> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 795](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190266) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8400-1) LSID 8400-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19001581) QID Q19001581 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rilstone, Francis (1881-1953), British (Cornish) botanist; headmaster Polperro primary school (batologist); educated at Westminster College, London; teacher at Truro, later at Polperro, headmaster of the County Primary School at Polperro, Cornwall, 1914-1934; in retirement at Perranzabuloe 1934-1953. **Abbreviated name**: *Rilstone* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rilstone*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (20.000); other material [[Collection CFN|CFN]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – A manuscript *Fungus flora of Cornwall* is in the libraries of the British mycological Society and the Dept. Bot., Univ. Exeter. #### Bibliography and biography BL 2: 231, 708; Clokie p. 233; Desmond p. 521; IH 2: (files); Kew 4: 474; SBC p. 130. #### Biofile - Anon., Rev. bryol. lichénol. 22: 99. 1953 (d. 2 Jan 1953). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 84.11, 84.18. 1980. - Edees, E.S., Bot. Soc. Brit. Isl. Proc. 1(19: 110-13. 1954 (obit., portr., bibl., b. 5 Nov 1881, d. 22 Jan 1953); herb. 10.000 phan., 10.000 bryo.). - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. München 16: 423. 1980 (lich. at M through Berl. bot. Tauschver. \[of which Rilstone was a member\]. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 75. 1957 (coll.). - Palmer, J.T., Nova Hedwigia 15: 155. 1968 (on a mss. *Fungus flora of Cornwall*). - Rilstone, F., A bryophyte flora of Cornwall, i, Musci, Trans. brit. bryol. Soc. 1: 75-100. 1948, ii. Sphagna, ib. 1: 153-155. 1949, iii Hepat., ib. 1: 156-165. 1949; see also J. Bot. 74: 234-236. 1936. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 516. 1977. - Wallace, E.C., Trans. Brit. bryol. Soc. 2(3): 501. 1954 (obit.).