copy*: USDA. San Francisco (Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch). *Sixteenth Thousand*: 1916, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-cvi, \[1\]-417. *Copy*: MO. *Twentieth Thousand*: 1921 (copy US signed by author 4 Dec 1921), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-cvi, \[1\]-417. *Copy*: US. *Twenty-seventh Thousand*: 1955, col. frontisp. + 5 other col. pl., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-cvi, \[1\]-423. *Copies*: BR, UC. – California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 1955, with an apppendix by J.T. Howell on p. 418-423, updating nomenclature and giving some biographical details. Illustrations by Margaret Warriner Buck (incl. the col. ills. here published for the first time).