Sereno Watson

Sereno Watson was an American botanist. He graduated from the Yale in 1847. Soon after his graduation, he went from job to job, until he joined the Clarence King expedition, and eventually became the botanist of the expedition. In 1873, Asa Gray appointed Watson as assistant in Gray's herbarium in Harvard University. He eventually became the curator, and kept his position until his death in 1892.

When citing a botanical name, Sereno Watson is abbreviated as S.Watson.