> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 4](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066306) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11290-1) LSID 11290-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966367) QID Q7966367 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wade, Walter (1760-1825), Irish botanist and physician practicing in Dublin; professor of botany for the Dublin Society; founder and director of the Botanical Garden of the Society, now National Botanic Garden, Glasnevin 1794-1825. **Abbreviated name**: *Wade* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wade*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DBN|DBN]] (specimens in Hortus gramineus glasnevensis 1818), [[Collection LINN|LINN]] (J.E. Smith herb.). – *Letters* to J.E. Smith in [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 447; BB p. 312; BL 2: 286, 729; BM 5: 2244-2245; Bossert p. 422; CSP 6: 221; DNB 58: 421 (20: 421-422) (G.S. Boulger); Dryander 3: 648; Henrey 2: 155, 156, 203, 3: 131-132; Jackson p. 125, 141, 143, 247, 251, 411; PR 9891-9895, ed. 1: 10865-10869; Rehder 5: 895; TL-2/5957, 15.549, see J.E. Smith; Tucker 1: 726-727. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 251: 316. 1965. - Crone, J.S., Conc. dict. Irish biogr. ed. 2. 257. 1937. - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 94. 1934. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 264. 1984 (coll.). - Knowles, M.C., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 38(B)(10): 181. 1929. - Lett, H.W., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 32: 68-69. 1914-1916. - Nelson, E.C., Newslett. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1:9, 10. 1979; Long Room 20-21: 16-21. 1980 (on Flora dublinensis); Glasra 5: 1-20. 1981 (bibl.; copies at DBN); Occas. Pap. Natl. Bot. Gard. Glasnevin 122. 1982; Arch. nat. Hist. 10: 538. 1982. - Praeger, R.L., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 7: cxlvi. 1901; Botanist in Ireland 78. 1939; Some Irish naturalists 173. 1949. - Scully, R.W., Fl. County Kerry xii. 1916. #### Composite works Published: *Quercus or oaks*: from the French of \[A.\] Michaux "Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique septentrionale" \[TL-2/5957\], Trans. Dublin Soc. 6, 1810 (annotated); xxi, \[ix\], 85 \[1\] p. #### Note - (1) For a detailed bibliography of Wade's writings see E.C. Nelson (1981). For Wade's projected *Flora dublinensis* of which only a sample was printed and distributed to a small number of bookshops see Nelson (1980). - (2) A *Catalogus plantarum rariorum in comitatu Gallovidiae, praecipue Cunnemara inventarum*:... was published by Wade in Trans. Dublin Soc. 2(2): \[103\]-127. 1802. No separate issue of this is known to E.C. Nelson. #### Eponymy *Wadea* Rafinesque (1838) may honor this author but no derivation was given. ### Publications ##### n.16.470. Catalogus systematicus plantarum **Title** *Catalogus systematicus plantarum* indigenarum in Comitatu Dublinensi inventarum. Pars prima... Dublini \[Apud Gul. Sleater,...\] 1794. †. Oct. (in 4-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. syst. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1794 (Wade sent a copy to J.E. Smith on 20 Sep 1794; the book is not mentioned by name), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-275, \[277-306\]. *Copies*: DNB, HH, MO, NY. – N. Colgan, Fl. county Dublin, p. xxiv, 1904, mentions a projected, but never published second part. ##### n.16.471. Catalogue of plants **Title** *Catalogue of plants* in the arboretum, fruticetum, herbarium, gramina vera, hortus tinctorius, hot & greenhouses of the Dublin Society's botanic garden at *Glasnevin... *Dublin (printed by Graisberry and Campbell,...) 1802. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Glasnevin*. **Notes** *Authorship*: anonymous; attributed to John Underwood by BM 5: 2163 (with reference to an earlier edition of 1800), to Walter Wade by E.C. Nelson 1982; see also under TL-2/15.549. *Publ*.: 1802, p. \[i\], \[1\]-137. *Copies*: G, LIV. – Printed separately and issued with Trans. R. Dubl. Soc. 2(2). 1802. Continuation see below, *Syst. cat. Glasnevin.* See Nelson (1981) no. 10. ##### n.16.472. Systematic catalogue **Title** *Systematic catalogue* of green and hothouse plants, in the Dublin Society's botanical garden at *Glasnevin*; with their scientific name, common name, country or native soil, time of flowering, and whether annual, biennal, perennial, tree or shrub. Dublin (printed by Graisberry & Campbell...) 1801 \[1802\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Syst. cat. Glasnevin*. **Notes** *Authorship*: anonymous; attributed to W. Wade by Nelson (1981, p. 9). *Publ*.: 1802 (even though dated 1801, see Nelson (1981), no. 10), p. \[139\]-247. *Copies*: Amer, philos. Soc, G, LIV. – Pagination continued from *Cat. pl. Glasnevin* (above); also issued with Trans. Dublin Soc. 2(2). ##### n.16.473. Plantae rariores in Hibernia **Title** *Plantae rariores in Hibernia* inventae; or habitats of some plants, rather scarce and valuable found in Ireland; with concise remarks on the properties and uses of many of them... Dublin (printed by Graisberry and Campbell,...) 1804. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. rar. Hibernia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1804 (p. \[v\]: 23 Jun 1804; copy sent to J.E. Smith 7 Aug 1804), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xiv, \[xv-xvi\], \[1\]-214. *Copies*: BR, DBN, G, HH, NY, USDA. – Also published, with two other papers, in Trans. Dubl. Soc. 4, 1804. – See Nelson (1981) no. 13. ##### n.16.474. Salices **Title** *Salices* or an essay towards a general history of Sallows, Willows & Osiers, their uses, and best methods of propagating and cultivating them... Dublin (Graisberry & Campbell) 1811. Oct (in 4-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Salices*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1811 (p. \[iii\]: Mar 1811), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xxii, \[1\]-7, \[1\], \[2\], \[1\]-406, \[1\]-56. *Copies*: B-S, DBN, G, HH, MO, NY, USDA.