> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 401](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189872) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/25097-1) LSID 25097-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3009492) QID Q3009492 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey (1838-1911), American botanist and collector (and Quaker); plant breeder at his farm at East Charlotte, Vt. until 1880; collected extensively especially in the Pacific States and in Mexico between 1880 and 1909; from 1902 at the University of Vermont as keeper of the herbarium. **Abbreviated name**: *Pringle* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pringle*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection VT|VT]]; duplicates in numerous herbaria (e.g. [[Collection ASU|ASU]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection EMC|EMC]], [[Collection FCME|FCME]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MEXU|MEXU]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MTMG|MTMG]], [[Collection MU|MU]], [[Collection NMC|NMC]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection PRC|PRC]], [[Collection RM|RM]], [[Collection SMU|SMU]], [[Collection TAES|TAES]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection UTD|UTD]], [[Collection VT|VT]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection YU|YU]], [[Collection Z|Z]]), for further details see IH. *Exsiccatae*: *Mexican fungi*, decas 1, nos. 1-10. 1 Sep 1896 (see Stevenson 1971), e.g. at [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]] and [[Collection FH|FH]]. Pringle's plants were distributed under various series names such as *Flora of the Pacific Slope* and *Plantae mexicanae, Musci mexicani, Plantae Arizonae, Plantae Texanae*. A special pamphlet, p. \[1-5\], copy at [[Collection USDA|USDA]], was issued in 1881 giving corrected names of plants "in his several distributions" of *Flora of the Pacific Slope*. – Letters at [[Collection G|G]],NW, [[Collection PH|PH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 111 (b. 6 Mai 1838, d. 25 Mai 1911); Bossert p. 318; CSP 12: 590, 17: 1019; Ewan ed. 1: 80, 129; IH (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 340; 2: (in press); Kew 4: 366; Lenley p. 335-336; LS 21378-21379; Morren ed. 10, p. 131; NW p. 55 (letters to Piper and Suksdorf); Pennell p. 617; PH 164, 444, 906; Rehder 5: 690; Stevenson p. 1254; Tucker 1: 570; Urban-Berl. p. 310, 385. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 37: 382. 1889 (returned from N. Mexico), 44: 77. 1890 (coll. Mexico); Bot. Not. 1911: 190 (d. 15 Mai 1827, err.); Hedwigia 41: (207). 1902 (keeper VT), 42: (224). 1903 (to Cuba), 52: (83). 1912 (d.); Nat. Nov. 24: 479. 1902 (curator herb. VT); Österr. bot. Z. 40: 354. 1890, 41: 80. 1891; Torreya 2: 94. 1902 (keeper herb. VT), 2: 126. 1902 (fund purchase Pringle herb.), 11: 144. 1911 (b. 15 Mai 1911, err.). - Arthur, J.C., Bot. Gaz. 22: 423. 1896 (on P's Mexican fungi). - Benedict, G.G., Burlington Free Press 2 Jun 1902 (herb. to VT). - Bonner, C.E.B., Mus. Genève 130: 19. 1972 (on Pringle material distributed under the name "Herrera"). - Brainerd, E., Rhodora 13: 225-232. 1911 (portr., distr. 500.000 specimens of some 20.000 species; d. 25 Mai 1911). - Burns, G.P., Science ser. 2. 34: 750-751. 1911 (obit.). - Cadbury, H.J., ed., The civil war diary of Cyrus Pringle, Pendle Hill Pamphlet no. 122, Lebanon, Pa., 1962, 39 p. - Cardot, J., Rev. bryol. 36: 67. 1909. - Charette, L.A., Univ. Vermont Alumni Mag. 42: 4-7. 