Sereno Watson FAAAS,NAS
Born	December 1, 1826 East Windsor Hill,Connecticut
Died	March 9, 1892(1892-03-09) (aged 65) Cambridge,Massachusetts
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Botanist
Known for	Gray Herbarium curator
Botanistauthor abbreviation	S.Watson

Sereno WatsonFAAAS,NAS (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an Americanbotanist.

Watson was born on December 1, 1826, inEast Windsor Hill,Connecticut.

Graduating fromYale in 1847 in biology, he drifted through various occupations until, in California, he joined theClarence King Expedition and eventually became its expedition botanist.

Appointed byAsa Gray as assistant in theGray Herbarium ofHarvard University in 1873, he later became itscurator, a position he maintained until his death.^[1] Watson was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874,^[2] and a member of theNational Academy of Sciences in 1889.^[3]

He died on March 9, 1892, inCambridge, Massachusetts.

The standardauthor abbreviationS.Watson is used to indicate this person as the author whenciting abotanical name.^[4]

• Botany, inReport of the geological exploration of the 40th parallel made ... by Clarence King, 1871
• Watson, Sereno (1879)."Revision of the North American Liliaceae: Descriptions of Some New Species of North American Plants".Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.XIV:213–312.doi:10.2307/25138538.JSTOR 25138538. RetrievedJanuary 6, 2014.
• Watson, Sereno, ed. (1880).Botany of California, Vol. 2. Geological Survey of California. Cambridge, Mass: John Wilson and Son. RetrievedFebruary 10, 2025.
• Publications by and about S. Watsonon WorldCat

• Biographical sketch at the Gray Herbarium site
• Biographical memoir, National Academy of Sciences
• Obituary, page 441
• Portrait (plate VI) and obituary byJohn Merle Coulter (137–141)
• Sereno Watson atFind a Grave

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