> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 873](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190344) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8556-1) LSID 8556-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3423003) QID Q3423003 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rollins, Reed Clarke (1911-x), American botanist; B.A. Univ. Wyoming 1933; M.S. State College Washington 1936; Dr. phil. Harvard 1941; curator of the Dudley Herbarium of Stanford University 1940-1948; asst. prof. ib. 1940-1941, assoc. prof. ib. 1947-1948; director of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 1948-1979, from 1954 Asa Gray professor of systematic botany at Harvard University; specialist on Cruciferae; president of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy 1954-1959; member of the editorial committee for botanical nomenclature 1954-x. **Abbreviated name**: *Rollins* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rollins*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DS|DS]] (orig. p.p.), [[Collection GH|GH]] (most types orig. p.p.) and [[Collection WYO|WYO]] (orig. p.p.); duplicates at e.g. [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection RM|RM]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection USFS|USFS]], [[Collection VDB|VDB]], [[Collection WS|WS]]. See Smithsonian Archives SIA 227, 7142. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 174 (b. 7 Dec 1911); Bossert p. 337; IH 1 (ed. 1): 20, (ed. 2): 36, (ed. 3): 41, (ed. 4): 43, (ed. 5): 39, (ed. 6): 50, 363, (ed. 7): 50, 341, 2: (files); Kew 4: 510; Langman p. 641-642; Lenley p. 353; NW p. 56; PH 209; Roon p. 95. #### Biofile - Anon., Fl. males. Bull. 11: 404. 1955 (Asa Gray prof. syst. bot.); Taxon 3: 94. 1954 (Asa Gray prof. syst. bot.), 5: 2. 1956 (in group photo), 14: 114. 1965 (id.). - Bennett, W.I., Harvard Mag. Nov 1975: 14-17. 1975 (on S.E.M., Lesquerella and Rollins). - Constance, L.C., Taxon 31(3): 401-404. 1982 (biogr., portr.). - Cowan, R.S., Taxon 30: 724. 1981 (Garden Clubs of America's Gold Seal). - Knobloch, I.W., Pl. coll. N. Mexico 59. 1979. - Martin, J., Harvard Mag. Sep-Oct 1977, p. 89-90 (portr.). - Rollins, R.C., Taxon 8: 277-279. 1958 (Taxonomy and the international association; presidential address at Montreal botanical congress; initiating a widening of the scope of IAPT and Taxon); Occas. Pap. Farlow Herb. 16: 8. 1981 (in group photo). - Shetler, S.G., Fl. N. Amer. Rep. 61, app. D: 3. 1971. - Shetler, S.G. et al., Flora North America, proposal to National Science Foundation, Washington 30 Jun 1971, p. 3 (curr. vit.). - Solbrig, O.T., Taxon 31(3): 405-414. 1982 (Harvard years, bibl.). - Thomas, J., Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 161. 1961. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 292, 293, 362. 1937, 4: 452. 1938, 5: 516. 1939, 6: 331. 1941, 7: 95. 1943. - Walker, J.W., Rhodora 73: 461. 1971 (*Reedrollinsia* validated). #### Festschrift Taxon 31(3). August 1982, with a portrait and bibliography and with biographical articles and tributes by L. Constance, O. Solbrig and R.S. Cowan & F.A. Stafleu. #### Eponymy *Rollinsia* I.A. Al-Shehbaz (1982). #### Note For a synthesis of Rollins long-time work on *Lesquerella*, see R.C. Rollins and E.A. Shaw, *The genus Lesquerella* (Cruciferae) in North America, Cambridge, Mass. 6 Jun 1973, xii, 288 p., rev. B.B. Simpson, Taxon 23: 200-201. 1974. – Companion volume: *Atlas of the trichomes of Lesquerella* (Cruciferae), Bussey Institution of Harvard University 1975, 48 p., with U.C. Banerjee. For a complete bibliography see Taxon 31(3): 409-414. 1982. ### Publications ##### n.9482. The genus Arabis **Title** *The genus Arabis* L. in the Pacific Northwest... (Research Studies of the State College of Washington) 1936. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1936, p. \[1\]-52 as Res. Stud. State Coll. Washington 4(1): \[1\]-52. Mar 1936. – See also *A monographic study of Arabis in Western America*, Rhodora 43: 289-325. 12 Jul 1941, 348-411. 14 Aug 1911, 425-481. 10 Sep 1941 (also reprinted with orig. pag. and special cover for Contr. Gray Herb. 138, 1941), and *Studies of Arabis of western North America*, Syst. Bot. 6: 55-64. 1981. *Ref*.: Constance, L., Madroño 4(1): 37. 6 Jan 1937.