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.
Britton, Nathaniel; Addison Brown (1896). 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. Volume I, Ophioglossaceae to Aizoaceae. Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 612.
Britton, Nathaniel; Addison Brown (1898). 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. Volume III, Apocynacea to Compositae; Dogbane to Thistle. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 643 pages. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
Britton, Nathaniel; Addison Brown (1913). 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. Volume II, Amaranthaceae to Loganiaceae. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 2052 pages. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
Britton, Nathaniel Lord; Addison Brown (1913). 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. Volume III Gentianaceae to Compositae -- Gentian to Thistle (Second Edition -- Revised and Enlarged ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
Britton, Nathaniel; Joseph Nelson Rose (1922). The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family. Carnegie Institution for Science. p. 263 pages. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
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
With Henry Hurd Rusby he issued the exsiccata Plantae Bolivianae a Miguel Bang lectae.
