New Species And Combinations Published In M. J. Young’S Familiar Lessons In Botany With Flora Of Texas (1873)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Dorr, Laurence J. (2022): New Species And Combinations Published In M. J. Young’S Familiar Lessons In Botany With Flora Of Texas (1873). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 16 (1): 29-46, DOI: 10.17348/jbrit.v16.i1.1218, URL: doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v16.i1.1218 ABSTRACT Familiar lessons in Botany with flora of Texas (1873) by M.J. Young was analyzed to establish how many nomenclatural novelties it contains.

The flora portion of the book,written with the assistance of S.B.Buckley,borrowed almost all its descriptions,often verbatim,from earlier floras.Despite extensive copying, Young described two and Buckley one new species in this flora,and Young made six new combinations. These nine names as well as eight others either incorrectly attributed to Young or misapplied by her are discussed and seven lectotypes and four neotypes are designated here.