ABBREVIATIONS 



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

 Scotland. 



Don. George Don, 1798-lS."iG. 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, 1707-1878. 

 Belgium. 



DUNAL. Michel Felix Dunal, 1789-1856. France. 



Dyer. W. T. Thi.stleton-Dyer. Director of Kew Gar- 

 dens, present editor of the Flora of Tropical Africa, 



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

 of Botany for North America, 1st ed. 1817, Sth ed. 

 1841. 



Eaton, D. C. Daniel Cady Eaton, Prof, at Yale Col- 

 lege, and writer on fem.s. 



Ehrh. Friedrich Ehrhart, 1742-1793. Germany. 



Ell. Stephen Elliott, 1771-18.30. South Carolina. 



Ellis. John Ellis, 1711-1770. England. 



Endl. Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, 1804-1849, Prof, 

 at Vienna. Numerous works. 



Engelm. George Engelmann, 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. 



FisCH. Friedrich Ernst Ludwigvon Fischer, 1782-1854. 

 Russia. 



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

 fers, and other plants at Woburn Abbey. 



FORSK. Pehr Forskal, 173G-1768, collected in Egypt 

 and Arabia. 



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

 (Also Georg Forster, the son.) 



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

 1785-9G. Had a son of same name. 



Prcel. Joseph Aloys Froelich, 17GG-1841. Germany. 



P. 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. 



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



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

 Breslau. Wrote much on fossil botany. 



GoRD. George Gordon, 1806-1879, author of the Pine- 

 tum, London, 1858. 



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

 Massachusetts. America'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, 181 1- . Germany. 



Hayne. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, 170.3-1832, Prof, at 

 Berlin. Medicinal plants; trees and shrubs. 



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



HBK. Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1796-1859. 

 Germ.any. Aim^ Bonpland, 177.3-1858. France. Karl 

 Sigismund Kuuth, 1788-1850. Germany. Authors of 

 a great work on plants of the New World. 



Hemsi.. W. Rotting Hemsley, Keeper at Kew, has 

 wi'Mrt, hi II: rrviews of genera of horticultural 

 » ' ' lii-on. and elsewhere. 



Ill 1^ " . : I. II. rl.prt, 1778-1847. England. 



H... ii-r Lin i:!;iii 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. Hortorum, literally of the gardens. Placed af- 

 ter names current among horticulturists, but not 

 necessarily ;dl horticulturists. Often used with less 

 exactness than names of authors. Frequently in- 

 dicates giinlon or unknown origin. Many of these 

 plants have never been sufficiently described. 



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



Juss. Antoine Laure:it Jussieu, 1748-1830, the fir.st to 

 introduce the natural families of plants. Prance. 



Karw. Wilhelm Karwinsky von Karwin, d. 1853, col- 

 lector in Brazil. 



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

 1830. He described the ferns collected by Chamisso. 



Ker. John Bellenden Ker, 17G5 (!)-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 Eihvar.ls' 

 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 

 Begoniacefe. 



Koch. Karl Koch, 1809-1879. Germany. 



KOEHNE. Eniil Koehne, Prof, at Berlin. Pub. Deutsche 

 DendroluL-ir. 



KoTSCHY. 'I'iii -ill .!■ I\"t-i liy, Asst. curator at Vienna, 

 181.3-18r.h. \Vr..;. -II .iii.-ntal plants. 



Kraxzl. F. KraiizliTi, I'.niin, writes on orchids in The 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. 



KuNTH. See HBK. 



Lag. Mariano Lagasca. 177G-1839, one of Spain's most 

 distinguislic.l liMtani-ts. 



Lam. Jean l;:[iiti-ii Ant line Pierre Monnet Lamarck, 

 1744-182'.t. ail hur uf the Lamarckian philosophy of 

 organic ev.jkniuu. 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. 



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

 Ferrand, wrote an elementary botany, a dictionary 

 of botanical terms, a book on hybridization, etc. 



LeCoste. John Eaton LeConte. 1784-18110. Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



