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### Author
Petersen, Niels Frederick (1877-1940), Danish-born American botanist; grew up in Plainview, Nebraska; M.S. Univ. Nebraska 1911, instructor of botany at Baton Rouge 1909-1913; in Panama 1914; at Univ. of Chicago 1915-1916; at Nevada Experiment Station 1917-1920; from 1921 at Nebraska Experiment Station; later settling again at Plainview, Nebr.
**Abbreviated name**: *N Petersen* \[standard form in IPNI: *N.Petersen*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material from Panama at [[Collection G|G]] and [[Collection US|US]], from South Dakota, Nebraska and Florida at [[Collection NY|NY]], from Nevada at [[Collection NESH|NESH]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 74; BL 1: 195, 312; Bossert p. 307 (b. 22 Apr 1877; d. 28 Oct 1840); Hirsch p. 230; IH 2: (in press); Tucker 1: 551.
#### Biofile
- Dwyer, J.D., Taxon 22: 563. 1973 (Panama coll. in Pittier's herb. at G).
- Reifschneider, O., Biogr. Nevada Bot. 1844-1963, p. 104-105. 1964 (portr.).
### Publications
##### n.7765. Flora of Nebraska
**Title**
*Flora of Nebraska*. A list of the conifers and flowering plants of the state with keys for their determination... \[Lincoln, Nebraska (published by the author) 1912\]. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Nebraska*.
**Notes**
*Ed. 1*: 1912 (p. \[iii\]: Sep 1911, copyrighted 1912, TBC 9 Sep 1912; Nat. Nov. Oct(2) 1912), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-217. *Copies*: G, MO, NY, USDA.
*Ed. 2*: s.d. (PH rd. 11 Nov 1915), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-217. *Copies*: BR, PH. – "Second edition. Plainview, Nebraska published by the author".
*Ed. 3*: 1923 (p. \[iii\]: 1922), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-220. *Copies*: NY, US, USDA. – "Third edition" \[Lincoln, Nebr.\] (published by the author) \[s.d.\]. Oct.
*Ref*.: Stieber, M.T., Bull. Hunt Inst. bot. Docum. Fall/Winter 1980: 4-5 (on *Fl.
- Nebraska*).