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### Author
Maximowicz, Carl Johann (Ivanovic) (1827-1891), Russian botanist and explorer, at St. Petersburg from 1852; travelled in Eastern Asia 1853-1857 and in China and Japan 1859-1864; curator of the St. Petersburg herbaria (Bot. Gard. and Academy).
**Abbreviated name**: *Maxim.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Maxim.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LE|LE]], duplicates see IH. 32 letters to S. O. Lindberg are at [[Collection H|H]]-UB.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 2(1): 772; Backer p. 359; Barnhart 2: 466; BJI 1: 39; BM 3: 1225; Bossert p. 258; Bret. p. 581, 1066; CSP 4: 304, 8: 361, 10: 752, 16: 1019; Herder p. 465; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Maxim."); IF p. 717; IH 1(ed.6): 361, 2: 517-518; Jackson p. 579 \[index\]; Kew 3: 632-633; Langman p. 489; Lenley p. 464; Morren ed. 2, p. 30, ed. 10, p. 95; MW p. 311-313, suppl. p. 223-224; NAF ser. 2.7: 42; NI 1317; PR 6011-6015; Rehder 5: 557; SBC p. 126 ("Maxim."); TL-1/376, 815-816; TL-2/1: 1814, 1844; TR 851-863; Urban-Berl. p. 307, 373; Zander ed. 10, p. 690, ed. 11, p. 787, 810.
- Anon., Bonplandia 8: 87. 1860 (travels), 9: 92, 164. 1862 (id.); Bot. Centralbl. 1/2: 448. 1880 (foreign member Linn. Soc.); Bot. Gaz. 16(5): 155. 1891; Bot. Jahrb. 14, Beibl. 30: 7. 1891; Bot. Not. 1892: 47 (b. 23 Nov 1827, d. 16 Feb 1891, both n.s.); J. Bot. 29: 96. 1891; Nat. Nov. 13: 116. 1891 (d. 16 Feb 1891); Österr. bot. Z. 9: 369. 1859 (to be appointed at St. Petersburg), 10: 128. 1860 (expl. Sungari, Ussuri), 11: 197. 1861 (travel report), 15: 25. 1865 (returned St. Petersburg), 21: 62. 1871 (appointed dir. bot. mus. St. Petersburg), 41: 152. 1891 (d.); Torreya 12: 90. 1912.
- Aschcrson, P. F. A., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 9: (11)-(15). 1891 (obit.).
- Asmous, V. C, Chron. bot. 11(2): 103. 1947 (Fontes hist. bot. ross.).
- Bourdeille de Montresor, Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou ser. 2. 7: 423. 1894.
- Beck, G., Bot. Centralbl. 33: 378. 1888, 34: 149. 1888 (pl. W).
- Candolle, A. P. de, Phytographie 432. 1880 (coll.).
- Coats, A. M., The plant hunters 58-59, 69, 75-76, 79. 1969.
- Hadfield, M., Pioneers in gardening 184-185. 1951.
- Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 109. 1970 (pl. E).
- Herder, F. von, Bot. Jahrb. 9: 430, 440-441. 1888 (itin.); Bot. Centralbl. 30: 138-147. 1887 (extensive review and partial republ. of M's "Sur les collections botaniques de la Mongolie... par des voyageurs Russes et conservées à St. Pétersbourg, Bull. Congr. bot. St. Pétersbourg 1884, p. 135-196), 45: 322-323. 1891 (obit., bibl.; died of pneumonia), 55: 261, 262, 266, 292, 293. 1893 (coll. at LE), 58: 391. 1894 (id.).
- Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 45 (pl. K).
- Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 470. 1864.
- Kusnezow, N. J., Bot. Centralbl. 68: 257, 258. 1896 (material also at Dorpat/Jurjew).
- Lipsky, Imperatorskiy St.-Petersburgskiy botanicheskiy sad za 200 let 3: 353-359. 1915.
- Lipschitz, S., Florae URSS fontes 219 \[index\]. 1975.
- McVaugh, R., Edward Palmer 61, 67. 1956.
- Miyabe, K., Trans. Sapporo nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 6-9. 1906 (portr.).
- Palibin, I., Acta Horti Univ. Jurjev. 2: 119-126 1901 (portr., bibl.).
- Regel, E., Gartenflora 40: 147-151. 1891.
- Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 513. 1977.
- Schofield, E. K., Brittonia 30: 404. 1978 (pl. NY).
- Shchebenkov, Bot. Zh. 54(5): 190-791. 1969 (Japanese period).
- Shetler, S. G., The Komarov bot. Inst. 230 \[index\]. 1967.
