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DIPP. Dr. L. Dippcl, of Darmstadt, Germany. Den- 

 drologist; pub. "Handbuch der Laubholzkunde." 



DON. George Don, 1798-1856. England. 



DON, D. David Don, brother of George, 1800-1841. 

 Scotland. 



DONN. James Doiiu, 1758-1813, author of "Hortus Can- 

 tabrigiensis." England. 



DOUGLAS. David Douglas, 1799-1834, collector in north- 

 western America. Scotland. 



DRCDE. Prof. O. Drude, of Dresden, Germany. 



DRY. Jonas Dryandcr, 1748-1810. Sweden. 



PICHESNE. Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, 1747-1827. 

 France. 



DUMORT. Barthelcmy Charles Dumortier, 1797-1878. 

 Belgium. 



LH-NAL. Michel Felix Dunal, 1789-1856. France. 



DVNN. Stephen Troyte Dunn, Kcw, England. 



DYER. W. T. Thistleton-Dyer, Director of Kew Gar- 

 dens, 1885-1905, editor of the Flora of Tropical Africa, 

 etc. 



EATON, A. Amos Eaton, 1776-1842, author of a "Manual 

 of Botany for North America," 1st ed. 1817; 8th ed. 

 1841. 



EATON, D. C. Daniel Cady Eaton, professor at Yale Col- 

 lege, and writer on ferns. 



EHRH. Friedrich Ehrhart, 1742-1795. Germany. 



ELL. Stephen Elliott, 1771-1830. South Carolina. 



ELLIS. John Ellis, 1711-1776. England. 



ENDL. Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, 1804-1849, profes- 

 sor at Vienna. Numerous works. 



ENGELM. George Engelmann, 1809-1884. Missouri. 



ENULER. Prof. A. Engler, of Berlin, joint author of 

 Engler and Prantl's "Natilrlichen Pflanzenfamilien." 



ESCH. Johann Friedrick Esohseholz, 1793-1831. Germany. 



FEE. Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fee, 1789-1874. 

 France. 



FENZL. Edward Feiizl, professor and custodian of botani- 

 cal museum at Wiens. 1S08-1879. 



FERN. Merritt Lyndon Fernald, assistant professor of 

 botany, Cambridge, Mass. 



FISCH. Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, 1782-1854. 

 Russia. 



FORB. John Forbes, catalogued heaths, willows, coni- 

 fers, and other plants at Woburn Abbey. 



FORSK. Pehr Forskal, 1736-1768, collected in Egypt 

 and Arabia. 



FORST. Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798. Germany. 

 (Also Georg Forster, the son.) 



FRANCH. A. Franchet, Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 1834- 

 1900. 



FRASER, John Fraser, 1750-1811, traveled in America 

 1785-96. Had a son of same name. 



FROEL. Joseph Aloys Froelich, 1766-1841. Germany. 



F. v. M. Ferdinand von Mueller, royal botanist of 

 Australia, author of many works on economic plants. 

 See Muell. 



GAERTN. Joseph Gaertner, 1732-1791. Germany. 



GAGNEP. Francois Gagnepain. French botanist, writing 

 chiefly on Asiatic plants. 



GAUD. Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre, 1789-1864. Prance. 



r, A wL. See Ker. 



UMEL. Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, 1743-1774. Russia. 



GOEPP. Heinrich Robert Goeppert, 1800-1884, professor 

 at Breslau. Wrote much on fossil botany. 



GORD. George Gordon, 1806-1879, author of the "Pine- 

 turn," London, 1858. 



GRAEBN. Paul Graebner. professor of botany. Berlin. 



GRAY. Asa Gray, 1810-1888, Harvard University, Massa- 

 chusetts. America's most noted botanist. 



GREENM. J. M. Greenman, writes from Harvard Uni- 

 versity on Mexican plants. Now at the Field Museum, 

 Chicago. 



GRIFF. William Griffith, 1810-1845. England. 



GRISEB., GRIS. Heinrich Rudolph August Grisebach, 

 1814-1879. Germany. 



HARMS. Prof. Hermann Harms. Berlin. 



HASSK. Justus Karl Hasskarl, born 1811. Germany. 



HAYNE. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, 1763-1832, professor 

 at Berlin. Medicinal plants; trees and shrubs. 



HAW. Adrian Hardy Haworth, 1772-1833. England. 



HBK. Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1796-1859. 

 Germany. Aim6 Bonpland, 1773-1858. France. Karl 

 Sigismund Kunth, 1788-1850. Germany. Authors of 

 a j^-eat work on plants of the New World. 



HEMSL. W. Betting Hemsley, Keeper at Kew, has written 

 many reviews of genera of horticultural value in The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle and elsewhere. 



HENFB. Arthur Henfrey, 1819-1859. English botanist. 



HENRY. Augustine Henry, Collector of Chinese plants. 

 Cambridge, England. 



HENRY, L. Prof. Louis Henry. Writer on woody plants. 

 Paris. 



HERB. William Herbert, 1778-1847. England. 



HOCHST. Christian Friedrich Hochstetter, 1787-1860, 

 described many African plants. 



HOFFM. Georg Franz Hoffmann, 1761-1826. Germany. 



HOOK. William Jackson Hooker, 1785-1865. England. 



HOOK. f. Joseph Dalton Hooker, the son, 1817-1911. 

 England. 



HOHT. Hortorum, literally of the gardens. Placed after 

 names current among horticulturists, but not neces- 

 sarily all horticulturists. Often used with less exact- 

 ness than names of authors. Frequently indicates 

 garden or unknown origin. Many of these plants have 

 never been sufficiently described. 



HOST. Nicolaus Thomas Host, 1761-1834. Germany. 



JACQ. Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin, 1727-1817. Austria. 



JAUB. Hippolyte Francois de Jaubert. French botanist. 

 Born 1798. 



Jus. Antoine Laurent Jussieu, 1748-1836, the first to 

 introduce the natural families of plants. France. 



KARSTEN. Hermann G. K. W. Karsten. German botanist, 

 1817- 



KAHW. Wilhelm Karwinsky von Karwin, collector in 

 Brazil; died 1855. 



KACLF. Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss, professor at Halle; died 

 1830. He described the ferns collected by Chamisso. 



KER. John BeUenden Ker, 1765 (?)-1871, botanist, wit 

 and man of fashion. First known as John Gawler. 

 In 1793 was compelled to leave army because of sym- 

 pathy with French Revolution. Hia name was changed 

 in 1804 to John Ker BeUenden, but he was known to his 

 friends as BeUenden Ker. First editor of Edwards' 

 Botanical Register. 



KER-GAWL. See Ker. 



KIRCHN. G. Kirchner, writer of the botanical part of 

 "Arboretum Muscaviense." 



KLATT. Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt, a German botanist. 



KLOTZSCH. Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, 1805-1860, cu- 

 rator of Royal herbarium at Berlin, monographer of 

 Begoniaceffi. 



KOCH. Karl Koch, 1809-1879. Germany. 



KOEHNE. Emil Koehne, professor at Berlin. Pub. 

 "Deutsche Dendrologie." 



