> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 601](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355688) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6698-1) LSID 6698-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5077291) QID Q5077291 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Moss, Charles Edward (1870-1930), British botanist; studied at Leeds 1895-1900 (B. Sc. 1898); high school teacher at Bruton and Manchester; from 1907-1914 curator of the Cambridge Herbarium (CGE); served in the O.T.C. 1914-1917; from 1917 professor of botany at Witwatersrand University. **Abbreviated name**: *Moss* \[standard form in IPNI: *Moss*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection J|J]] (S. Afr. coll.); [[Collection PRE|PRE]] (Zambesi mat.); [[Collection CGE|CGE]] (British). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 657; Barnhart 2: 519; BJI 2: 120; BL 2: 222, 276, 693; BM 3: 1360, 7: 873; Desmond p. 453; Hirsch p. 205; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Moss"); IH 1 (ed. 6): 362, 2: 563; Kew 4: 69; NI 1415; Tucker 1: 501, 778; Urban-Berl. p. 377. A. G. T., Nature 127: 98-99. 1931; J. Ecology 19: 209-214. 1931 (portr.). - Anon., Österr. bot. Z. 58: 223. 1908 (curator CGE), 62(Lit.): 98. 1912 (announcement Cambr. Brit, fl.); Proc. Linn. Soc. 143: 193-196. 1931; The Times 4 Dec 1930. - Bullock, A. A., Bibl. S. Afr. Bot. 78. 1978. - Druce, G. C., Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. CI. 9: 326-327. 1931. - Hawksworth, D. L. & M. R. D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isles 1568-1975, p. 124. 1977. - Kent, D. H., Brit. Herb. 70, 1957 (Brit. herb. at CGE, incl. types). - Levyns, M. R. B., Insnar'd with flowers 31, 55. 1977. - Phillips. E. P., S. Afr. J. Sci. 27: 63, 64. 1930. - Ramsbottom, J., The Times 9 Dec 1930 supplementary to anon. note of 4 Dec 1930 which emanated apparently from Kew); J. Bot. 69: 20-23. 1931; Proc. Linn. Soc. London 143: 193-196. 1931 (obit.; b. 7 Feb 1870 fide family, Moss himself gave his year of birth as 1872; d. 11 Nov 1930). - Rendle, A. G., J. Bot. 68: 386. 1930. #### Composite works editor *Halifax Naturalist*4-5, 1899-1901. #### Eponymy The Moss herbarium, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, S. Africa (J). – The derivation of *Mossia*N. E. Brown (1930) could not be established. ### Publications ##### n.6357. Vegetation of the Peak district... **Title** *Vegetation of the Peak district...*Cambridge (at the University Press) 1913. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Veg. Peak distr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Mar 1913 (p. vi: Dec 1912; ÖbZ Apr 1913 (also Dec 1913); Nat. Nov. Jul(2) 1913), p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-235, *36 pl. Copies*: FI, MO. *Ref*.: Ramsbottom, J., J. Bot. 51: 226-228. 1913. - Diels, L., Bot. Jahrb. 51 (Lit.): 6-7. 1913. - Smith, W. G., Bot. Centralbl. 123: 632-634. 9 Dec 1913. ##### n.6358. The Cambridge British flora **Title** *The Cambridge British flora*by C. E. Moss... assisted by specialists in certain genera illustrated from drawings by E. W. Hunnybun... Cambridge (at the University Press), 1914-1920, 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Cambr. Brit.fl.* **Notes** *Editor*vol. 3: Alfred James Wilmott (1888-1950). *Artist*: Edward Walter Hunnybun (1848-1918). *Vol. 1*: never published. *Vol. 2, text*: Mar 1914 (p. xx: 24 Dec 1913; Nat. Nov. Apr(1) 1914, Mai(2) 1914; ÖbZ Mar 1914), portr. Ray, p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-206, maps 1-48, – *plates*: Mar 1914, p. \[i\]-vii, *pl. 1-206.* *Vol. 3*: Jun 1920 (p. xvi: 27 Jan 1917; p. \[vii\]: 16 Jun 1919; J. Bot. Jul 1920; Nat. Nov. Aug 1920), *text*: p. \[iii\]-xvi, \[1\]-200, maps 1-73, *plates*: *1*920, p. \[i\]-vi, *pl. 1-191.* *Copies*: MO, NY, USDA. *Plates*: uncol. offset. – An announcement in J. Bot. (49: 119-120. 1911) stated that ten volumes were to be published and that Hunnybun had completed 1750 "beautiful pen-and-ink drawings." The first volume, which never appeared, was to have dealt with the families in the beginning of the Engler system. *Ref.: B*ritten, J., J. Bot. 52: 87, Mar, 131-136. Mai 1914 ("to the scientific botanist the book hardly appeals..."); 59: 24-27. 1921. - Krause, K., Bot. Jahrb. 52 (Lit.): 45-46. 1915 (follows Engler and Prantl!; "in jeder Beziehung ein 'standard work'...").