- Stafleu, F. A., Wentia 16: 45. 1966; Regn. veg. 71: 337. 1970.
- Stapf, O., Nature 43(no. 145). 1891; J. Bot. 29: 118-119. 1891.
- Wilson, E. H., Plant hunting 2: 253. 1927.
- Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 174-175. 1903, 3(3): lxxxi, 188, *pl. 82.* 1905 (portr. and list of other portr. at SBT).
- Wulff, E. V., Intr. hist. plant geogr. 21, 23. 1943.
#### Handwriting
K. SV. Vet.-Akad. Handl. ser. 3. 5(1): 7. 1927; Hultén, E., Fl. Kamtchatka 1: 7. 1927; Lipschitz, S. & I. T. Vasilczenko, Herb. centr. USSR 112. 1968; Candollea 31: 359-360. 1976.
#### Eponymy
*Maximowasia* O. Kuntze (1891); *Maximowiczia* Ruprecht (1856); *Maximowiczia *Cogniaux (1881).
### Publications
##### n.5724. Primitiae florae amurensis
**Title**
*Primitiae florae amurensis*. Versuch einer Flora des Amur-Landes von Carl Joh. Maximowicz, Reisenden des kaiserlichen botanischen Gartens zu St. Petersburg. Mit 10 Tafeln und einer Karte... St. Petersburg (Buchdruckerei der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1859. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Prim. fl. amur.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1859 (p. 504 printer's date Feb 1859; KNAW rd.Jul-Dec 1860), p. \[1\]-504, *pl. 1-10* (uncol. liths.), 1 map. *Copies*: G, L, MO, NY, US, USDA. – Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Petersburg divers sav., vol. 9. 1859.
*Facsimile ed*.: announced but not yet published by Koeltz/Asher (1974).
*Ref*.: Ruprecht, F. J., Beitr. Pflanzenk. russ. Reich. 11: \[ii-iv\], \[45\]-89. Nov 1859 ("Bericht").
- Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 309-312, post Jul 1859.
##### n.5725. Diagnoses plantarum novarum japoniae et mandshuriae
**Title**
*Diagnoses plantarum novarum japoniae et mandshuriae* scripsit C. J. Maximowicz. Decas i-x \[xi-xx\]. Seorsim ex Mélanges biologiques vol. vi-viii \[viii-xi\], quae reimpressae ex Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, vol. x, xii, xv-xvii. \[xvii-xx.xxii\]. Petropoli \[St. Pétersburg\] (Typis imperialis Academiae scientiarum...) 1866-1871 \[1872-1876\]. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Diagn. pl. nov. jap.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Two volumes (with separate title-pages) of reprints of papers published in the two series mentioned in the title. Most copies do not have the 2 special volume t.p.'s and consist of the reprints. The title of the decades as published in the journals is "*Diagnoses breves plantarum*..." *Copies*: G(with t.p.'s \[i-iii\]), H, M, MO(t.p.'s), NY, US, USDA; IDC 6198.– See MW p. 312, J. japan. bot. 13: 310-502. 1937 and Fl. males. Bull. 17: 908. 1962.
|decas |publ. in Bulletin |idem in Mélanges |dates|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |10: 485-490 |6: 19-26 |8 Sep 1866|
|2 |11: 429-432 |6: 200-205 |28 Apr 1867|
|3 |11: 433-439 |6: 206-214 |31 Mai 1867|
|4-5 |12: 60-73 |6: 258-276 |26 Jun 1867|
|6 |12: 225-231 |6: 367-376 |13 Nov 1867|
|7 |15: 225-232 |7: 332-342 |2 Jun 1870|
|8 |15: 373-381 |7: 553-564 |11 Nov 1870|
|9 |16: 212-226 |8: 1-21 |15 Mai 1871|
|10 |17: 142-180 |8: 367-421 |6 Feb 1872|
|11 |17: 417-456 |8: 506-562 |22 Jul 1872|
|12 |18: 35-72 |8: 597-650 |11 Sep 1872|
|13(1 tab) |18: 275-296 |9: 1-30 |10 Feb 1873|
|14 |18: 371-402 |9: 31-76 |12 Mai 1873|
|15 |19: 158-186 |9: 148-188 |30 Nov 1873|
|16 |19: 247-287 |9: 213-270 |10 Jan 1874|
|17-18 |19: 475-540 |9: 281-374 |20 Jun 1874|
|19 |20: 430-472 |9: 393-452 |4 Mar 1875|
|20 (1 tab) |22: 209-264 |9: 581-660 |1 Sep 1876|
*Facsimile ed*.: 1928, Tokyo (Herbarium Hayakawa), repaginated but also with orig. pagination: 1: \[i-vii\], 1-154. (dec. 1-10). *Copy*: US. – *2*: not issued (?).
