Frank Shipley Collins (1848–1920) was an American

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and algologist specializing in the study of

marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

algae Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...

.Makers of American Botany,

Harry Baker Humphrey Harry Baker Humphrey (1873–1955) was an American botanist.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 He was a pathologist with the USDA, specializing on research on breeding resi ...

, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 He was a pioneer in the study of the distribution of algae on the Atlantic seaboard and Bermudas and was the leading American algologist of his time. He wrote ''

The Green Algae of North America ''The Green Algae of North America'' is an influential early book on American green algae written by algologist Frank Shipley Collins. It was published in 1909 by Tufts College.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, ...

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Working Key to the Genera of North American Algae ''Working Key to the Genera of North American Algae'' is an influential early technical reference book on identification of algae in North America. It was written by Frank Shipley Collins, and published in 1918.Makers of American Botany, Harry Bak ...

''. Several species bear his name in his honor, including ''

Collinsiella tuberculata ''Collinsiella tuberculata'' is a species of green algae. It is in the genus ''Collinsiella'' of the family Gomontiaceae. It was named in honor of algologist Frank Shipley Collins.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey Harry Baker Hump ...

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green algae The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...

in the order

Ulotrichales Ulotrichales is an order of green algae in the class Ulvophyceae.See the NCBIbr>webpage on Ulotrichales Data extracted from the Genera unplaced to family (''incertae sedis''): *'' Trichosarcina'' Families * '' Binucleariaceae'' * '' Collins ...

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Phaeosaccion collinsii ''Phaeosaccion'' is a genus of algae with monostromatic tubular to saccate thalli, up to long and to wide. It is the sole genus in the family Phaeosaccionaceae. It is olive brown and resembles young plants of ''Scytosiphon''. The sole species i ...

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* * American botanists 1840s births 1920 deaths American phycologists {{US-botanist-stub