Works

• 1879: The geological formations crossed by the Syracuse and Chenango Valley Railroad, Ph. D. thesis for Syracuse University. (external scan)

• 1880: "Artificial Synopses," Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 7 : 86-89.

• 1881: "The Ferns of New York State," Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 8 : 78-79.

• 1881: "Onoclea sensibilis L. var. obtusilobata," Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 8 : 101-102.

• 1881: Our native ferns and how to study them; with synoptical descriptions of the North American species. (external scan)

• 1884: Descriptive catalogue of North American Hepaticae, north of Mexico. (external scan)

• 1886: List of the described species of fresh water Crustacea from America, north of Mexico. (external scan)

• 1888: Our native ferns and their allies: with synoptical descriptions of the American Pteridophyta north of Mexico (1st ed.). (external scan)

• 1891: The ancestry and descendants of Jonathan Pollard (1759-1821) with records of allied families. (external scan)

• 1893: The Myriapoda of North America.

• 1898: "American Ferns I.  The ternate species of Botrychium." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 25 : 521–541.

• 1899: "American Ferns II.  The genus Phanerophlebia." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 26 : 205–216, pl. 359, 360.

• 1899: Moulds, mildews, and mushrooms; a guide to the systematic study of the Fungi and Mycetozoa and their literature. (external scan)

• 1900: Our native ferns and their allies, with synoptical descriptions of the American Pteridophyta north of Mexico, (6th ed.).

• 1902: "American Ferns III.  Our genera of Aspidieae." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 29 : 121–136.

• 1902: "American Ferns IV.  The genus Gymnogramme of the Synopsis Filicum." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 29 :

• 1902: "American Ferns V.  A review of the genus Danaea." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 29 : 669–679.

• 1903: "An Index to the described Species of Botrychium" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 30 : 43.

• 1903: "The genus Riella, with descriptions of new species from North America and the Canary Islands". (coauthor: Marshall Avery Howe) Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 30: 214-224; pls. xi-xii.

• 1906: "American Ferns VI.  Species added to the flora of the United States from 1900 to 1905." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33 : 189–205.

• 1906: "American Ferns VII.  The American species of Stenochlaena & The status of Poecilopteris crenata Presl." in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33 : 591–605.

• 1907: The progress of our knowledge of the flora of North America, reprinted from Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 70, with additional paragraphs included.

• 1913: The Underwood families of America.

• 1913: Text for the Pteridophyta section of An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions by Nathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown.

For a more extensive list containing 212 publications by the author, see "The published work of Lucien Marcus Underwood" (also listed below).

Works about Underwood

• "Underwood, Lucien Marcus," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Prof. Underwood Commits Suicide," The New York Times. Nov. 17, 1907, pp. 1-2.
• "Report of the death of Lucien M. Underwood," Danbury Evening News, Danbury, Conn, Nov, 18, 1907.
• "A biographical sketch of Lucien Marcus Underwood," by Carlton Clarence Curtis, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 35 : 1-12. (1908)
• "Lucien Marcus Underwood: a memorial tribute", by Marshall Avery Howe, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 35 : 13-16. (1908)
• "The published work of Lucien Marcus Underwood", by John Hendley Barnhart, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 35 : 17-38. (1908)