

ASA GRAY 



Born at Sauquoit, N.Y., 1810; died at Cambridge, Mass., 

 1888. The first great American botanist, and one of the 

 greatest botanists of his time in any country. His Manual 

 of Botany (several times revised) has been for many years 

 the leading authority in the identification of the seed plants 

 and ferns of the northern and eastern United States and 

 of Canada. 



