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Ashe. William Willard Ashe. United States. Botanist, 

 North Carolina Geological Survey. 



Aust. Coe Finch Austin, 1831-1880. United States. Curator 

 of the Herbarium at Columbia University. Student espe- 

 cially of North American mosses. 



Ave-Lallemant. See Lall. 



Bab. Charles Cardale Babington. England. Prof, of Botany 



at Cambridge University. Author of a manual of British 



botany, published 1843, etc. 



Bailey. Liberty liyde Bailey. United States. Director of 

 the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Author 

 of studies of the genus Carex and of many works relating 

 to horticulture. 



Baker. John Gilbert Baker. England. Formerly Keeper of 

 the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Balbis. Giovanni Battista Balbis, 1765-1831. Italy. Prof, at 

 Turin. 



Ball. Carleton Roy Ball. United States. Agronomist in the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Banks. Joseph Banks, 1743-1820. England. President of 

 the Royal Society. Explorer, and generous patron of 

 science. 



Barneoud. F. Marius Barneoud. France. Author of a mono- 

 graph of the Plantaginaceae, published 1845. 



Barnh. John Hendley Barnhart. United States. Librarian, 



New York Botanical Garden. 

 Barratt. Joseph Barratt, 1707-1882. United States. Student 



chiefly of willows and sedges. 

 Bart., Barton. William Paul Crillon Barton, 1787-1856. 



United States. Prof, at the University of Pennsylvania. 



Author of Compendium Florae Philadelphicae, and of a 



flora of North America. 

 Bartlett. Harley Harris Bartlett. United States. 

 B. D. Greene. Benjamin D. Greene, 1793-1863. United 



States. 

 Beauv. Ambroise Marie Francois Joseph Palisot de Beauvois, 



1755-1820. France. Author of a great work on grasses. 



Beck. Lewis Caleb Beck, 1798-1853. United States. Prof. 



at various colleges. Author of Botany of the Northern 



and Middle States. 

 Beeby. William Hadden Beeby. England. 

 Benn. Arthur Bennett. England. 



