> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 335](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066675) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11722-1) LSID 11722-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21612742) QID Q21612742 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Willis, Oliver Rivington (1815-1902), American school teacher and botanist; some time residing in New Jersey, later in the New York area, ultimately instructor in botany, physics, and chemistry in the New York Military Academy. **Abbreviated name**: *O.R. Willis* \[standard form in IPNI: *O.R.Willis*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]]. – Other material at [[Collection BCL|BCL]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection NHA|NHA]]; also at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (fide Day 1901). – *Letters* at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 501 (b. 8 Apr 1815, d. 27 Apr 1902); BL 1: 203, 324; Jackson p. 364; Lenley p. 472; Rehder 5: 924; Tucker 1: 748, 2: xl. #### Biofile - Anon., J. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 177. 1908 (herb. at NY); Torreya 2(5): 80. 1902 (d.). - Day, M., Rhodora 3: 69. 1901 (pl. Bates College). - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 21: 57. 1942. - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 105. 1955. #### Composite works Revised and edited Alphonso Wood, *The new American botanist and florist*... New York (American Book Co.) 1898. ### Publications ##### n.17.836. Compend of botany **Title** *Compend of botany*.... Freehold (printed for the author) 1854. **Abbreviated title**: *Comp. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1854 (p. \[iii\]: Jul 1854), p. \[i\]-xi, \[12\]-23. *Copy*: USDA. ##### n.17.837. Catalogue of plants **Title** *Catalogue of plants* growing without cultivation in the state of *New Jersey*, with a specific description of all the species of violet found therein. Directions for collecting, drying, labelling and preserving botanical specimens, and a description of suitable apparatus therefor. With suggestions to teachers prosecuting the study of botany. To which is added a directory of living botanists of North America and the West Indies... New York (J.W. Schermerhorn & Co.,...) 1874. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. New Jersey*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1874 (p. vi: Apr 1874; TBC Jun 1874), p. \[i\]-xxii, \[1\]-71. *Copies*: HH, NY, PH. – Title on cover: *Catalogus plantarum in Nova Caesarea repertarum*. *Revised ed*.: 1877 (p. \[ii\]: copyright; TBC Oct 1877; Bot. Gaz. Jan 1878), err. slip, map, p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-88. *Copies*: HH, NY, PH, USDA. – New York, Chicago and New Orleans (A.S. Barnes & Co.) s.d. – Also: *Catalogus plantarum in Nova Caesarea repertarum.* ##### n.17.838. Flora of Westchester County **Title** *Flora of Westchester County*,... New York (Roper & Burdge,...) \[1882\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1881, cover-t.p., p. \[771\]-825, \[826, err.\], 2 p. err. sheet between p. 774-775. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, PH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Robert Bolton, *The history... of the county of Westchester*... ed. 2. 1: 771-826. 1881. *Additions*: E.G. Britton, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 13: 6-7. 1887, E.H. Day, id. 13: 94-95. 1886, J.W. Martens Jr., id. 16: 123-124. 1889. *Reprints*: in further reprints of Bolton's History 1893 and 1905. ##### n.17.839. A practical flora **Title** *A practical flora* for schools and colleges... New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (American Book Company) \[1894\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pract. fl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1894 (copyright on p. \[ii\]; NY copy rd. 18 Mar 1895; Bot. Centralbl. 28 Aug 1894), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-349. *Copies*: FH, HH, NY, USDA.