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Benth. George Bentham, 1800-1884. England. Author or 

 joint author of many important botanical works. 



Berchtold. Friedrich, Graf von Berchtold, b. 1780. Bohemia. 



Bergius. Peter Jonas Bergius, 1730-1790. Sweden. 



Bernh. Johann Jacob Bernhardi, 1774-1850. Germany. Prof. 



of Botany at Erfurt. 

 Bess. Wilhelm S. J. G. von Besser, 1784-1842. Austria. 

 Betcke. Ernst Friedrich Betcke. Germany. Author of a 



work on the genus Valerianella, published 1826. 



Beyrich. Karl Bey rich, d. 1834. Germany. 



Bicknell. Eugene Pintard Bicknell. United States. Author 

 of many articles on North American plants. 



Bieb. Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, 1768- 

 1826. Germany and Russia. Author of works on the flora 

 of Southern Russia. 



Bigel. Jacob Bigelow, 1787-1879. United States. Author of 

 Florula Bostoniensis. and of a Medical Botany. 



Bisch., Bischofif. Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoflf, 1797-1854. 

 Germany. Prof, of Botany at Heidelberg. 



Bissell. Charles Humphrey Bissell. United States. 



Blanchard. William Henry Blanchard. United States. 



Blume. Karl Ludwig Blume, 1796-1862. Holland. Director 



of the Royal Herbarium at Leyden. Author of a great 



flora of Java. 



Blytt. Matthias Numsen Blytt, 1789-1862. Norway. Prof, 

 of Botany at Christiania. Author of a flora of Norway. 



Boeckl. Johann Otto Boeckeler, 1803-1899. Germany. 

 Writer on Cyperaceae. 



Boehm. Georg Rudolf Boehmer, 1 723-1 803. Germany. Prof. 

 at Wittenberg. (Boehineria Jacq.) 



Boenn. Clemens Maria Friedrich von Boenninghausen, 1785- 

 1864. Germany. 



Boiss. Edmond Boissier, 1810-1885. Switzerland. Author 

 of a Flora Orientalis, various studies of the genus Euphor- 

 bia, etc. 



Bonpland. See HBK. 



Boott. Francis Boott, 1792-1863. United States and England. 



Author of a great work on the genus Carcx. See also W. 



Boott. . 

 Borkh. Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, 1760-1806. Germany. 

 Bosc. Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, 1759-1828. France. 

 Bosch. Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch, 1810-1862. Holland. 



