Charles Edward Faxon

Charles Edward Faxon (January 21, 1846 – February 6, 1918) was an American botanical player and hypothetical of botany born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The normal author abbreviation Faxon is used to indicate this person as the author following citing a botanical name.

In 1867 he standard his degree in civil engineering from Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge. From 1879 to 1884, he taught classes in botany at the Bussey Institute.

Faxon was knowledgeable in regards to the flora of New England, and in 1882 joined the staff at the Arnold Arboretum. Here he took exploit of spread of the herbarium and library. He worked to the side of with Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the director of the arboretum.

Faxon created 744 plates for illustration of Sargent's "Silva of North America". In adjunct to these drawings, he provided the illustrative accomplish for the next publications by Sargent: