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### Author
Wager, Horace Athelstan (1876-1951), English botanist; went to South Africa 1903; professor of botany and zoology Transvaal University College (later Pretoria University).
**Abbreviated name**: *Wager* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wager*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection PRE|PRE]]. – Some further material (mosses) in [[Collection BM|BM]] (incl. some holotypes), [[Collection H|H]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Lenley p. 426; SBC p. 134.
#### Biofile
- Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 125. 1978.
- Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 366. 1981 (portr; main data).
- Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 519. 1977 (coll.).
#### Eponymy
*Wageria* F.L. Stevens et Dalbey (1918).
#### Note
- (1) H.A. Wager's son, Vincent Athelstan Wager (b. 1904) published on phytopathology and mycology, see E. Doidge, Bothalia 5: 1027. 1950. Herbarium material at PRE.
- (2) Harold William Taylor Wager (1882-1929), lecturer in botany, Yorkshire College of see Desmond p. 632, and A.C.S., Proc. R. Soc. B. 106: xix-xxii. 1930.
### Publications
##### n.16.477. A check list of the mosses of South Africa
**Title**
*A check list of the mosses of South Africa*... Pretoria (Buckley & Van Duyn,...) 1917.
**Abbreviated title**: *Check list moss. S. Afr.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1917 (US rd. 6 Nov 1917; J. Bot. Nov 1917), p. \[1\]-20. *Copies*: PH, US, USDA.