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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton

(09 Jan) 1858 - 1934 (25 Feb)





Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton was an American bryologist and pteridologist known for being one of the founding leaders of The New York Botanical Garden. She was married to Nathaniel Lord Britton, but only very rarely coauthored with him. Britton was a prolific researcher, and authored numerous publications (ca. 170 in our database) on moss systematics, often in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, The Observer, The Bryologist, and the North American Flora, in addition to publishing on ferns and conservation. She collected type specimens (e.g., Thelypteris brittonae and Ponthieva brittoniae), discovered new species (Schizaea pusilla), and was the first to describe the "fruit" of Eustichium norvegicum. Elizabeth was also dedicated to wildflower preservation; she assisted in the organization of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902) and chaired the Conservation Committee of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York (1925). Her roles, although significant, were volunteer positions including Honorary Curator of the Mosses (1912-death) and advising doctoral students at Columbia. With Abel Joel Grout, one of her students, in 1908 she founded the Sullivant Moss Society (known as the American Bryological and Lichenological Society after 1949).

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1887. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Letter to Botanical Club of A. A. A. S.. Botanical Gazette (6): 142-142.Google Scholar
1890. Bennett, James L., Elizabeth G. Britton, Conway McMillan, Witmer Stone and Merritt L. Fernald. Botanical Notes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (10): 259-261.Google Scholar
1890. Vail, Anna Murray, N. L. Britton, Elizabeth G. Britton and Arthur Hollick. NOTES ON THE SPRING FLORA OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 27-56.Google Scholar
1890. Britton, Elizabeth G.. New Mosses of North America. III-IV. Renauld and Cardot. Botanical Gazette (6): 151-151.Google Scholar
1891. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology. II.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 49-56.Google Scholar


1892. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Leucobryum minus, Hampe. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (6): 189-191.Google Scholar
1893. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology, III. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (10): 393-405.Google Scholar
1893. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Jaeger Moss Herbarium. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (8): 335-336.Google Scholar
1894. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology.-VIII.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (8): 343-372.Google Scholar
1894. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology. VII.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (5): 189-208.Google Scholar
1894. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology-VI.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (4): 137-160.Google Scholar
1894. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology, V.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 65-76.Google Scholar
1895. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology.IX.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 62-68.Google Scholar
1895. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contribution to American Bryology-XI.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (11): 447-458.Google Scholar
1895. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Contributions to American Bryology.IX.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1): 36-43.Google Scholar
1896. Britton, Elizabeth G.. An Enumeration of the Plants Collected by H. H. Rusby, in Bolivia, 1885-1886.-II.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (12): 471-499.Google Scholar
1897. Britton, Elizabeth G.. A Revision of the North American Species of Ophioglossum. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (12): 545-559.Google Scholar
1897. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Emily L. Gregory. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (5): 221-228.Google Scholar
1898. Britton, E. G., J. Franklin Collins and A. J. Grout. Microscopic Preparation of Mosses. The Bryologist (4): 89-91.Google Scholar
1898. Britton, Elizabeth G., Anna Murray Vail, D. A. Burnett, E. Classon, George G. Kennedy and George N. Best. New or Rare Mosses. The Bryologist (2): 41-43.Google Scholar
1898. Britton, E. G.. Mosses of Northern India. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (7): 398-398.Google Scholar
1898. Britton, Elizabeth G.. EDIBLE FUNGI. The Plant World (1): 9-11.Google Scholar
