> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 296](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189767) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/24914-1) LSID 24914-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5076245) QID Q5076245 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Plitt, Charles Christian (1869-1933), American lichenologist and bryologist; Ph.G. (pharmacy) Maryland College Pharmacy 1891; Dr. sci. 1921 Int. Acad. Sci., Baltimore; teacher at various public schools in Baltimore, later at Baltimore City College; ultimately professor of botany at the University of Maryland. **Abbreviated name**: *Plitt* \[standard form in IPNI: *Plitt*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]] (17.000); [[Collection US|US]] (flowering plants, ferns, lichens); other material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection PH|PH]], and in the private herbarium of Clyde Reed (material rd. from Maryland Academy of Sciences, incl. notebooks). – See under H.E. Hasse for *Lichenes exsiccati ex herb. Dr. H.E. Hasse relieti*, distributed by Plitt. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 92; Bossert p. 312 (b. 6 Mai 1869, d. 13 Oct 1933); Ewan ed. 2: 176; GR p. 194, cat. p. 69; Hawksworth p. 185; Hirsch p. 234; IH 1 (ed. 3): 24, (ed. 6): 363, 2: (in press); Kelly p. 177, 256; LS 37975, suppl. 21927-21935; SBC p. 129; TL-2/see Hasse, H.E.; Urban-Berl. p. 289. #### Biofile - Anon., Bryologist 37: 93-95. 1935 (portr., bibl.); Rev. bryol. lichénol. 34: 377. 1966 (Plitt lichen herbarium at US); Science ser. 2. 78: 378. 1933 (d.). - Boufford, D.E., Taxon 29: 676. 1980 (coll. at CM). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 95. 1969. - Fessenden, G.R. & A.R. Goldberg, Wild Flower 30(4): 81-90. 1954 (extracts from journal of C.C. Plitt; b. 6 Mai 1869, d. 13 Oct 1933; (portr.)), 31: 5-13, 35-39, 48, 53-59. 1955. - Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11: 16. 1979 (herb. at US). Stevenson, J.A., Taxon 4: 184. 1955 (herb. at BPI).