> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 31](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120162) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/152-1) LSID 152-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6147077) QID Q6147077 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Allen, Timothy Field (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Allen, Timothy Field (1837-1902), American algologist. **Abbreviated name**: *T.F. Allen* \[standard form in IPNI: *Allen*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]] (mostly Charophyta). *Exsiccatae*: 1. *Characeae americanae exsiccatae* (pars i, nos. 1-10, fasc. ii-iv, nos. 11-40a, 41-46, Boston (i), New York 1880-1895). Sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. 2. *Characeae japonicae exsiccatae* (nos. 1-17, 1895), sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. The New York Botanical Garden also issued duplicates from Allen's herbarium outside the regular exsiccatae. *Ref*.: IH 2: 32. - De Toni, Syll. alg. 4(1): ii. 1897 (bibl.) - Howe, J. New York Bot. Gard. 2: 52-54. 1901. - Wood, Farlowia 3(3): 327-329. 1948 (dates). - Koster, Taxon 18: 549. 1969. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 60-61. 1969. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 41; BM 1: 30; Bossert p. 8; CSP 9: 32, 12: 10; 13: 70; Kew 1: 41; MW p. 4; NI 17. - Britton, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 30: 173-177. 1903 (portr., bibl.) - Barnhart in Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 20-21. 1920. - Humphrey, Makers of N. American botany 3-4. 1961. - Wood and Imahori, Revision Characeae 793-794. 1965 (lists all publications on Characeae). - Ewan, Short hist. bot. US 78. 1969. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 4. 1973. #### Eponymy Vide supra, sub J. F. Allen. ### Publications ##### n.86. Characeae americanae **Title** *Characeae americanae*, illustrated and described, New York (author) \[1879\], 2 parts. Qu. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Charac. amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (part 1: J. Bot. Mai 1879; Nat. Nov. Jun 1879; part 2, Nat. Nov. Aug 1879) (see Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6: 315. 1879, and Sayre 1969). – Two coloured plates with descriptive letter-press. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 30; Kew 1: 41. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 60. 1969. - Wood and Imahori, Revision Characeae 1: 793. 1965. ##### n.87. The Characeae of America **Title** *The Characeae of America*... with coloured illustrations from the original drawings by the author. Boston (S. E. Cassino) \[1880\], 2 parts. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Charac. America*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880, part. 1: \[1\]-8, *pl. 1-3*, 2: \[9\]-\[14\], *pl. 4-6.* *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: Kew 1: 41. - H. & J. G., J. Bot. 19: 92. Mar 1881. - Wood and Imahori, Revision Characeae 1: 793. 1965. ##### n.88. The Characeae of America **Title** *The Characeae of America*. New York (author) 1888-1896, 4 parts. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Charac. America*. **Notes** |part |pages |*plates* |dates | |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1-64 |*55* |Jan-Feb 1888 |2(1) |1-8 |*14, 6* |Mar 1893(?) |2(2) |9-17 |*8* |Dec 1894| |2(3) |19-28 |*9* |Apr 1896| Allen, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 20: 258 (1893) says that 2(1) was actually published in 1892; see also Wood and Imahori (1965). Part 1 is announced by Nat. Nov. early Mar 1888 as having been published in 1887 but came out Jan-Feb 1888 (J. Bot. Apr 1888; Flora rd. Mar 1888). *Ref*.: BM 1: 30; Kew 1: 41; NI 17; IDC 6335. - Wood, Farlowia 3(3): 334, 335. 1948. - Wood and Imahori, Revision Characeae 1: 793. 1965. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 60. 1969. ##### n.89. Bull. Torrey bot. Club **Title** Japanese Characeae, *Bull. Torrey bot. Club* 21(12): 523-526. Dec 1894, 22(2): 68-71. Feb 1895, 25(2): 73-82. Feb 1898. **Notes** *Publ*.: As above. – Also reprinted with consecutive pagination 1-18, with 24 unnumbered plates. The plates from drawings by Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff appeared only with the reprints (Robinson 1906). *Ref*.: MW p. 4; Kew 1: 41. - Robinson, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 4(13): 299. 1906. - Wood et Imahori, Revision Characeae 1: 793, 794. 1965.