##### n.5726. Rhamneae orientali-asiaticae
**Title**
*Rhamneae orientali-asiaticae*... St. Petersburg (Commissionaires de l'Académie impériale des sciences...) 1866. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Rhamn. orient.-asiat.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1866 (p. \[ii\], imprimatur Jun 1866; Bot. Zeit. 27 Dec 1867), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-20, *1 pl*. (uncol.). *Copies*: G, H, L, MO, NY, US, USDA. – Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg ser. 7, 10(11), 1866.
*Ref*.: Ktz., Bot. Zeit. 25: 424. 27 Dec 1867.
##### n.5727. Revisio Hydrangeearum Asiae orientalis
**Title**
*Revisio Hydrangeearum Asiae orientalis*... St. Pétersbourg. (Commissionnaires de l'Académie impériale des sciences à St. Pétersbourg, M. M. Eggers et Comp. et M. Schmilzdorff, à Riga, M. N. Kymmel, à Leipzig, M. Leopold Voss) 1867.
**Abbreviated title**: *Revis. Hydrang. Asiae orient.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1867 (read 15 Nov 1866; p. ii censor Feb 1867, p. 48: 9 Feb 1867 printing finished), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-48, pl. 1-3 (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: G, H, MO, NY(2), US, USDA. – Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Pétersburg ser. 7. 10(16). 1867.
##### n.5728. Rhododendreae Asiae orientalis
**Title**
*Rhododendreae Asiae orientalis*... St. Pétersbourg (Commissionnaires de l'Académie impériale des sciences...) 1870. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Rhododendr. As. orient.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Dec 1870 (t.p.; p. ii: Dec 1870; rd.Jun 1870; Bot. Zeit. 10 Mar 1871), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-53, *pl. 1-4* (uncol. liths. E. Berens). *Copies*: G, H, L, MO, NY, USDA. – Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Pétersburg ser. 7. 16(9). 1870.
*Nachtrag*: 16 Mai 1871, p. \[149\]-167. – Bull. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg 16: 401-413. 1871. *Copies repr*.: G, H, L. – The pagination is that of the publication in the *Mélanges* *biologiques* 8, 1871, dated 4/16 Mai 1871 (inf. H. Sleumer).
*Ref*.: R., Bot. Zeit. 29: 158-160. 10 Mar 1871.
##### n.5729. Synopsis generis Lespedezae
**Title**
*Synopsis generis Lespedezae*, Michaux Auctore C. I. Maximowicz. Festo semisaeculari horti imperialis botanici petropolitanae, die 22 Martii 1873 celebrato, praesentata \[St. Petersbourg 1873\]. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Syn. Lespedez.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 22 Mar 1873, p. \[1\]-62. *Copies*: G, NY. – Also in Trudy St.-Petersb. Obsc. Estestvoisp. \[Acta horti Petrop.\] 2: 329-388. 1873.
##### n.5730. Diagnoses plantarum novarum asiaticarum
**Title**
*Diagnoses plantarum novarum asiaticarum* scripsit C. J. Maximowiz. Petropoli 1877-1893. 2 vols. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Diagn. pl. nov. asiat.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: A series of 8 papers of which nos. 1-7 were originally published in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg 23-32. 1877-1888 (reprinted in Mélanges biol. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg 9-12, 1877-1888). Part 8 was published separately. *Copies*: G (with general t.p. and t.p.'s for 2 vols. containing 1-5 and 6-8), H, M, MO, NY, US.
|Number |Publ. in Bulletin |idem in Mélanges |dates|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |23: 305-391 |9: 707-831 |8 Mar 1877|
|2 |24: 26-89 |10: \[43\]-134 |27 Sep 1877|
|3 |26: 420-542 |10: \[567\]-741 |28 Oct 1880|
|4(1 tab.) |27: 425-560 |11: \[155\]-350 |21 Jan 1882|
|5(3 tab.) |29: 51-228 |11: \[623\]-876 |10 Dec 1883|
|6 |31: 12-121 |12: \[415\]-572 |15 Apr 1886|
|7(4 tab.: 1, 2, 3 et 5) |32: 477-629 |12: 713-934 |22 Aug 1888|
|suppl.(3 tab.: 4, 6 et 7) | |12:935-938<br/>(Dec 1890)|
|8 |separately<br/>published |1-41 |Mai 1893|
*Ref*.: Herder, F. v., Bot. Centralbl. 57: 116-119. 1894 (on part 8).
