> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 525](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355612) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/23479-1) LSID 23479-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2918015) QID Q2918015 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mitten, William (1819-1906), British pharmaceutical chemist and bryologist at Hurstpierpont Sussex. **Abbreviated name**: *Mitt.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mitt.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]] (50.000; acquired for £400. =); for duplicates see IH. Field notes also at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 497; BB p. 217; BJI 1: 40; BL 2: 270, 692; BM 3: 1324, 7: 851; Bossert p. 269; Clokie p. 213; CSP 4: 416, 8: 412, 10: 823, 17: 280; Desmond p. 444; Frank 3(Anh.): 66; GR p. 377-378, cat. p. 68; Herder p. 231, 258, 261, 265; IH 1(ed. 6): 362, 2: 544-545; Jackson p. 249, 371, 385, 404, 581; Kew 4: 17; Lenley p. 294-295; LS 17962; Morren ed. 10, p. 75; MW p. 325; NAF ser. 2. 3: 39, 9: 124; PR 6299; Rehder 1: 401; SBC p. 127 ("Mitt."); TL-2/1: 2056, 2628, see Crueger, H.; Urban-Berl. p. 308. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1907: 20 (d.); Gard. Chron. 1907(1): 89 (herb, to NY); J. New York Bot. Garden 8: 28-32. 1907 (extensive descr. of Mitten herb., bought and rd. at NY 6 Dec 1906; M's will directed his daughter to offer the herb. in first instance to Mrs Britton), 19: 65. 1918 (M's lichens also at NY); Nat. Nov. 28: 553. 1906 (d. 27 Jul 1906); Torreya 6(8): 179. 1906, 6(12): 259-260. 1906. - Fleming, M. & R. C. Barneby, Garden J. 14: 146-147. 1964 (on M's herb.). - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 111. 1970 ("Bryo. Britain Herbarium..."). - Hemsley, W. B., J. Bot. 44: 329-332. 1906 (portr.); Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1906: 283-284. - Holmes, E. M., Proc. Linn. Soc, London 119: 49-54. 1907 (obit., bibl., b. 30 Nov 1919, d. 27 Jul 1906); S. E. Natural. 611: 412-414. *1 pl*. 1907. - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 46 (coll. K). - Kalkman, C. & P. Smith, eds., Blumea 25: 94. 1979. - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 13: 20. 1907 (d.). - Maiden, J. H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N. S. W. 42: 77. 1908. - Mains, E. B., Univ. Mich., Encycl. Survey 1454. 1956 (paratypes MICH). - Merrill, E. D., Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 144: 137. 1937 (Polynes. bibl.); Contr. natl. Herb. U.S. 30(1): 214-215. 1947. - Nelson, E. C. Glasra 4: 56. 1980 (phan. DBN). - Nicholson, W. E., Bryologist 10: 1-5. 1907 (portr., bibl.). - Prince, C. R., Int. lichenol. Newsletter 10(1): 11. 1977 (lichens also at NY). - Rodgers, A. D., William Starling Sullivant 222, 244, 262, 280, 283, 296. 1940. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80(3): 502-521. 1977. - Small, J. K., J. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 178. 1908 (herb.). - Schuster, R. M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 78-79. 1966 (bibl.). - Steere, W. C., Bot. Rev. 43: 340. 1977. - Stout, W., J. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 82. 1912 (bryolog. herb. at NY). - Synnott, D. M. Glasra 4: 26. 1980 (bryoph. DBN). - T, L. C., Bot. Zeit. 20: 70-71. 1864. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 108. 1898. - Wolley-Dod, A. H., Fl. Sussex xliii. 1970. #### Composite works - (1) Seemann, B., *Bot. Herald, Hepaticae of Panama*, p. 245-246. late 1854. - (2) Godman, F. du C., *Nat. hist. Azores*, Bryophyta, p. 288-328, see TL-2/2056. - (3) Seemann, B., *Fl. vit., Jungermanniae* and *Marchantiae*, 378-419, *pl. 97-98.* 1871. - (4) Nares, G. S., *Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea* during 1875-1876, ed. 2, vol. 2, app. no. 14. 1878, p. 313-319. (Mosses and Jungermanniaceae of the arctic regions). - (5) Hooker, J. D., *Fl. nov. zeland., Hepaticae* 2: 125-160. 11 Jul 1854, 161-172, *pl. 94-104.* 9 Feb 1855, *Fl. Tasm., Hepaticae* 2: 221-240, *pl*. *178-180*. 15 Feb 1859, 241-244. 16 Aug 1859. - (6) Hooker, J. D., *Handb. New Zealand Fl., Hepaticae* 497-549. 1867. #### Eponymy *Mittenia* Lindberg (1863); *Mittenia* Gottsche (1864); *Mittenothamnium* Hennings (1902, *nom. cons.*); *Mitthyridium* H. E. Robinson (1975). ### Publications ##### n.6135. Musci Indiae orientalis **Title** *Musci Indiae orientalis*; enumeration of the mosses of the East Indies... London (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts and Williams and Norgate) 1859. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Muse. Ind. orient.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 21 Feb 1859, as J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. Suppl. 1: \[i-iii\], 1-171, \[1, notice\]. Feb 1859. *Copies*: H, MO, MO-Steere; IDC 999; for *Hepat. Ind. orient.* see J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 5: 89-128. 1861. ##### n.6136. Descriptions of some new species of musci from New Zealand **Title** *Descriptions of some new species of musci from New Zealand*, &c. by William Mitten, Esq. A. L. S. \[from the Journal of the Proc. of the Linnean Society for September 1859\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1860 p. \[1\]-38. *Copy*: H. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 64-100. 1860. ##### n.6137. Musci austro-americani **Title** *Musci austro-americani*. Enumeratio muscorum omnium austro-americanorum auctori hucusque cognitorum... \[London (Williams and Norgate) 1869\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Musc. austr.-amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1869, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-659. *Copies*: FI, H, MO, MO-Steere; IDG 439. – Also published as J. Linn. Soc, London, 12: 1-659. 1869. ##### n.6138. Musci **Title** *Musci*, in Transit of Venus Expeditions. Enumeration of plants hitherto collected in Kerguelen Island,... Phil. Trans. 168 (extra vol.): 24-45. 1879. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: as reprint: 1879, p. 1-22. *Copies*: U(2). – To be cited from journal. ##### n.6139. Australian mosses **Title** *Australian mosses*, enumerated by William Mitten, Esq. \[Melbourne (Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, printers) 1882\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Austral, moss.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1882 (Nat. Nov. Dec(1) 1882; Bot. Zeit. 24 Nov 1882), p. \[1\]-48. *Copies*: H, NY. – Preprinted from Trans. Proc. R. Soc. Victoria 9: 49-96. 1883. *Ref*.: N. L., Bot. Zeit. 40: 824. 24 Nov 1882.