> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 56](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189489) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7334-1) LSID 7334-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18756662) QID Q18756662 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Parfitt, Edward (1820-1893), British gardener, entomologist, mycologist and lichenologist; gardener in Norfolk and from 1848-1860 in Exeter; librarian of the Devon and Exeter Institution 1861-1893. **Abbreviated name**: *Parfitt* \[standard form in IPNI: *Parfitt*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TOR|TOR]] (orig. herbarium and 12 vols. of 1530 unpublished drawings of Devon fungi); British lichens and letters at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 48; BB p. 236; BM 4: 1511; CSP 4: 756, 8: 561-562, 10: 989-990, 17: 704; Desmond p. 477-478; De Toni 1: xcvi, 4: xliv; DNB 43: 205; GR p. 408; IH 1 (ed. 7): 339, 2: (in press); Kew 4: 227; Krempelh. 1: 306; LS 19817. #### Biofile - Anon., Entom. mon. Mag. 29: 73. 1893 (b. 17 Oct 1820, d. 15 Jan 1893, "1892"); Leopoldina 29 (17/18): 159. Sep 1893 (d.); Zool. Anz. 16: 297. 1893 (d.). - Boase, G.C., Notes and Queries ser. 8. 4: 262-263. 1893 (contains text of a letter by Parfitt giving details about his life and work). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 31: 160. 1893. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 272. 1980. - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 24, 129-130, 198. 1977. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 71. 1957. - Martin, W.K. & G.T. Fraser, Fl. Devon 774-775. 1939.