> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 584](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190055) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8157-1) LSID 8157-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6164710) QID Q6164710 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rattan, Volney (1840-1915), American school teacher and botanist; in California from 1861, settling in Placerville; at Santa Cruz high school 1873-1876; at girl's high school San Francisco 1876-1889; at San José normal school 1889-1906; in retirement living at Berkeley. **Abbreviated name**: *Rattan* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rattan*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DS|DS]]; further material at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection JEPS|JEPS]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection RSA|RSA]], [[Collection US|US]] (p.p. orig.), [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 130 (b. 23 Mai 1840, d. 5 Mar 1915); BM 4: 1649; Bossert p. 325; CSP 12: 599; Hortus 3: 1569; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 240, 2: (in press); Jackson p. 362, 509; Kew 4: 409; ME 1: 38; NW p. 56; Rehder 1: 324; Tucker 1: 582. #### Biofile - Anon., Torreya 15: 60. 1915 (d.). - Brewer, W.H., *in* S. Watson, Bot. Calif. 2: 558, 559. 1880. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 44. 1969. - Jepson, W., Madroño 1: 168-170. 1926 (biogr., portr.). - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892, p. 215-216, 253, 276, 280, 300. 1944. - Thomas, J.H., Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 160. 1961 (herb. at DS specimens often lack data). ### Publications ##### n.8641. Analytical key to West Coast botany **Title** *Analytical key to West Coast botany*, containing descriptions of sixteen hundred species of flowering plants, growing west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Crests, from San Diego to Puget Sound... San Francisco (A.L. Bancroft and Company) 1887. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Anal. key West Coast bot.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Feb-Mar 1887 (p. 3: 22 Jan 1887; TBC Apr 1887; Nat. Nov. Mai 1887; Bot. Centralbl. 18 Mai 1887; Bot. Zeit. 28 Oct 1887), p. \[1\]-128. *Copies*: HH, NY(3). – Also included in his "*A popular California flora*, ed. 7, 1887. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1888, p. \[1\]-128. *Copies*: HH, MICH, NY, US. – Idem ed. 8, 1888, 1892, 1894. *Ed*. \[*2a*\]: 1896, p. \[1\]-128. *Copy*: NY. – Idem ed. 9, 1896. *Ed. 3*: Mar-Apr 1898 (p. 4: 8 Feb 1898; Nat. Nov. Jun(1) 1898), p. \[1\]-221. *Copies*: G, NY. – "West Coast botany, an analytical key to the flora of the Pacific Coast, in which are described over eighteen hundred species..." San Francisco (the Whitaker & Ray Co.). 1898. ##### n.8642. A popular California flora **Title** *A popular California flora*, or manual of botany for beginners. Containing descriptions of exogenous plants growing in Central California, and Westward to the Ocean... San Francisco (A.L. Bancroft and Company) 1879. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pop. Calif. fl.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Feb-Mar 1879 (p. \[3\]: Feb 1879; Nat. Nov. Mai(2) 1879), p. \[1\]-106, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: HH, ILL (inf. D.P. Rogers), NY. *Ed. 2*: 1880, (p. \[iii\]: Feb 1880), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-138, \[139, err.\]. *Copies*: HH, ILL, NY, US, USDA. – Second edition, revised and enlarged. San Francisco (id.) 1880. Oct. *Ed. 3*: 1882 (p. iv: Jan 1882), p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, \[15\]-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 89-138. *Copy*: NY. – Third edition, revised and enlarged. San Francisco (id.) 1882. Oct. *Ed. 4*: 1882 (p. iv: Jan 1882), p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, \[15\]-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 89-138. *Copy*: HH. *Ed*. 5: 1883, p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, 15-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 39-138. *Copy*: NY. – Fifth revised edition. San Francisco (id.) 1883. Oct. *Ed. 6*: 1885, p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, 15-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 89-138. *Copy*: USDA. – Sixth revised edition. San Francisco (id.) 1885. Oct. *Ed. 7*: 1887, p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, 15-20, 20a-b, 21-81, 88a-b, 89-106, \[1-12\]. *Copies*: HH, NY(2). – Seventh revised edition. San Francisco (The Bancroft Company) 1887. Oct. *Ed. 8*(*1*): Jun 1888 (NY copy rd. Jun 1888; J. Bot. Dec 1888; Bot. Zeit. 28 Dec 1888), p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, 15-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 89-106, \[1-12, glossary\]. *Copy*: NY. – Eighth revised edition. San Francisco (id.) 1888. *Ed. 8*(*2, 3*): 1892 and 1894, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, \[15\]-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 89-106, \[1-12\]. *Copies*: HH, MICH, NY(2), US. – Eighth revised edition. San Francisco (id.) 1892. Oct. – The second NY copy is dated 1892, rather than 1894, but otherwise identical. *Ed. 9*: 1896, p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-14, 14a-d, 15-20, 20a-b, 21-38, 38a-b, 39-88, 88a-b, 89-106, \[1-12, glossary\]. *Copy*: NY. – Ninth revised edition. San Francisco (The Whitaker & Ray Co.) 1896. Oct.