1898. Britton, E. G., Willard N. Clute and Myrtle Zuck Houghs. NOTES AND NEWS. The Plant World (1): 17-20.Google Scholar
1899. Britton, E. G.. A new Grimmia from Mt. Washington. Rhodora (8): 148-149.Google Scholar
1899. Britton, Elizabeth G.. A Bryological Memorial Meeting at Columbus, Ohio. The Bryologist (3): 77-78.Google Scholar
1899. Britton, Elizabeth G.. A New Tertiary Fossil Moss. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 79-81.Google Scholar
1899. Britton, Elizabeth G., Clara E. Cummings, E. L. Morris, Charles O. Rhodes, L. H. Dewey and Will R. Maxon. NOTES AND NEWS. The Plant World (4): 68-71.Google Scholar
1899. Britton, Elizabeth G.. FOSSIL MOSSES. The Plant World (7): 108-109.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, E. G.. Fissidens grandifrons Brid.. The Bryologist (3): 4-5.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, E. G.. On the Genus Fissidens, by Ernest Stanley Salmon, Ann. of Bot. 13: 103-130, Plates 5-7, March, 1899. The Bryologist (3): 5-6.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, E. G.. Notes. The Bryologist (4): 45-45.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, E. G. and R. S. Williams. A New Species of Mnium from Idaho and Montana. The Bryologist (1): 6-7.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Distribution of the Eastern Species of Mnium. The Bryologist (1): 4-6.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, Elizabeth G.. How to Know Some of the Commoner Bryums. The Bryologist (2): 16-19.Google Scholar
1900. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Bryological Notes.-I. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (12): 648-649.Google Scholar
1901. Durand, Elias J. and Elizabeth G. Britton. Some Further Observations on Buxbaumia. The Bryologist (2): 32-34.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, Elizabeth G. and Annie Morrill Smith. Notes on Rare and Little Known Mosses. The Bryologist (4): 62-63.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, Elizabeth G. and Alexandrina Taylor. Life History of Schizaea pusilla. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1): 1-19.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, Elizabeth G.. VANISHING WILD FLOWERS. Torreya (8): 85-94.Google Scholar
1901. Fretz, C. D., N. L. Britton, T. D. A. Cockerell and Elizabeth G. Britton. SHORTER NOTES. Torreya (7): 82-84.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, Elizabeth G.. THE RARE MOSSES OF BASHBISH FALLS. Torreya (1): 9-9.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, E. G. and S. H. B. SHORTER NOTES. Torreya (10): 119-120.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, E. G. and J. M. Bates. SHORTER NOTES. Torreya (9): 108-109.Google Scholar
1901. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Curly Grass, Schizaea pusilla. The Plant World (4): 72-73.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, Elizabeth G. and Alexandrina Taylor. The Life History of Vittaria lineata. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club (3): 185-211.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, E. G.. Note on a Long Island Moss. The Bryologist (4): 66-67.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, E. G. and A. M. Smith. Octodiceras julianum, Its Propagation, Distribution and History. The Bryologist (5): 83-85.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature. The Bryologist (1): 10-12.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Necrology. The Bryologist (1): 12-12.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Seligeria campylopoda, Kindb.. The Bryologist (2): 24-25.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Genus Sematophyllum. The Bryologist (4): 64-66.Google Scholar
1902. Huntington, J. Warren, Edward B. Chamberlin and Elizabeth G. Britton. Sullivant Moss Chapter Notes. The Bryologist (3): 52-52.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Trichomanes radicans. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (7): 475-477.Google Scholar
1902. Britton, N. L., Roland M. Harper, Elizabeth G. Britton and William T. Davis. SHORTER NOTES. Torreya (3): 43-45.Google Scholar
1902. Crockett, Alice L. and E. G. Britton. A Moss?. The Bryologist (6): 98-98.Google Scholar
1902. Lloyd, Francis E. and E. G. Britton. SHORTER NOTES. Torreya (6): 90-91.Google Scholar
1902. BRITTON, ELIZABETH G.. HOW THE WILD FLOWERS ARE PROTECTED. The Plant World (8): 150-157.Google Scholar
1902. MacDougal, D. T., N. L. Britton and Elizabeth G. Britton. The Wild Flower Preservation Society. The Plant World (12): 247-248.Google Scholar
1903. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Sematophyllum recurvans. The Bryologist (1): 1-3.Google Scholar
1903. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature. II. The Bryologist (3): 42-43.Google Scholar
1903. Britton, Elizabeth G.. West Indian Mosses in Florida. The Bryologist (4): 58-61.Google Scholar
1903. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Splachnums. The Bryologist (6): 91-93.Google Scholar
