> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 597](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190068) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8179-1) LSID 8179-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3127757) QID Q3127757 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ravenel, Henry William (1814-1887), American botanist, graduated from South Carolina College 1832; planter at St. John's, S.C. 1832-1853; from 1853-1887 at Aiken, S.C., LL.D. Univ. N. Carolina 1886. **Abbreviated name**: *Ravenel* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ravenel*\] #### Herbarium and types Cryptogams: [[Collection BM|BM]] (14.450 specim.), phanerogams: [[Collection CHARL|CHARL]]. – Other material in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection QK|QK]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. Original set of Texas 1869 coll. at [[Collection BPI|BPI]]. *Exsiccatae*: (1) *Fungi caroliniani*, 5 cent. 1852-1860, sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]], [[Collection STR|STR]]. (See Stevenson 1971 for extensive details and bibl.). - (2) *Fungi americani*, with Mordecai Cubiti Cooke (1825-1914), fasc. 1-8, 1878-1882. Sets at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. (See Stevenson (1971) for extensive details and bibl.). Letters e.g. at [[Collection FH|FH]] and [[Collection NY|NY]].Other archival material at [[Collection FH|FH]] and SIA. For private journal see A.R. Childs (1947). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 132 (b. 19 Mai 1814, d. 17 Jul 1887); BL 2: 213, 314; Bossert p. 325; Clokie p. 230; CSP 5: 110, 8: 707, 12: 600, 18: 67; DAB 8: 396-397 (by A.R. Childs); GR p. 195; Hawksworth p. 185; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 240; Kew 4: 415; Lenley p. 340, 467; LS 21806-21809a; ME 1: 223, 3: 643; Morren ed. 2, p. 55, ed. 10, p. 130; Rehder 5: 705; SBC p. 130; Stevenson p. 1255; TL-2/465, see J.E. Duby; Tucker 1: 583; Urban-Berl. p. 272. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. 35: 263. 1888; Bot. Centralbl. 32: 32. 1887; Bot. Not. 1888: 46 (d.); Bryologist 82(3): 511. 1979 (portr.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 34 (bibl.): 143. 1887 (d.); Bull. Torrey bot. Club 14(9): 197-198. 1887 (d.); Grevillea 16: 22. 1887 (d.); Mycologia 3(3): 161. 1911 (Ravenel herbarium to be revised by E.R. Memminger); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 10: 47. 1909 (biogr., portr.); Nat. Nov. 9: 232. 1887; Nature 35: 374. 1887 (d.); Recorder, Aiken, S.C. 10 July 1887, repr. J. Mycol. 3(9): 106-107. 1887; The News and Courier (S. Carolina) 20 July 1887 (obit.). - Barnhart, J.H., *in* F.W. Pennell, Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 617. 1935 (coll.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 442. 1880. - Childs, A.R., The private journal of Henry William Ravenel 1859-1887. Columbia, S. Carolina 1947, 428 p. (portr.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 92. 1969. - Farlow, W.G., Bot. Gaz. 12(8): 194-197. 1887 (obit., bibl.); Ann. Bot. 1: 411. 1888 (bibl.). - Gee, W., Bull. Univ. S. Carolina 72: 38-41. 1918 (biogr., bibl.). - Geiser, S.W., Natural. Frontier 241-242, 280. 1948 (1869 mission); Field & Labor. 4(2): 52. 1936, 27: 180. 1959 (Texas mission 1869). - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 122. 1970 (material in M.C. Cooke herb. mycol.). - Hesler, L.R., Biogr. sketches N. Amer. mycol., mss. 1975. - Hitchcock, A.S. & A. Chase, Man. grass. U.S. 988. 1951. (*Panicum ravenelii*). - Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 207-209. 1961. - Lamson-Scribner, F., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 20: 324-325. 1893. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 176. 1904 (herb. purchased 1891). - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found bot. Florida 28. 1945. - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 80. 1955. - Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 177, 184, 188, 224. 1940; John Torrey 228, 263. 1942. - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 1: 12. 1977, ed. 2: 12, 14, 20, 33. 1981. - Sargent, C.S., Silva 8: 160. 1895. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 384. 1971 (coll.). - Smith, E., Bartonia 28: 10, 11. 1957. - Steere, W.C., Bot. Rev. 43: 293. 1977. - Stevens, N.E., Sci. Mon. 1919 (Aug): 157-166 (on R. and the civil war); Isis (ed. G. Sarton) 18(1): 133-149. 1932 (mycol. work). - Stevenson, J.A., Taxon 4(8): 181. 1935 (Texas 1869 fungi at BPI). - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 109. 1970. - Underwood, L.P., J. New York Bot. Gard. 1(3): 40. 1900, 3(27): 57. 1902 (Ravenel material at NY). - Zander, R.H., Bryologist 82: 511. 1979 (portr.). #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl*. 7. 1957. #### Eponymy *Neoravenelia* W.H. Long (1903); *Pleoravenelia* W.H. Long (1903); *Ravenella* MJ. Berkeley (1853); *Ravenelula* Spegazzini (1881). ### Publications ##### n.8682. Description of a new Baptisia **Title** *Description of a new Baptisia* found near Aiken, So. Ca.... read before the Elliott Society of Natural History, January 18th, 1856. \[Proc. Elliott Soc. 1: 38-39. 1859). **Abbreviated title**: *Descr. Baptisia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1859 (or preprinted?), p. \[1\]-2, *1 pl. Copies*: HH, LC, PH. – Reprinted or preprinted from Proc. Elliott Soc. nat. Hist. 1: 38-39. 1859 ##### n.8683. Notice of some new and rare phanerogamous plants found in this state **Title** *Notice of some new and rare phanerogamous plants found in this state*... \[Proc. Elliott Soc. 1: 50-54. 1859\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1859, p. \[1\]-4. *Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Elliott Soc. 1: 51-54. 1859. ##### n.8684. A list of the more common native and naturalized plants of South Carolina **Title** *A list of the more common native and naturalized plants of South Carolina*... *in* South Carolina. Resources and population. Institution and industries, Charleston S.C. (Walker, Evans & Cogswell,...) 1883. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1883, p. \[312\]-359, to be cited from *South Carolina* 1883. *Copies* reprint: HH, NY.