ABBREVIATIONS 



U. Don. David Don, brother of George, 1800-1841 



Scotland. 

 Don. George Don, 1798-1856. England. 

 DONN. James Donn, 1758-1813, author of Hortus Can 



tabrigiensis. England. 

 Douglas. David Douglas, 1799-18^4, collector in north 



western America. Scotland. 

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

 Duchesne. Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, 1747-1827, 



France. 

 DuMORT. Barth^lemy Charles Dumortier, 1797-1878 



Belgium. 

 DuNAL. Michel Felix Dunal, 1789-1850. France. 

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



dens, present editor of the Flora of Tropical Africa, 



etc. 

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



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



1841. 

 Eaton, D. C. Daniel Cady Eaton, Prof, 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, Prof. 



at Vienna. Numerous worlts. 

 Engelsi. George Engelraann, 1809-1884. Missouri. 

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



Engler and Prantl's Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien. 

 F. C. Lehm. See Lehm., F. C. 

 Fee. Antoine Laurent Apollinaire F^e, 1789-1874. 



France. 

 PisOH. Friedrich Ernst Ludwigvon Fischer, 1782-1854. 



Russia. 

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

 fers, and other plants at Woburn Abbey. 

 Forsk. Pehr Porskal, 1736-1768, collected in Egypt 



and Arabia. 

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



(Also Georg Forster, the son.) 

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



1785-96. Had a son of same name. 

 Frcel. Joseph Aloys Froelich, 1760-1841. 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. 

 Gaud. Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre, 1789-1864. 



France. 

 Gawl. See Ker. 



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

 GoEPP. Heinrich Robert Goeppert, 1800-1884, Prof, at 



Breslau. Wrote much on fossil botany. 

 GORD. George Gordon, 180G-1879, author of the Pine- 



tum, London, 1858. 

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



Massachusetts. Amei-ica's most noted botanist. 

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

 versity on Mexican plants. 

 Griseb., Gris. Heinrich Rudolph August Grisebach, 



1814-1879. Germany. 

 Hassk. Justus Karl Hasskarl, 1811- . Germany. 

 Hatne. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, 1763-1832, Prof, at 



Berlin. Medicinal plants; trees and shrubs. 



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



HBK. Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1796-1859. 

 Germany. Aim(! Bonpiand, 177.3-1858. France. Karl 

 Sigismund Kunth, 1788-1850. Germany. Authors of 

 a great work on plants of the New World. 



Hemsl. W. Bolting Hemsley, Keeper at Kew, has 

 written many reviews of genera of horticultural 

 value in Gard. Chron. and elsewhere. 



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- 

 England. 



HoRT. Hortorura, literally of the gardens. Placed af- 

 ter names current among horticulturists, but not 

 necessarily all horticulturists. Often used with less 

 exactness than names of authors. Frequently in- 

 dicates garden or unknown origin. Many of these 

 plants have never been sufficiently described. 



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



Juss. Antoine Laurent Jussieu, 1748-1836, the flr.st to 

 introduce the natural families of plants. France. 



Karw. Wilhelm Karwinsky von Karwin, d. 1855, col- 

 lector in Brazil. 



Kaulf. Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss, Prof, at Halle, d. 

 1830. He described the ferns collected by Chamisso. 



Ker. John Bellenden 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 Rev. His name was changed in 

 1804 to John Ker Bellenden, but he was known to his 

 friends as Bellenden Ker. First editor of Edwards' 

 Botanical Register. 



Ker-Gawl. See Ker. 



Klatt. Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt, a contemporaneous 

 botanist. Germany. 



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

 rator of Royal herbarium at Berlin, monographer of 

 Begoniaceaa. 



Koch. Karl Koch, 1809-1879. Germany. 



KoEHNE. Emil Koehne, Prof . at Berlin. Pub. Deutsche 

 Dendrologie. 



KoTSCHV. Theodor Kotschy, Asst. curator at Vienna, 

 1813-1860. Wrote on oriental plants. 



Kranzl. F. Kranzlin, Berlin, writes on orchids in The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Kunth. See HBK. 



Lag. Mariano Lagasca, 1776-1839, one of Spain's most 

 distinguished botanists. 



Lam. Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre Monnet Lamarck, 

 1744-1829, author of the Lamarckian philosophy of 

 organic evolution. France. 



Langs. Georg Heinrich von Langsdorf, 1774-1852, 

 Russian consul-general in Brazil. 



Lauth. Thomas Lauth, 1758-1826, Prof, of Anatomy 

 at Strassburg, wrote a 40-page monograph on Acer 

 in 1781. 



Lecq. Henry Lecoq, b. 1802, once Prof, at Clermont- 

 Ferrand, wrote an elementary botany, a dictionary 

 of botanical terms, a book on hybridization, etc. 



LeConte. John Eaton LeConte, 17S4-18G0. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



