William Starling Sullivant
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US bryologist (1803-1873)
About William Starling Sullivant
William Starling Sullivant (January 15, 1803 – April 30, 1873) was an early American botanist recognized as the foremost authority on bryophytes in the United States.
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- Known for
- Notes on Mr. Charles Stodder's paper entitled "Nobert's Test Plate and Modern Microscopes," published in the American Naturalist, April, 1868, Critical re-examination of the Asiatic mosses reported by Sullivant and Lesquereux, [Musci or mosses; Hepaticae or Liverworts from M. A. Curtis, Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina, part III, Botany ... ]
- Born
- 1803-01-15
- Died
- 1873-04-30
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Notes on Mr. Charles Stodder's paper entitled "Nobert's Test Plate and Modern Microscopes," published in the American Naturalist, April, 1868
Critical re-examination of the Asiatic mosses reported by Sullivant and Lesquereux
[Musci or mosses; Hepaticae or Liverworts from M. A. Curtis, Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina, part III, Botany ... ]
Notices of some new mosses in the collection of the United States exploring expedition
Musci cubenses Wrightiani, coll. 1856-1858
On Nobert's Test Plate and the striae of diatoms
Antitrichia californica Sull. ms
Musci boreali-americani quorum specimina exsiccata
Cryptogamia. Musci
Musci boreali-americani
Orthotrichum jamesianum Sull. ms
Notice of some new species of mosses from the Pacific Islands
Notices of several new species of mosses and hepatics from Tierra del Fuego
Account of three undescribed plants of central Ohio
Plagiochasma erythrosperma Sull. in herb
New Hepaticae
Sandwich Island Mosses
On the measurement of the striæ of diatoms
Algae
Botany. Musci
Mosses and liverworts
Original sketches from which plates were made for Genera of musci and hepatics for 2d. ed. of Gray's Manual ...
Mosses of the North Pacific exploring expedition under the command of Captains Rodgers and Ringgold
The Musci and Hepaticae of the United States east of the Mississippi River
Aerogens
Characters of some new Musci collected by Charles Wright in the North Pacific exploring expedition, under the command of Captain John Rodgers
Icones muscorum or figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured
Notices of some new mosses in the collection of the United States exploring expedition under Captain Wilkes
Musci boreali-americani quorum specimina exsiccata
Musci alleghanienses
Icones muscorum
Contributions to the bryology and hepaticology of North America
The musci and hepaticae of the United States east of the Mississippi River
Icones muscorum
Correspondence