> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 226](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355313) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5936-1) LSID 5936-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21520260) QID Q21520260 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author M'Ken \[McKen, Mac Kerc\], Mark John (1823-1872), Scottish gardener and plant collector; in Jamaica 1847; curator Natal botanical garden 1851-1853, 1860-1872; with the Tongut (Tongaart) Sugar Estate 1853-1860 as pioneer of the S. Afr. sugar industry. **Abbreviated name**: *M'Ken* \[standard form in IPNI: *McKen*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; further material [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection NH|NH]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 366; Backer p. 344; BB p. 200; Desmond p. 408; IF p. 716; IH 2: 483; Jackson p. 350-351; Kew 3: 542; PR 5723-5724 (sub Mac Kerc); Rehder 5: 533. - Anon., Bot.Not. 1873: 28 (d. 20 Apr 1872); Gard. Chron. 1872: 806 (from Natal Colonist, 23 Apr 1872; obit., "... his family, a widow and six children, all under 10 years of age, are ... we fear, wholly unprovided for,..."). - Bayer, A. W., S. Afr. J. Sci. 67: 403-404. 1971 (mentions journal recording build-up Natal bot. Gard.). - Gager, C. S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 325. 1938. - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 106. 1970. - Jackson, B. D., Bull misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 43 (pl. K.). - Reichenbach, H. G., Bot. Zeit. 30: 526. 1872. - Trimen, H., J. Bot. 10: 223-224. 1872. - White, A. & B. L. Sloane, The Stapelieae 149. 1933, ed. 2. 102, 103. 897. 1937. #### Composite works list of ferns (p. 187-188) in chapter on indigenous plants (p. 166-190) in Henry Brooks (ed. R. J. Mann), *Natal*; *a history and description of the colony*... London (L. Reeve & Co.,...) 1876, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1-3\], \[1\]-336. *Copy*: G. #### Note Notwithstanding the help of our South-African colleagues at Pretoria and Cape Town we were unable to locate a copy of (PR 5724), *Synopsis filicum capensium* (1870). #### Eponymy *Mackenia* W. H. Harvey (1868). ### Publications ##### n.5186. The ferns of Natal **Title** *The ferns of Natal*. 1869. Pietermaritzburg (printed by P. Davis & Sons,...) 1869. **Abbreviated title**: *Ferns Natal*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1869 (p. 1: 1 Jan 1869; J. Bot. Mar 1870), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-28. *Copy*: PRE (inf. O. A. Leistner, E. A. Schelpe). *Revised list of the Ferns of Natal*, by Rev. John Buchanan, A. M. Reprinted from the "Natal Colonist." Natal (P. Davis and Sons, Durban and Maritzburg) 1875, p. \[1\]-30. *Copy*: PRE (p. iv: Aug 1875). (*Rev. list ferns Natal*). *Ref*.: Kuhn, M., Bot. Zeit. 29: 503-504. 1871.