> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 229](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355316) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5948-1) LSID 5948-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822624) QID Q822624 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author M'Mahon \[McMahon\], Bernard (c. 1775-1816), Irish-born American horticulturist and seedsman at Philadelphia; author of the first American gardener's guide. **Abbreviated name**: *M'Mahon* \[standard form in IPNI: *M'Mahon*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 348; Barnhart 2: 430 (d. 16 Sep 1816); BB p. 201; DAB (by R.H. Sudds); Desmond p. 411 (d. 16 Sep 1816); Frank 3(Anh.): 61; ME 1: 209, 3: 620; PR 5725 (ed. 1: 6393); Tucker 1: 450. - Bailey, L. H., Standard Cycl. Hort. 3: 1586. 1915; 2: 1586. 1939. - Barnhart, J. H., Bartonia 9: 40. 1926. - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldw. 34, 47, 80, 82, 83, 91, 97, 114. 1843. - Ewan, J., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 3: 363-380, pl. 3. 1960 (biogr., bibl., main study); *in* F. Pursh, Fl. Amer. sept. facs. repr. 1979, intr. p. 20. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U. S. 5, 136. 1969. - Graustein, J. E., Thomas Nuttall 471 \[index\]. 1967. - Harshberger, J., Bot. Philadelphia 117-119. 1899. - Hedrick, U. P., Hist. hort. America 197-203, 540. 1950. - Mears, J. A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122: 165. 1978 (pl. PH). - Nuttall, Th., Gen. N. Arner. pl. 1:211-212. 1818. - Sargent, C. S., Silva 7: 86-87. 1895. - Wilks, W., ed., Journal David Douglas 8. 1914 (1959). #### Handwriting J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 3: *pl. 3*. 1960. #### Note See Ewan, J. (1960) for an extensive study of M as a nurseryman and his *American* *gardeners Calendar* (ed. 1, 1802/3; ed. 11, 1857). #### Eponymy *Mahonia* Nuttall (1818, *nom. cons.*).