1903. Best, G. N., Harriet Wheeler, Alice L. Crockett and E. G. Britton. Reports of the Sullivant Moss Chapter. The Bryologist (1): 17-21.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Papillaria nigrescens (Sw.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. Meteorium nigrescens Mitt.. The Bryologist (1): 14-15.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature III. The Bryologist (3): 48-50.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Further Notes on Sematophyllum. The Bryologist (4): 59-61.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Hyophila: A New Genus to the United States. The Bryologist (5): 69-71.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. When Doctors Disagree. The Bryologist (5): 78-78.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G. and Max Fleischer. The Mosses of Java (Die Musci der Flora von Buitenzorg) (Zugleich Laubmoosflora von Java). The Bryologist (5): 76-76.Google Scholar
1904. Cockerell, T. D. A., N. L. Britton, J. A. Shafer, A. J. Grout, C. F. Millspaugh, Elizabeth G. Britton, Edw. L. Greene and Marshall A. Howe. SHORTER NOTES. Torreya (11): 170-176.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. THE RELATIONS OF PLANTS TO BIRDS AND INSECTS. The Plant World (3): 69-70.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America. The Plant World (4): 97-99.Google Scholar
1904. Howard, L. O. and Elizabeth G. Britton. OFFICIAL NOMINATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. The Plant World (10): 254-255.Google Scholar
1904. Britton, Elizabeth G.. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. The Plant World (12): 305-307.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, E. G.. Musci Archipelagi Indici. The Bryologist (4): 66-66.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, Elizabeth G.. A Long Lost Genus to the United States: Erpodium (Brid.) M. C.. The Bryologist (4): 71-71.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature IV.: The Genus Neckera Hedw. The Bryologist (1): 4-6.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature. V. The Bryologist (3): 49-49.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Botanical Congress at Vienna. The Bryologist (5): 80-81.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude. Bryological Notes-II. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (5): 261-268.Google Scholar
1905. Britton, Elizabeth G.. THE WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA. The Plant World (1): 14-17.Google Scholar
1906. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature VI. The Bryologist (3): 37-40.Google Scholar
1906. Britton, Elizabeth G., K. Goebel and Isaac Bayley. Organography of Plants,. The Bryologist (1): 10-12.Google Scholar
1907. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature VII. The Bryologist (1): 7-8.Google Scholar
1907. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Rhacopilum tomentosum (Sw.) Brid.. The Bryologist (2): 32-33.Google Scholar
1907. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature VIII. The Bryologist (6): 100-10.Google Scholar
1907. Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude and Arthur Hollick. American Fossil Mosses, with Description of a New Species from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (3): 139-142.Google Scholar
1908. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature IX. The Bryologist (2): 24-25.Google Scholar
1908. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Genus Zygodon in North America. The Bryologist (4): 61-66.Google Scholar
1909. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature X. The Bryologist (2): 28-29.Google Scholar
1909. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature XI. The Bryologist (4): 62-63.Google Scholar
1909. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Musci Mexicani. The Bryologist (5): 83-83.Google Scholar
1909. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Arctic Mosses. The Bryologist (6): 106-106.Google Scholar
1910. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Coe Finch Austin. 1831-1880. The Bryologist (1): 1-4.Google Scholar
1910. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Adalbert Geheeb. March 21st, 1842-Sept. 13th, 1909. The Bryologist (4): 86-86.Google Scholar
1910. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Splachnobryum in Greenhouses. The Bryologist (5/6): 116-119.Google Scholar
1911. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Reviews, Current Literature. The Bryologist (2): 38-39.Google Scholar
1911. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Review of Dismier's Revision of Philonotis. The Bryologist (3): 43-44.Google Scholar
1911. Britton, Elizabeth G.. African Mosses. The Bryologist (5): 89-89.Google Scholar
1911. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Exotic Mosses. The Bryologist (5): 89-90.Google Scholar
