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Karst. Hermann Gustav Karl Wilhelm Karsten, 1817-1908. 



Austria and Germany. Prof, at Vienna. 

 Ker. John Bellenden Ker, i765(?)-i87i. England. 

 Kitaibel. See W. & K. 

 K. Koch. See Koch. 



Knight. Ora Willis Knight. United States. 

 Koch. Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, 1809-1879. Germany. 



Prof, at Berlin. 

 Koehne. Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne. Germany. Prof. 



at Berlin. Dendrologist; author of a monograph of the 



Lythraceae of the United States. 

 Koeler. Georg Ludwig Koeler, d. 1807. Germany. Prof. 



at Mainz. 



Kuhn. Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn, 1842-1894. 



Germany. Writer on ferns. 

 Kunth. Karl Sigismund Kunth, 1788-1850. Germany. Prof. 



at Berlin. Author of Enumeratio Plantarum, a work 



designed to supplement the Prodromus, Revisio Graminum, 



etc. See also HBK. 

 Kuntze. Karl Ernst Otto Kuntze, 1843-1907. Germany. 



Author of Revisio Generum Plantarum, a work chiefly 



nomenclatorial. 



L. Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne), 1707-1778. Sweden. 

 Prof, of Botany at Upsala. The " Father of Botany." 

 Inventor of the binomial system of nomenclature. His 

 Species Plantarum is accepted as the basis of modern 

 descriptive botany. {Linnaea Gronov.) 



Laestad. Lars Levi Laestadius, b. 1800. Lapland. 



Lag. Mariano Lagasca, 1776-1839. Spain. Wrote on Mexican 

 and Spanish plants. 



Lall. Julius Leopold Eduard Ave-Lallemant, 1803-1867. 

 Germany. 



Lam. Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre Monnet de Lamarck, 

 1744-1829. France. Distinguished naturalist and philos- 

 opher; author of a theory of organic evolution which 

 anticipated Darwin's. 



Lamotte. Martial Lamotte. France. 



Lamson-Scribner. See Scribn. 



Lange. Johan Martin Christian Lange, 1818-1898. Denmark. 

 Prof, of Botany at Copenhagen. 



Le Conte. John Eaton Le Conte, 1784-1860. United States. 

 Author of papers on various genera of North American 

 plants. 



