FARLOW HERBARIUM 
INDEX TO THE HEPATIC HERBARIUM OF W. S. SULLIVANT 
The bryophyte herbarium of William Starling Sullivant (1903-1873), 
together with his manuscripts and library, was presented by his family to the 
Gray Herbarium at Harvard in 1874. His other collections, including duplicates 
of his exsiccatae and of some additional bryophytes went to the Ohio Agri¬ 
cultural College and are now at OS. The gift to Harvard stipulated that 
"the collections be kept distinct and not distributed and incorporated with 
1 
others." In 1899 the cryptogamic part of the Gray Herbarium was separated and 
added to the collections of W. G. Farlow, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at 
Harvard. Lucius Underwood was hired to arrange the Sullivant hepatics on new 
sheets and to modernize the nomenclature. In 1973-1974 the herbarium was re¬ 
mounted and the nomenclature returned as nearly as possible to that of the 
original herbarium. 
The hepatics are the smaller part of Sullivant’s bryophyte herbarium, 
comprising 1739 specimens. All of Sullivant’s types are here, except those 
of the Wilkes Expedition, which was lost in the mails before Sullivatit’s 
death. He had published eight new taxa from the Wilkes collection, and as was 
his custom, had made drawings of the type specimens; the drawings are in the 
herbarium. A full set of Fendler’s Venezuelan hepatics were returned to 
Sullivant by Gottsche, who named them. There are 61 specimens of Hooker and 
Thomson’s Herb. Ind. or., named by Mitten, and numerous specimens, including 
isotypes, of Sullivant’s correspondents, notably Lehmann, Montagne, Schimper, 
Dozy and Molkenboer, Hampe, and Austin. A Sullivant collection, kept separate 
and not indexed here, is a set of fragments of 84 specimens from the Schweinitz 
herbarium at PH, annotated by Sullivant. 
In the Index, only Sullivant’s type specimens and a few others are under¬ 
lined, no attempt has been made to verify the other isotypes or lectotypes 
represented. 