1911. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Fungi on Mosses. The Bryologist (6): 103-103.Google Scholar
1911. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Fern Collecting in Cuba. American Fern Journal (4): 75-77.Google Scholar
1912. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Leucodontopsis Cardot (Leucodoniopsis R. & C.). The Bryologist (2): 26-28.Google Scholar
1912. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on the Mosses of Jamaica. The Bryologist (2): 28-29.Google Scholar
1913. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Ditrichum rhynchostegium Kindb.. The Bryologist (1): 8-8.Google Scholar
1913. Grout, A. J., Albert LeRoy Andrews, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Julia Titus Emerson and Robert Statham Williams. North American Flora, Vol. 15, Parts 1 and 2. Sphagnaceae-Leucobryaceae,,,. The Bryologist (6): 89-90.Google Scholar
1913. Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude. West Indian Mosses-I. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (12): 653-676.Google Scholar
1914. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Nomenclature. XII. The Bryologist (1): 7-10.Google Scholar
1915. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Mosses of Bermuda. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 71-76.Google Scholar
1915. Britton, Elizabeth G. and Arthur Hollick. A New American Fossil Moss. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1): 9-10.Google Scholar
1915. Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude. West Indian Mosses-II. Mosses of the Danish West Indies and Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1): 1-8.Google Scholar
1916. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Fissidens: I. Difficulties in Determining the Oldest Species. The Bryologist (6): 87-89.Google Scholar
1917. Britton, Elizabeth G., Edward B. Chamberlain, Elizabeth M. Dunham, George B. Kaiser, Geo H. Conklin and Charles C. Plitt. Annual Reports. Sullivant Moss Society. 1916. The Bryologist (1): 9-14.Google Scholar
1918. Britton, E. G.. The Catkin-Hypnum, with Long Hoses. The Bryologist (2): 32-32.Google Scholar
1918. Britton, E. G.. Jagerinopsis squarrosa, n. sp.. The Bryologist (3): 48-50.Google Scholar
1918. Britton, E. G.. Further Notes on Jagerinopsis, Broth.. The Bryologist (5): 80-80.Google Scholar
1918. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Mosses from Florida Collected by Severin Rapp. The Bryologist (2): 27-28.Google Scholar
1918. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Porotrichum Not Thamnobryum. The Bryologist (5): 83-84.Google Scholar
1918. Kaiser, George B., Elizabeth G. Britton, Edward B. Chamberlain, Geo. H. Conklin and Charles C. Plitt. Annual Reports. Sullivant Moss Society. 1917. The Bryologist (1): 18-24.Google Scholar
1919. Britton, E. G.. Mosses of Bermuda. The Bryologist (6): 87-87.Google Scholar
1919. Britton, Elizabeth G.. West Indian Mosses in Florida. The Bryologist (1): 2-2.Google Scholar
1919. Britton, Elizabeth G., Edward B. Chamberlain, George B. Kaiser, Caroline C. Haynes and Charles C. Plitt. Annual Reports. Sullivant Moss Society. 1918. The Bryologist (1): 5-11.Google Scholar
1919. Britton, Elizabeth G. and Dorothy Coker. Revision of the North American Species of Encalypta. The Bryologist (1): 3-4.Google Scholar
1919. Britton, Elizabeth G., Annie Morril Smith, Edward B. Chamberlain, G. N. Best, George H. Conklin, Alexander W. Evans, A. J. Grout, Caroline C. Haynes, J. M. Holzinger, Marshall A. Howe, George B. Kaiser, O. E. Jennings, Annie Lorenz, George E. Nichols, Charles C. Plitt, L. W. Riddle and R. S. Williams. Resolutions upon the Loss of the Collections and Library of M. Jules Cardot. The Bryologist (6): 87-88.Google Scholar
1920. Britton, Elizabeth G., Edward B. Chamberlain, George B. Kaiser, Caroline Coventry Haynes and Charles C. Plitt. Annual Reports. Sullivant Moss Society. 1919. The Bryologist (1): 11-16.Google Scholar
1921. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Bahama Mosses. The Bryologist (2): 17-19.Google Scholar
1921. Britton, Elizabeth G. and John M. Holzinger. The Rediscovery of Physcomitrium pygmæum James. The Bryologist (2): 26-27.Google Scholar
1921. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Plant Sanctuaries. American Fern Journal (4): 108-109.Google Scholar
1922. Britton, Elizabeth G.. On Some Mosses from the Blue Mountain of Cuba. The Bryologist (5): 89-90.Google Scholar
1923. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Notes on Fissidens, II. The Bryologist (1): 1-1.Google Scholar
1924. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Syrrhopodon parasiticus (Schwgr.) Besch.. The Bryologist (2): 34-35.Google Scholar
1924. Britton, Elizabeth G.. The Mosses of El Yunque. The Bryologist (4): 64-65.Google Scholar
1925. Britton, Elizabeth G.. Orthotrichum stellatum Brid.. The Bryologist (6): 71-72.Google Scholar
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