> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 257](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355344) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/22764-1) LSID 22764-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048774) QID Q3048774 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mains, Edwin Butterworth (1890-1968), American mycologist; Ph. D. Univ. Mich. 1916; at Purdue University 1916-1930; from 1930 professor of botany and from 1931 director of the herbarium of the University of Michigan; retired 1960. **Abbreviated name**: *Mains* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mains*\] #### Herbarium and types Main collections of fungi at [[Collection MICH|MICH]]; further material e.g. at [[Collection PUR|PUR]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 438; Hawksworth p. 184; Hirsch p. 186-187; IH 1(ed. 6): 361, 2: 493; Kew 3: 566; LS suppl. 17001-17033; Kelly p. 139; MW suppl. p. 215; NAF 7(15): 1078; PH 209, 437; Roon p. 73; Stevenson p. 1250; TL-2/1: 781. - Hesler, L. R., Biogr. sketches N. Amer, mycol. 1975, mss. - Mains, E. B., *in* W. A. Donelly et al., Univ. Mich, encycl. surv. 1450, 1451. 1956. - Rickett, H. W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 67. 1955. - Rogers, D. P., Brief hist. mycol. N. America 36. 1977. - Rogerson, C. T., Mycologia index 960. 1968. - Smith, A. H., Mycologia 61: 449-451. 1969 (portr.), (b. 31 Mar 1890; d. 23 Sep 1968). #### Composite works Co-author with F. D. Kern et al. of J. C. Arthur (ed. and part author), *The plant rusts*, New York 1929. #### Eponymy *Mainsia* H. S.Jackson (1931).