nomenclature that a compromise was not reached (and some of the principal American provisions adopted) until nearly 30 years later. Death and legacy He died at his home in the Bronx, after suffering a stroke 9 weeks earlier. The house he lived and worked in, the Britton Cottage, is preserved at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island. The genera Brittonastrum (now a synonym of Agastache Clayton ex Gronov.), Brittonella (a synonym of Mionandra Griseb.), Brittonamra (which is now a synonym of Coursetia DC.), Brittonia (synonym of Ferocactus Britton & Rose), and Brittonrosea (a synonym of Echinocactus Link & Otto) and also Neobrittonia. As well as the botanical journal Brittonia are all named after him. Works John Hendley Barnhart contributed a bibliography of all of Britton's works to Biographical memoir of Nathaniel Lord Britton, 1859-1934 authored by Elmer Drew Merrill and presented to the National Academy of Sciences at the annual meeting, 1938. In 1960, Henry A. Gleason published The scientific work of Nathanial Lord Britton, where he summarized and provided commentary on Britton's early botanical activities, botanical organizations, his nomenclatural work, the Illustrated Flora, his leadership of the New York Botanical Garden, his West Indian Flora, his North America Flora, his Flora of Northern South America, his North American Trees'', and his monographic work. A preliminary catalogue of the flora of New Jersey (1881) Et al. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic ocean westward to the 102d meridian 3 volumes. (1896–98) With Addison Brown. Contributions to the botany of the Yukon Territory (1901) Et al. Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada (1901) The sedges of Jamaica (1907) Studies in West Indian plants (1908–26) Rhipsalis in the West Indies (1909) An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions (Vol. 1–3, 1913) With Addison Brown. The vegetation of Mona Island (1915) Flora of Bermuda (1918) The flora of the American Virgin Islands (1918) Descriptions of Cuban plants new to science (1920) The Bahama flora (1920) With Charles Frederick Millspaugh. Neoabbottia, a new cactus genus from Hispaniola (1921) The Cactaceae (1919 - 1923) online References External links New York Botanical Garden bio of Britton National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1859 births 1934 deaths American mycologists Bryologists Pteridologists Botanists active in the