> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 138](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212180) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10354-1) LSID 10354-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933649) QID Q5933649 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Syme, John Thomas Irvine Boswell (afterwards Boswell-Syme) (1822-1888), British botanist; curator Botanical Society, Edinburgh; from 1851 in London; lecturer at Charing Cross (1854-1867) and Westminster (1855-1867) Hospitals ; at the Free Church College, Edinburgh 1868. **Abbreviated name**: *Syme* \[standard form in IPNI: *Syme*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]]; further material at [[Collection BEL|BEL]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]] (bryo.), [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection WARMS|WARMS]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Note Often treated as Boswell or Boswell-Syme. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 226 (Boswell); BB p. 295; BL 1: 224, 721; BM 5: 2066; Clokie p. 251; Desmond p. 78 (sub Boswell, b. 1 Dec 1822, d. 31 Jan 1888); Henrey 2: 143; Hortus 3: 1205; IH 2: 88; Jackson p. 237; Rehder 2: 109; Urban-Berl. p. 323; Zander ed. 10, p. 722, ed. 11, p. 824. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., Newsl. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 8: 6. 1980 (on Syme's edition of English botany). - Anon., Ann. Bot. 2: 430. 1889 (bibl.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 233: 785. 1964; J. Bot. 12: 382. 1874 (works on British ferns as addition to "English botany"); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1887-1888. 84-85. 1890; Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 17: 516-519. 1889 (obit., bibl.). - Babington, C.C., Mem. J. Bot. corr. 474 (index) 1897. - Baker, J.G., Bot. 26: 82-84. 1888 (obit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.70. 1980. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 254. 1981. - Wagenitz, G., Ind. coll. princ. herb. Gott. 163. 1982. #### Composite works - (1) *English botany* ed. 3, vols. 1-12, 1863-1886, see under J.E. Smith (and J. Sowerby). - (2) Editor of editions 5 and 6 of *The London catalogue of British plants*, 1853, 1857; see under H.C. Watson. #### Eponymy *Symea* J.G. Baker (1871).