> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 557](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333696) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12863-1) LSID 12863-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21608771) QID Q21608771 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shecut, John \[Linnaeus Edward Whitridge\] (1770-1836), American botanist; Dr. med. Philadelphia 1791; practicing physician at Charleston, S.C. 1791-1836. **Abbreviated name**: *Shecut* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shecut*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ADB (by J.R. Childs); BM 4: 1912; DAB 17: 53; Jackson p. 362; Lenley p. 469 (Torrey corr.).; LS 24815; ME 1: 229, 3: 653; PR 8651, ed. 1: 9609; Rehder 3: 62; SO add. 786a; Tucker 1: 647. #### Biofile - Anon., N.Y. Publ. Libr. Bull. 68: 582. 1964; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 550. 1967. - A.R.C., Dict. amer. biogr. 17: 53. 1935. - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldwin. 55. 1843. - Elliot, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. sci. 234. 1979. - Kelly, H.A., Cycl. Amer. med. biogr. 2: 365-366. 1912. - Kelly, H.A. & W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 1042-1043. 1920. - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 1: 7. 1977, ed. 2: 7. 1981. - Sabin, J., Dict. books Amer. 19: 403-404. 1891. - Willis, E., Bull. Coll. Charleston Mus. 2(4): 27-32. 1906 (sketch of life; origin museum). - Wilson, G., Univ. South Carol. Bull. 72: 29-32. 1918 (biogr. sketch, bibl.). - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 5. 489-490. 1888. #### Eponymy *Shecutia* Nieuwland (1916). ### Publications ##### n.11.877. Flora carolinæensis **Title** *Flora carolinæensis*; or a historical, medical, and economical display of the vegetable kingdom; according to the Linnaean, or sexual system of botany. Being a collection or compilation of the various plants hitherto discovered and made known by the several authors on botany, &c. in two volumes. By John L.E.W. Shecut. Vol. i. Charleston (printed for the author,...) 1806. †. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. carol.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1806 (p. \[1\]: 1 Jan 1806; came out in parts; legal deposit 8 Jan 1806), p. \[i-ii\], *pl. 1* (frontisp.), \[iii, expl. frontisp.\], \[1\]-579, with text, *pl. 2-4* (uncol.), \[580, dir. binder\], \[3 p. subscr., 2 p. poetry\]. *Copies*: FH, HH, KU, MO, NY, PH, USDA. *Ref*.: Anon., Med. Repos. 5: 54-56. 1808 (rev.).