1962 (portr.; account of herbarium and collections). - Davis, H.B., Life and work of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, Burlington, May 1936, iii, 756 p. (portr., biography; full details on coll., itin., supplement, 14 p., Burlington, Oct 1937). - Day, M., Rhodora 3: 261. 1901 (herb.). - Eggleston, W.W., Bull. Vermont bot. Club 7: 8-11. 1912 (reminiscences). - Evans, P.D., Dict. Amer. biogr. 15: 236-237. 1935 (biogr., b. 6 Mai 1838, d. 25 Mai 1911; further biogr. refs.). - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 120. 1970. - Hitchcock, A.S. & A. Chase, Man. Grass. U.S. 988. 1951 (epon.). - Jaeger, E.C., Source-book biol. names ed. 3. 319. 1966. - Jones, L.R., Rhodora 4: 171-174. 1902 (on Pringle herb. at VT). - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 3: 72. 1897 (returned home from Mexico with 20.000 specimens), 18: 80. 1912 (d.). - Knobloch, I.W., Plant coll. N. Mexico 55. 1979. - McVaugh, R., Edward Palmer 427 \[index\]. 1956; Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 290-292. 1972 (coll. in Jalisco). - Meyer, F.G. & S. Elsasser, Taxon 22: 386. 1973 (pl. at NA). - Moldenke, H.N., List coll. Verbenac. Suppl. 20. 1947 (coll.). - Orcutt, C.R., Science ser. 2. 34: 176. 1911. - Pease, A.S., Fl. N. New Hampshire 34, 36. 1964. - Pringle, C.G., Herbarium 8: 57-58. 1909 (on his Mexican coll.). - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 80. 1955. - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892, p. 335 \[index\]. 1944. - Rugg, H.G., Amer. Fern J. 1(5): 114-115. 1911. - Seymour, F.C., Rhodora 75: 292-303. 1973 (Pringle herbarium VT). - Stevenson, J., Beih. Nova Hedw. 36: 272-273. 1971. - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 379 \[index\]. 1970. - Thomas, J.H., Huntia 3: 18. 1969. - Tracy, J.E., New England Mag. ser. 2. 41: 86-91. Sep 1909 (portr.; on P's hybridization of cereals). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 160. 1935, 3: 321, 374. 1937, 4: 185, 565. 1938, 5: 307. 1939, 6: 238. 1941, 7: 39. 1943. - Wiggins, I.L., Fl. Baja Calif. 42. 1980. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg.3(3): 200. *pl. 149.* 1905 (portr.). #### Eponymy *Neopringlea* S. Watson (1891); *Pringlella* Cardot (1909); *Pringleochloa* Scribner (1896); *Pringleophytum* A. Gray (1885). *Note*: *Pringleella* V.F. Brotherus (1924) almost certainly belongs here. *Pringlea* T. Anderson ex J.D. Hooker (1845) was named for Sir John Pringle (1707-1782) who wrote a book on scurvy. ### Publications ##### n.8325. Musci mexicani first century **Title** *Musci mexicani first century*... Leipzig (Theodor Oswald Weigel...) \[1896\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1896 (fide Nat. Nov. Feb(2) 1897), list of names of musci included in the first century for which Weigel had the European distribution rights. Leaflet, I p. *Copies*: BR, MO. – Pringle himself also issued 1 p. pamphlets announcing the distribution and contents of the first as well as the second century. Copies of these undated pamphlets are at MO. ##### n.8326. Plantae mexicanae **Title** C.G. Pringle, *Plantae mexicanae*... \[Charlotte, Vermont\] 1887-1906. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. mexic.* **Notes** *Publ*.: A series of pamphlets giving the contents of the (almost) annual distribution of Mexican plants. We have seen the following (*copies*: MO): *1887*: p. \[1\]-3. *1889*: p. \[1-3\]. *1890*: p. \[1\]-3. *1891*: p. \[1\]-3. *1892*: p. \[1\]-4. *1893*: p.\[1-4\]. *1894*: p. \[1-4\]. *1895*: p. \[1-4\]. *1896*: p. \[1-4\]. *1897*: p.\[1-3\]. *1898*: p. \[1-3\]. *1899*: p. \[1-4\]. *1900*: p. \[1-3\]. *1901/1902*: p. \[1-4\]. *1903/1904*: p.\[1-4\]. *1905/1906*: p. \[1-4\].