> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 213](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333352) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9118-1) LSID 9118-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63744) QID Q63744 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schleicher, Johann Christoph (1768-1834), German-born (Hessen-Nassau) botanist; settled ca. 1790 in Bex, Vaud, Switzerland as owner of a firm selling living plants as well as herbarium specimens. **Abbreviated name**: *Schleich.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Schleich.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection G|G]] and [[Collection LAU|LAU]] (major part), other material in [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GJO|GJO]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection H|H]]-Ach., [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection NEU|NEU]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection PR|PR]], [[Collection TUR|TUR]]. - (1) Genève ([[Collection G|G]]) received in 1821 a collection *Plantae in Helvetia cis*- *et transalpina sponte nascentes*; the Boissier herbarium distributed in 1898 Schleicher plants with labels "Reliquiae Herb. Schleicher à Bex, Vaud, Suisse... communicavit Herb. Boissier 1898". - (2) Schleicher himself distributed *Plantae* \[*Cryptogamae*\] *helveticae*, cent. 1-5, 500 nos., 1805-1807. Sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CAN|CAN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]] (see Sayre, 1969, for further details. - (3) Sets of *Salix* distributed by Schleicher are listed by GJO, [[Collection LE|LE]] and [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunberg), but are also included in the above-mentioned holdings of various herbaria. *Note*: For more detailed information on Schleicher's sets of exsiccatae and associated publications see Burdet & Greuter (1982). The references to Haller on the labels are to A. von Haller, *Hist. stirp. Helvet.* 1768. These references may have nomenclatural importance. *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG(1): 143, 12(2): 96; Backer p. 518; Barnhart 3: 229 (d. 27 Aug 1834); BM 4: 1839; Clokie p. 239; Dryander 5: 70; Frank 3 (Anh.): 90; GR, cat. p. 71; Hawksworth p. 185; Hegi 4(1): 50, 4(2): 798, 6(1): 442; Herder p. 181; Hortus 3: 1203; IH 1 (ed. 2): 69, (ed. 3): 87, (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 342; Jackson p. 344; Kew 4: 129; LS 23962; NI 3: 245; PR 8221, ed. 1: 9153; Rehder 1: 433, 2: 102; Saccardo 1: 149, 2: 99; SBC p. 131; Stevenson p. 1257; TL-1/1170; Tucker 1: 631, 3: 272; Urban-Berl. p. 272, 281, 290, 313, 393, 415; Zander ed. 10, p. 712, ed. 11, p. 812. #### Biofile - Beer, G. de, The sciences were never at war 73. 1960. - Burdet, H.M. & W. Greuter, Candollea 37: 590-595. 1982 (distribution of exsiccatae and publications). - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souvenirs 139. 1862. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 447. 1880 (coll.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 43. 1969 (on exsiccatae); Bryologist 80: 517. 1977 (coll.). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gott. 148. 1982. - Wilczek, E., Bull. Soc. vaud. Sci. nat. 60: 6-8, 11. 1937 (on Schleicher coll. at LAU, major part of orig. herb. and library acquired 1832; lichens 1837). #### Eponymy *Schleichera* Willdenow (1806, *nom. cons.*). #### Handwriting Webbia 32(1): 37. 1977; Candollea 33: 171-172. 1978, 37: 593. 1982. ### Publications ##### n.10.795. Catalogus plantarum in Helvetia **Title** *Catalogus plantarum in Helvetia* cis- et transalpina sponte nascentium quas in continuis fere itineribus in usum botanophilorum collegit et summo studio collatione cum celeberrimorum auctorum descriptionibus et iconibus facta, rite redegit, J.C. Schleicher. Bex (in pago Lemano in Helvetia) \[1800\]. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Helv.* **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1800, p. \[1\]-76. *Copies*: G, H, HH, NY; IDC 5716. – See Burdet & Greuter (1982) sub f. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1807 (SY p. 31: Jan-Jun 1808), p. \[i\], \[1\]-39. *Copies*: G(2), H, HH, NY. – "Catalogus hucusque absolutus omnium plantarum in Helvetia cis et transalpina sponte nascentium. Quas continuis itineribus in usum botanophilorum collegit, nomine genuino destinxit ac collatione cum celebriorum auctorum descriptionibus et iconibus rite facta summo studio novissime redegit J.C. Schleicher. Bex, in pago helveto-vaudensi 1807. Oct. (in fours). – Bound with most copies: *Catalogus Salicum helvetiae* quas in usum botanophilorum collegit J.C. Schleicher, s.l.n.d., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-2. A simple list of names of Salix species with references to e.g. W (Willdenow), L (Linnaeus) and S (Schleicher). *Ed. 3*: 1815, p. \[1\]-48. *Copies*: FH, FI, G(2), H, HH; IDC 5718. – "Catalogus... \[as ed. 2\]... Bex, in pago Helveto-Vaudenst \[sic\]. Editio tertia emendata et auctior. 1815". Oct. (in fours). *Ed. 4*: 29 Dec 1821 (see Fuchs 1965), p. \[1\]-64. *Copies*: BR, FH, FI, G(3), MO, NY(2), PH, USDA; IDC 5201. – "Catalogus... \[as ed. 2\]... Bex, in pago Helveto-Valdensi. Editio quarta emendata et auctior. Camberii \[Chambéry\], ex typis Corrin ex Routin. 1821". Oct. (in fours). – Review: Anon., Flora 5: 464. 7 Aug 1832. *Note*: The catalogues provide names without descriptions but with (very) abbreviated references to earlier authors. For this reason the names in these catalogues and especially in ed. 4, may be of nomenclatural importance. For details see Fuchs 1965. *Ref*.: Fuchs, H.P., Taxon 14: 245-246. 1965 (on ed. 4).