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EXPLANATIONS 



Sweet. RoU-rt Sweot, 178.V1S.15, author of niuiiy well- 

 kiionn works, jis "C"ipr!iniiu"i-a>," "British Flower Gar- 

 den." 



Swindle. Waller T.SwiiiKlo, Tnited States Depart- 

 ment of .Xcrieiilliire. \Va.'<liiiiu;ton. 



T.M-scH. Isnaz Kriedrieh Tanseli. Died 1S4S. .Vustria. 



Tenore. Miehele Tenore, 17S0-1.S()1. Italy. 



Thore. Jean Tliorc, 1702-l.Si;;i, physician at Dax. 



Tai-NB. Carl Peter Thnnhers, 1743-1822, WTote "Flora 

 Japonira" (17S4V Sweden. 



Tod. .AuRUstino Todaro. director of the botanic gartlcna 

 at Palermo. 1S1S-1S92. 



ToRR. John Torrey, 1790-1873. New York, 



TR.\trrv. Ernst Rudolph von Trautvetter. 



Trel. William Trelease, professor of botany. Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. 



TucKM. Edward Tuekerman, 1817-1886. Massachusetts. 



TvRCZ. Nieolaus Turezaninow. Died 1864. 



L'nderw. Prof. Lueien M. Underwood, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York, N. Y., has written much on ferns, 

 etc. 



Urb.\n. Ignatius Urban, of the Kiingl. Bot. Garten, near 

 Berlin, writer on Brazilian and West Indian plants. 



V.\HL. Martin Vahl. 1749-1804. Denmark. 



V.\N HouiTE. Louis Van Houtte, 1810-1876, founder 

 and publisher of Flore des Serrps. 



Veitch. John Gould Veitch, 1839-1867, and successors, 

 horticulturists at Chelsea, England. 



Vent. Etiennc Pierre Vcntenat, 1757-1808. France. 



Verl. B. Vcrlot, contributor to Rc\-ue Horticole. 



Versch. Ambroise VerschafiVlt, 1825-1886, founder and 

 publisher of L'lllustr.ation Horticole at Ghent, Belgium. 



ViLL. Dominique Villars, 1745-1814. France. 



ViLM. Several generations of the family of Vilmorin, 

 Paris, seed.smen and authors of many books and 

 memoirs on botany and horticulture. Pierre Philippe 

 Andrfe Leveque de Vilmorin, 1746-1804. Pierre Vil- 

 morin, 1816-1860. Henry L. de Vilmorin, died 1899. 



\'oss. A. Voss, author of botanical part of Vilmorin's 



Bluniengiirtnerei. 

 Waul. Georg Wahlenberg, 1781-1851. Sweden. 

 W.\LDST. Franz .\dani. Graf von Waldstein, 1759-1823. 



Axistria. 

 W.vLL. Nathaiuu'l Wallich, liorn 1786, Copenhagen, died 



1854 London. Wrote on plants of India and Asia. 

 Walp. Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, 1816-1853. 

 Walt. Thomas Walter, about 1740-1788, author of 



"Flora Caroliniana." Soiith Carolina. 

 W.^NG. Friedrich -Vdani Julius von Wangenheim, 1747- 



1800. Germany. 

 W.\NGN. Walter Wangerin, monographer of Cornacese. 



Germanj-. 

 Warscz. Joseph Warscewicz, 1812-1866. 

 W.\Ts. Sercno Wat.son, 1826-1892. Harvard University. 

 Web. Friedrich Weber, 1781-L823. Germany. 

 Wedd. H. A. Weddell, wrote for De CandoUe's "Pro- 



dromus," vol. 16, etc. 

 Welw. Friedrich Welwitsch, 1806-1872. 

 Wendl. Hermann Wendland, Director Royal Botanic 



Garden at Herrenhaiisen, one of the chief writers on 



palms. 

 Wight. Robert Wight, writer on Indian plants. 1796- 



1872. 

 WiLLD. Karl Ludwig Willdenow, 1765-1812. Germany. 

 Wilson. Ernest H. Wilson, collector of Chinese plants. 

 With., Wither. William Withering, 1741-1799. Eng- 

 land. 

 WiTTM. Max Karl Ludwig Wittmack, editor of Gar- 



tenflora. Professor at Berlin. 

 Wood. Alphonso Wood, 1810-1881. Of his "Class-Book 



of Botany," 100,000 copies have been sold in 



America. 

 Zabel. Hermann Zabel, writer on woody plants, 1832- 



1912. Germany. 

 Zucc. Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, 1797-1848, professor 



at -Munich. 



