Lucien Marcus Underwood was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Biography

He was born in New Woodstock, New York

Woodstock, New York

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, and graduated from Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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. In 1880 he was appointed professor of geology and botany in Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University is an independent undergraduate university located in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was acquired in 1854 with the first building erected in 1856...

, in 1883 professor of biology in his alma mater, and in 1891 he became professor of botany in De Pauw University. He died in Redding, Connecticut.

Works

Underwood published numerous papers in botanical journals, and was the author of Our Native Ferns and how to study them (Bloomington, Ill., 1881; 4th ed., 1893), Descriptive Catalogue of North American Hepaticae (New York, 1884) and “Hepaticae” in Gray's Manual of Botany. He also prepared An Illustrated Century of Fungi with 100 specimens (1889), and Hepaticae Americanae with 160 specimens (1887-93).

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