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ABBREVIATIONS 



Raddi. Giuseppe Eaddi, 1770-1829. Italy. 



Baf. Constantino Samuel Raflnesque-Schmaltz, 1784r- 



1842. Prof, of Nat. Hist. Transylvania Univ., Lex- 

 ington, Ky. 

 R. Bk. Robert Brown, b. Scotland, 1773, d. London, 



1858. Author of many important works. 

 Rbgel. Eduard von Regel, 1815-1892, German, founder 



of Gartenflora; Dir. Bot. Garden at St. Petersburg. 

 Reich. Helnrioh Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, 1793- 



1879. Germany. 

 Reich, f. Heinrich Gustav, 1823-1889, son of the pre- 

 ceding. Orchids. 

 Rich. John Richardson, 1787-1865. Scotland. [France. 

 RiCHAKD. Louis Claude Marie Richard, 1754-1821. 

 RiDDELL. John Leonard Riddell, 1807-1865, Prof, of 



Chemistry in Cincinnati and New Orleans. 

 Rob. Dr. B. L. Robinson, Director Gray Herbarium of 



Harvard Univ., is editing The Synoptical Flora of 



North America. 

 Rod. Emile Rodigas, for some years connected with 



L'Ulustration Horticole. 

 RoEM. Johann Jacob Roemer, 1763-1819. Switzerland. 



Also M. J. Roemer. 

 ROSCOE. William Koscoe, 1753-1831. England. 

 Rose. J. N. Rose, Asst. Curator, U. S. Nat. Herb., 



Smithsonian Institution. Mexican plants. 

 Roth. Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, 1757-1834, Physician at 



Vegesack, near Bremen. 

 RoxBG. William Roxburgh, 1759-1815. India. 

 EoYLE. John Forbes Royle, b. 1800 at Cawnpore, d. 



London, 1858. Prof, in London. Plants of India. 

 Ruiz & Pav. Hipolito Ruiz Lopez, 1764-1815, and Jos6 



Pavon, authors of a Flora of Peru and Chile. Spain. 

 Rui'R. Franz J. Ruprecht, 1814-1870. Russia. 

 S. & Z. See Sieb. & Zucc. 



Sabise. Joseph Sabine, 1770-1837. England. [land. 

 Salisb. Richard Anthony Salisbury, 1761-1829. Eng- 

 Salm-Dtck. Joseph, Prince and High Count Salm- 



ReifEerscheidt-Dyck, b. at Dyck, 1773, d. 1861. Wrote 



on Aloe, Cactus, Mesembryanthemum. 

 .Sarg. Prof. Charles Sprague Sargent, Dir. Arnold 



Arboretum, author of Silva of North America. 

 Scheidw. Michael Joseph Scheidweiler, 1799-1861, 



Prof, of Bot. and Hort. at Hort. Inst, of Ghent. 

 ScHLECHT. Diedrich Franz Leonhard von Schlechten- 



dahl, 1794-1866. Prof, at Halle, wrote several memoirs 



in Latin and German. 

 ScHLDL. See Schlecht. 

 ScHOTT. Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, 1794-1865, wrote 



much on Aroids with Nyman and Kotschy. 

 ScHEAD. Heinrich Adolph Schrader, 1767-1836. Ger- 

 many. 

 ScHW., ScHWEiN. Lewis David von Schweinitz, 1780- 



1834. Pennsylvania. 

 JSi'HwEE. Graf Schwerin, German authority on Acer. 

 Scop. Johann Anton Scopoli, 1723-1788, Italy. 

 Seem. Berthold Seemann, Hanover, 1825-1872, wrote 



on palms, and botany of the voyage of the Herald. 

 SiBTH. John Sibthorp, 1758-1796, author of a Flora of 



Greece. England. 

 Sieb. & Zdcc. Philipp Franz von Siebold, 1790-1866, 



and Joseph Gerhard Zuocarini, 1797-1848. Ger- 

 many. 



