> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 425](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212467) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10784-1) LSID 10784-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6118176) QID Q6118176 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tracy, Samuel Mills (1847-1920), American botanist and agronomist; MS Mich. Agric. Coll. 1873; professor of botany, Missouri State Univ. 1877-1887; associated with USDA in various functions; director of the USDA Experimental Station, Starkville, Miss., 1887-1897; special agent 1897-1914; agronomist from 1914. **Abbreviated name**: *Tracy* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tracy*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TAES|TAES]] (private herb.); important sets at [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection MO|MO]] (4393), [[Collection MSC|MSC]] and [[Collection NY|NY]]. Further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]] (1513), [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection CU|CU]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection LSU|LSU]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MISSA|MISSA]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection PENN|PENN]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]], [[Collection SMU|SMU]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection VT|VT]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Plants of the Gulf States*, collected and distributed by S.M. Tracy; irregular series; over 9000 specimens distributed (see Stevenson 1971). – *Library* at [[Collection TAES|TAES]]; *field notes* at [[Collection US|US]]; *letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]; other letters at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], SIA. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 397 (b. 30 Apr 1847, d. 5 Sep 1920); BL 1: 184, 193, 321; BM 5: 2130; Bossert p. 405; CSP 19: 182; Ewan ed. 1: 200, 323-324, ed. 2: 223; Hawksworth p. 186; Hortus 3: 1205; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 344; Kelly p. 228; Langman p. 713; Lenley p. 413; LS 7976, 26975-26987, 40009; MW p. 501; NW p. 59; PH 565, 567, 937; Rehder 1: 319, 3: 551, 5: xviii; SIA see index; Stevenson p. 1260; TL-2/6664; Tucker 1: 696; Urban-Berl. p. 404; Zander ed. 10, p. 725, ed. 11, p. 827. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men Sci. eds. 1-2, 1906-1910; Bot. Centralbl. 71: 384. 1897, 73: 80. 1898 (resigns directorship Starkville; to Biloxi); Bot. Monatschr. 15: 303. 1897 (to Biloxi, Miss.); Bot. Soc. Amer. Publ. 79: 93-94. 1921; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 193: 123-125. 1966; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 372-373. 1969; J. Mycol. 9: 81. 1903 (portr.); Mycologia 13: 54. 1921 (d.); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 18: 45. 1922; Nat. Nov. 19: 443. 1897 (to Biloxi, Miss.); Nature 106: 287. 1920 (obit., not.); Science ser. 2. 52: 270. 1920 (obit. not.); Who's who Amer. 12, 1914-1923; Who was who Amer. 1: 1250. 1978. - Earle, F.S., Torreya 21: 64-65. 1921. - Ewan, J., *in* R.W. Long & O. Lakela, Fl. trop. Florida 7-8. 1971. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 740. 1984. - Moldenke, H.N., J. New York Bot. Gard. 42: 38. 1941 (3000 specim. NY). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 20. 1981. - Stevenson, J., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 470-471. 1971 (exsicc). #### Composite works - (1) Co-author, G.C. Neally et al., *Invest. grass. Texas* 1888, TL-2/6664. - (2) With F.S. Earle, *Fungi, in* E.L. Greene, *Pl. baker.* 1: 15-37. 22 Feb 1901, 2: 1-30. 25 Mar 1901 (TL-2/2142). #### Eponymy *Tracya* H. Sydow et P. Sydow (1901); *Tracyanthus* J.K. Small (1903); *Tracylla* (P.A. Saccardo) F. Trassi (1904). *Note*: *Tracyina* S.F. Blake (1937) honors J.P. Tracy, a plant collector in California. ### Publications ##### n.14.828. Flora of Missouri **Title** *Flora of Missouri* \[Report Missouri State Horticultural Society 1885... Jefferson City 1886\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1885, p. \[397\]-500. *Copy*: MO. – Published as an appendix to Rep. Missouri State Hort. Soc. 1885: \[397\]-500. 1886. ##### n.14.829. Catalogue of the **Title** *Catalogue of the* phanerogamous and vascular cryptogamous *plants of Missouri*... Jefferson City (Tribune Printing Company,...) 1886. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Missouri*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1886 (p. 4: 31 Dec 1885; TBC Aug 1886), p. \[1\]-106. *Copies*: HH, MO, PH, US, USDA. ##### n.14.830. Notes on western Uredineae **Title** *Notes on western Uredineae*... Journal of Mycology... 1888. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Beverley Thomas Galloway (1863-1938). *Publ*.: Jul 1888, p. \[61\]-71. *Copy*: Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Mycol. 4(7): \[61\]-71. 1888. ##### n.14.831. Misissippi fungi **Title** *Misissippi fungi*... Agricultural College, Miss., May, 1895. **Notes** *Co-author*: Franklin Summer Earle (1856-1929), TL-2/1: 716. (*1*): Mai 1895, p. \[79\]-124. – Bull. Miss. Agr. Mech. Coll. Exp. Sta. 34: \[79\]-124. 1895. (*2*): Mai 1896, p. \[135\]-153. – Id. 38: \[135\]-153. 1896. *Additional list of Mississippi fungi. Follow-up*: with F.S. Earle, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 23: 205. 1896 ("New species...") and 26: 493-495. 1899 ("New fungi..."), see also 28: 184-188. 1901 ("some new fungi..."). *Copy*: Stevenson. ##### n.14.832. A report upon the forage plants **Title** *A report upon the forage plants* and forage resources *of the Gulf States*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1898. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1898 (p. 3: 15 Jul 1898), p. \[1\]-55. *Copy*: US. – Issued as Bull. 15. USDA Div. Agrost. 1898. ##### n.14.833. Elements of botany. Key and flora **Title** Bergen's *Elements of botany. Key and flora* Southern United States edition... Boston (Ginn & Company,...) 1899. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Elem. bot. key fl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1899 (p. 4: 15 Mar 1899), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-266. *Copies*: LC, NY. *Original publication* in Joseph Young Bergen, *Elements of botany*, Boston and London (published by Ginn & Company) 1896, front., p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-275, appendix S.M. Tracy's key: \[1\]-57. *Copies*: HH, US, USDA. ##### n.14.834. The insular flora of Mississippi and Louisiana **Title** *The insular flora of Mississippi and Louisiana*... Contributions from the Department of Botany, Columbia University. – No. 174. 1901. Oct. **Notes** *Senior author*: Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868-1947). *Publ*.: 2 Mar 1901 (in journal), p. \[i\], \[61\]-101. *Copy*: US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey bot. Club 28: 61-101. 1901.