##### n.5731. Ad florae Asiae orientalis cognitionem
**Title**
*Ad florae Asiae orientalis cognitionem* meliorem *fragmenta* contulit C.J. Maximowicz. \[Mosquae 1879\]. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. As. orient. fragm.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jan-Jun 1879 (Nat. Nov. Jul(2) 1879), p. \[1\]-73, \[74\]. *Copies*: G, H, MO.– Reprinted from Bull. Soc. Natural Moscou 54: 1-73. 1879.
##### n.5732. Adnotationes de Spiraeaceis
**Title**
C.J. Maximowicz *Adnotationes de Spiraeaceis*... Petropoli 1879. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Adnot. Spiraeac.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jul-Aug 1879 (p. xi: Mitte Juli 1879; Nat. Nov. Sep(1) 1878; Bot. Zeit. 10 Oct 1879; Flora 11 Nov 1879; inf. John W. Landon), p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-157. *Copies*: BR, G, H, MO. – Acta Horti bot. Petrop. 6: i-xii, 105-261. 1879. Translated extract: Masters, M. T., Gard. Chron. ser. 2. 12: 359-360, 425-426, 491. 1879.
##### n.5733. de Coriaria, Ilice et Monochasmate
**Title**
C. J. Maximowicz *de Coriaria, Ilice et Monochasmate*, hujusque generibus proxime affinibus Bungea et Cymbaria... St. Pétersbourg (Commissionnaires de l'Académie impériale des sciences...) 1881. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Coriaria*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1881 (p. ii: Nov 1881; Bot. Zeit 31 Mar 1882; Nat. Nov. Feb(2) 1882), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-70, *pl. 1-4* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: BR, G, L, MO, NY, US(2). – Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg ser. 7. 29(3). 1881.
*Ref*.: Herder, F. v., Bot. Centralbl. 11: 87-90. 1882 (extensive rev.).
- N.L., Bot. Zeit. 40: 221. 31 Mar 1882.
##### n.5734. Plantae chinenses Potamnianae
**Title**
*Plantae chinenses Potamnianae* nec non Piasezkianae... \[St. Petersburg 1889\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Dec 1889 (printing finished Nov 1889; ÖbZ Apr 1890), p. \[i\], \[1\]-112. *Copy*: G – Reprinted and to be cited from Acta Horti Petrop. 11: 1-112. 1889. – See Bot. Janrb. 12(Lit.): 35. 1890 for a review and a reprint of the key.
##### n.5735. Flora tangutica
**Title**
*Flora tangutica* sive enumeratio plantarum regionis Tangut (Amdo) provinciae Kansu nec non Tibetiae praesertim orientaliborealis atque Tsaidam. Ex collectiombus N. M. Przewalski atque G. N. Potanin... Fasciculus I. Thalamiflorae et Disciflorae... Petropoli \[St. Petersburg\] (Typis Aeademiae imperialis scientiarum petropohtanae...) 1889. Qu. †.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. tangut.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1889 (Nat. Nov. Mar(1) 1890; ÖbZ Oct 1890; Bot. Centralbl. 20 Feb 1890; Library of Congress rd. 22 Dec 1890), p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-110, \[1-4\], *pl. 1-31. Copies*: US, USDA. – Volume 1 of "*Historia naturalis itinernm N. M. Przewalskii* per Asiam centralem, ... pars botanica". (second t.p.). Extensive reviews in Bot. Jahrb. 12(Lit.): 6-8. 1890, Bot. Centralbl. 48: 351-358. 1891. For vol. 2(1) see next entry. For further details see MW p. 313.
##### n.5736. Enumeratio plantarum
**Title**
*Enumeratio plantarum* hucusque *in Mongolia* nec non adjacente parte Turkestaniae sinensis *lectarum*... Fasciculus I. Thalamiflorae et disciflorae... Petropoli \[St. Petersburg\] (Typis Aeademiae imperialis seientiarum petropohtanae...) 1889. Oct. †.
**Abbreviated title**: *Enum. pl. Mongolia*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1889 (ÖbZ Oct 1890; Bot. Centralbl. 20 Feb 1890; library of Congress rd. 22 Dec 1890; Nat. Nov. Mai(2) 1890), p. \[ii-iii\], \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-138, \[1, err.\], \[1-7, index\], *pl. 1-14* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: H, US. – Volume 2 of "*Historia naturalis itinerum N. M. Przewalskii* per Asiam centralem... pars botanica." (second t.p.). See above, no. 5735..., for vol. 1, pars I. Both volumes remained incomplete.