> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 445](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189916) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8032-1) LSID 8032-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104661) QID Q104661 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Purpus, Carl \[Karl\] Albert (1851-1941), German botanical explorer of Mexico and the western United States (1897-1934). **Abbreviated name**: *Purpus* \[standard form in IPNI: *Purpus*\] #### Herbarium and types largest sets at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection HPH|HPH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection RSDR|RSDR]], [[Collection UC|UC]] and [[Collection US|US]]; further material in many herbaria. – Letters at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]], and SIA. #### Note P'S brother Joseph Anton Purpus (1860-1932) was gardener at St. Petersburg (1882-1888) and at Darmstadt (1888-1892). He accompanied his bother on various trips. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 412, 422; Barnhart 3: 116; CSP 17: 1049; Ewan ed. 1: 285-286, ed. 2: 179; Hortus 3: 1202 (C. Purpus); IH (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 340, 2: (in press); Langman p. 598-601 (bibl.); Lenley p. 337; MW p. 397; Rehder 5: 143, 694-695; Urban-Berl. p. 280, 386; Zander ed. 10, p. 704, ed. 11, p. 803. #### Biofile - Anon., Darmstädter Tageblatt 9 August 1927 (reprint, 1 p., NY) (on robbery and injury). - Brandegee, T.S., Plantae mexicanae purpusianae, in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 3: 377-396. 1909; 4: 85-95, 177-194, 269-281, 375-388. 1910-1913; 6: 51-77, 177-197, 363-375, 497-504. 1914-1919. 7: 325-331. 1920, 10: 181-188, 403-421. 1922-1924. - Diehl, C., Mitt. deut. dendrol. Ges. 45: xiii, xxiv-xxv. 1933 (obituary of J. A. Purpus with a note on his brother). - Ewan, J., Amer. Midl. Natural. 17: 439. 1936, Madroño 19: 32. 1967. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 121. 1970. - Knobloch, J.W., Plant coll. N. Mexico 55. 1979 (b. 26 Feb 1851, d. 17 Jan 1941). - Langman, I., Rev. Soc. mex. Hist. nat. 10: 334-336. 1949 (b. 26 Feb 1853 or 1851; d. 17 Jan 1941). - McVaugh, R., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 292. 1972. - Moran, R., Cact. Succ. J. Amer. 34(1): 8-12. 1962 (portr.). - Purpus, C.A., Mitt. deut. dendrol. Ges. 1899: 144-145 (journey La Sol. Mountains, Utah); Moeller's deut. Gart. Zeit. 29: 293-297, 350, 437-442, 493-494, 509-511, 518-519, 535-537, 541-543. 1914, 30: 24-26, 41-42, 46-47, 55-56. 1915 (account Mexican trip 1912). - Reveal, J., *in* A. Conquist e.a., Intermountain flora 1: 59. 1972. - Sánchez, M.S., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 51: i-ix, 1-36. 1969 (biogr., portr., detailed study of his Mexican collections and bibl. of studies on P and his colls.; preface by L. Constance; b. 26 Feb 1851). - Standley, P.C., Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 23: 48. 1920. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 146. 1936, 6: 331. 1941. - Ziegler, H., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 81: 564. 1970. #### Handwriting Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 51: 8. 1969. #### Eponymy *Purpusia* T.S. Brandegee (1899). ### Publications ##### n.8402. Die Kakteen der Grand Mesa in West-Colorado **Title** *Die Kakteen der Grand Mesa in West-Colorado*. Von C.A. Purpus in Delta (Verein. Staat. Nord.-Am. Colorado) \[Monatschrift für Kakteenkunde 3(4): 49-53. Apr 1893\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1893, as cited above; reproduced in facsimile in Kakteen und Orchideen-Rundschau 1977(3): 41-45. 15 Mai 1977.