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mind which went beyond mere descriptions and inquired into 
causes as well as results. His work was not solely for the scien- 
tific world; he was for many years botanist to the State Board of 
Agriculture and an editor of an agricultural paper. His popular 
articles on the grasses of the South are of special interest and 
value, for he devoted much attention to these plants and appre- 
ciated their agricultural importance. He is spoken of as having 
been a man whose life was full of kindness to all about him and an 
example of what a botanist should be. 
Among the Southern botanists who have worked in this field 
and become identified with Southern plants are many who have 
_attained distinction through their labors, but of whom I have not 
the time to speak. I must, however, mention the names of Lind- 
heimer and Fendler, whose collections have become classical 
through the publication of Engelmann and Gray; of William F. 
Feay, of Georgia, whose devotedness to botany led to a number 
of interesting discoveries; of Prof. John L. Riddell, who for many 
years resided at Mobile, and whose name is indelibly associated 
with botany through the genus Riddellia; of S. B. Buckley, who 
discovered and published many new species of Southern plants, 
and for whom Buckleya distichophylla, a graceful Santalaceous 
shrub of the mountains of North Carolina was named; of Dr. C. 
W. Short, of Kentucky, justly famous in his time and whose ser- 
vices were recognized by Dr. Gray in that extremely rare plant 
found only near Roan Mt., Shortia galacifolia; of John Williamson, 
of Kentucky, the artist botanist whose “Fern Etchings’’ gained 
him a world-wide reputation; of Le Conte, of Georgia, who mono- 
graphed our species of the genus Paspalum; and lastly, but by 
no means least, of Dr. Engelman, of St. Louis, Mo., whose botanical 
Works placed him in the first rank of men of science and whose 
publications will always be essential to every working botanist. 
Passing over these thus briefly, we come to those who are yet 
living and still active in the cause. 
We cannot omit speaking of Judge M. Thomas Peters, of 
Moulton, Ala., although he is no longer actively engaged in 
botany, Judge Peters was one of the first to draw the attention 
of botanists to the ferns of his State and was the discoverer of that 
beautiful little species named in his honor, Zyichomanes Petersii. — 
