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KER John Bellenden Ker (or Gawler) ? -1871. England. 

 KLATT Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt, a contemporaneous botanist. Ger- 

 many. 



KOCH Karl Koch, 1809-1879. Germany. 

 KUNTH See HBK. 

 LAM. Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre Monnet Lamarck, 1744-1829, 



author of the Lamarckian philosophy of organic evolution. France. 

 LE CONTE John Eaton Le Conte, 1784-1860. Pennsylvania. 

 LEDEB. Karl Friedrich von Ledebour, 1785-1851. Russia. 

 LEHM. Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, 1792-1860. Germany. 

 LEM. Charles Lemaire, 1800-1871. Belgium. 

 L'HER. C. L. L'Heritier de Brutelle, 1746-1800. France. 

 LINDEN J. Linden, 1817- . Belgium. 

 LINDL. John Lindley, 1799-1865. England. 

 LINK Heinrich Friedrich Link, 1767-1851. Germany. 

 LINN. Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne"), 1707-1778, the "Father of 



Botany," and author of binomial nomenclature. Sweden. 

 LINN, f . Carl von Linne", the son, 1741-1783. Sweden. 

 LODD. Conrad Loddiges, nurseryman near London, in the early part of 



this century. 

 LOISEL. Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, 1774-1849. 



France. 



LOUR. Juan Loureiro, 1715-1796, Missionary in China. Portugal. 

 MARSH. Humphrey Marshall, 1722-1801. Pennsylvania. 

 MAXIM. Karl Johann Maximowicz, 1827-1891. Russia. 

 MEISN. Karl Friedrich Meisner (or Meissner) , 1800-1874. Switzerland. 

 MET. Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer, 1791-1851. Prussia. 

 MICHX. Andre" Michaux, 1746-1802. France, but for ten years a resident 



in North America. 



MICHX. f. Francois Andre" Michaux, the son, 1770-1855. France. 

 MILL. Phillip Miller, 1691-1771. Garden-author of Chelsea, England. 

 MIQ. Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, 1811-1871. Holland. 

 MOENCH Konrad Moench, 1744-1805. Germany. 

 MOQ. Alfred Moquin-Tandon, 1804-1863. France. 

 MUHL. Henry Ludwig Muhlenberg, 1756-1817. Pennsylvania. 

 MURR. Johann Andreas Murray, 1740-1791. Germany. 

 NEES. Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck, 1776-1858. Prussia. 

 NUTT. Thomas Nuttall, 1786-1859. Massachusetts. 

 ORTEGA, ORT. Casimiro Gomez Ortega, 1740-1818. Spain. 

 OTTO Friedrich Otto, 1782-1856. Germany. 

 PALL. Peter Simon Pallas, 1741-1811, professor and explorer in Russia. 



Germany. 



PAXT. Joseph Paxton, 1802-1865. England. 

 PERS. Christian Hendrick Persoon, 1755-1837. Germany. 

 PLANCH. Jules Emile Planchon, Professor at Montpellier. France. 

 POIR. Jean Louis Marie Poiret, 1755-1834. France. 

 PRESL Karel Boriwog Presl, 1794-1852. Bohemia. 

 PURSH Fredrick T. Pursh, 1774-1820. Siberia, but for twelve years 



a resident in the United States. 

 RADDI Giuseppe Raddi, 1770-1829. Italy. 

 RAF. Constantino Samuel Rafmesque- Schmaltz, 1784-1842, Professor 



of Natural History at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. 

 R. BR. Robert Brown, 1773-1858. England. 



REICH. Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, 1793-1879. Germany. 

 RICH. John Richardson, 1787-1865. Scotland. 

 RICHARD Louis Claude Marie Richard, 1754-1821. France. 

 RIDDELL John Leonard Riddell, 1807-1865, Professor of Chemistry in 



Cincinnati and New Orleans. Massachusetts. 