SiEBEBT. A. Siebert, Dir. of the Palm Gard. at Frank- 

 furt, joint author of Vilmorin's Blumengartnerei. 



Sims. John Sims, 1792-1838. England, for many years 

 editor of Cui-tis' Botanical Magazine. 



Smith. James Edward Smith, 1759-1828. England. 



Sol., Soland. Daniel Solander, 1736-1782. England. 



Spaoh. Eduard Spach, b. Strassburg, 1801, d. 1879. 

 Author of Histoires Naturelle des Vegetaux. 



Spaeth. L. Spaeth, Berlin, nurseryman. 



Speeng. Kurt Sprengel, 1766-1833. Germany. 



Steud. Ernst Gottlieb Steudel, 1783-1856. Germany. 



Stev. Christian Steven, 1781-1863. Russia. 



St. Hil. Auguste de Saint Hilaire, 1779-1853. France. 



SwAETZ. Olof Swartz, 1760-1818. Sweden. 



Sweet. Robert Sweet, 1783-1835, author of many well 

 known works, as Geraniacese, British Flower Garden. 



Swz. See Swartz. 



Thoee. Jean Thore, 1762-1823, physician at Dax. 



Thune. Carl Peter Thunberg, 1743-1822. Sweden. 



Tore. John Torrey, 1796-1873. New York. [setts. 



TUCKM. Edward Tuckerman, 1817-1886. Massachu- 



Undeew. Prof. Lucius M. Underwood, Columbia Univ., 

 New York, N. Y., has written much on ferns, etc. 



Vahl. Martin Vahl, 1749-1804. Denmark. 



Van Houtte. Louis Van Houtte, 1810-1876, founder 

 and publisher of Flore des Serres. 



Veitch. John Gould Veitch, 1839-1867, and successors, 

 horticulturists at Chelsea, England. 



Vent. Etienne Pierre Ventenat, 1757-1808. France. 



Veel. B. Verlot, contributor to Revue Horticole. 



Veesch. Ambroise Verschaffelt, 1825-1886, founder and 

 publisher of L'Ulustration Horticole at Ghent, Bel- 

 gium. 



ViLL. Dominique Villars, 1745-1814. France. 



ViLM. Several generations of the family of Vilmorin, 

 Paris, seedsmen and authors of many books and 

 memoirs on botany and horticulture. Pierre Philippe 

 Andr^ Leveque de Vilmorin, 1746-1804. Pierre Vil- 

 morin, 1816-1860. Henry L. de Vilmorin, d. 1899. 



Voss. A. Voss, author of botanical part of Vilmorin's 

 Blumengartnerei. 



Wahl. Georg Wahlenberg, 1781-1851. Sweden. 



Wall. Nathanael Wallich, b. Copenhagen 1786, d. 

 London 1854, wrote on plants of India and Asia. 



Walp. Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, 1816-1853. 



Walt. Thomas Walter, about 1740-1788, author of 

 Flora Caroliniana. South Carolina. 



Wang. Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim, 1747- 

 1800. Germany. 



Wats. Sereno Watson, 1826-1892. Harvard University. 



Wedd. H. a. Weddell, wrote for De CandoUe's Pro- 

 dromus, vol. 16, etc. 



Wendl., H. Hermann Wendland, Dir. Royal Bot. 

 Garden at Herrenhausen, one of the chief writers on 

 palms. 



WiLLD. Karl Ludwig Willdeuow, 1765-1812. Germany. 



With., Wither. William Withering, 1741-1799. Eng. 



WiTTM. Max Karl Ludwig Wittmack, editor of Gar- 

 tenflora. Prof, at Berlin. 



Wood. Alphonso Wood, 1810-1881. Of his Class-Book 

 of Botany, 100,000 copies have been sold in Amer. 



Zucn. Joseph Gerhard Zuocarini, 1797-1848, Prof, at 

 Munich. 



