> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 799](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355886) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/24233-1) LSID 24233-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568858) QID Q3568858 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Oakes, William (1799-1848), American lawyer and botanist; Harvard College BA 1820; practicing law at Ipswich, Mass. 1824-1827; from then on devoting himself to natural history. **Abbreviated name**: *Oakes* \[standard form in IPNI: *Oakes*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BSN|BSN]], now at [[Collection GH|GH]] (most complete set), duplicates in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection U|U]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 18; Bossert p. 291; Clokie p. 218; CSP 4: 655; GR p. 194; Hawksworth p. 185; Hortus 3: 1201 ("Oakes"); IH 2: (in press); Kew 4: 172; Lenley p. 465; ME 1: 216, 3: 632; Pennell p. 615; PH 364; PR (alph.); Rehder 5: 629; SBC p. 128; TL-2/see E. M. Durand; Tucker 1: 525; Urban-Berl. p. 379; Zander ed. 10, p. 697, ed. 11, p. 795. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 7: 272. 1849; Flora 32: 223. 1849 (d.); Hovey's Mag. Hort. 14: 430-431. 1848 (d. 31 Jul 1848, by drowning). - Barnhart, J. H., Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16(3); 297. 1921. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 437. 1880 (coll.). - Day, M., Rhodora 3: 71, 259. 1901 (plants left by him were made into sets and sold; most complete set to BSN). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 92, 115. 1969. - Graustein, J. E., Thomas Nuttall 474 \[index\]. 1967. - Gray, A., Amer.J. Sci. ser. 2. 7: 138-142. 1849, 8: 293. 1849 (sets of New England plants for sale). - Hovey, C. M., ed., Mag. Hort. Bot., Boston, 14: 430-431. 1848 (obit., bibl.). - Robinson, J., Bull. Essex Inst. 12: 90-91. 1880 (biogr. not.). - Rodgers, A. D., William Starling Sullivant 136, 157, 161, 173, 190, 224, 226-227. 1940, John Torrey 88, 109, 208, 268. 1942. - Tuckerman, E., London J. Bot. 1: 445. 1842. - Wheatland, H., Proc. Essex Inst. 2: 26. 1862 (b. 1 Jul 1799, d. 31 Jul 1848). #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl. 6.* 1967. #### Eponymy *Oakesia* Tuckerman (1842); *Oakesia* S. Watson (1879); *Oakesiella* J. K. Small (1903). ### Publications ##### n.6988. Notice of some rare plants of New England **Title** *Notice of some rare plants of New England*, with descriptions of some new species. By William Oakes, Ipswich, Mass. \[C. M. Hovey, ed., Mag. Hort. Bot., Boston vol. 7, no. 5. Mai 1841\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1841 (in journal), p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Mag. Hort. Bot., Boston 7(5): 178-186. 1841. ##### n.6989. Catalogue of Vermont plants **Title** *Catalogue of Vermont plants*... as published in Thompson's history of Vermont. \[Burlington 1842\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. Vermont pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1842, p. \[1\]-35, \[36\]. *Copies*: NY, USDA. – Reprinted from Zadock Thompson, Natural history of Vermont, Burlington 1842 (n.v.), reissue ib. 1853, map, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-224; \[1\]-63, \[64-66, app.\]. *Copy*: US. – Botany on p. 173-221.