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lished "Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously 

 within Thirty Miles of the City of New York," "Flora 

 of the State of New York;" "Flora of Northern and 

 Middle States," "Flora of North America," with 

 Asa Gray. 



TOUBNEFORT, JOSEPH PiTTON DE. Bom at Aix, 



France, June 5, 1656; died November 28, 1708. A 

 noted French botanist. Professor of Botany at the 

 Royal Garden of Plants from 1683. His chief work is 

 " Institutiones rei herberise." 



WiLLDENOW, Karl Ludwig. A German botanist 

 bom in Berlin in 1765 ; died there July 10, 1812. Pro- 

 fessor of Natural History at the medical college, Ber- 

 lin, 1798-1812. His chief works are "Grundriss der 

 Krauterkunde " and a new edition of " Linnaeus 's Spe- 

 cie Plantarum," with the addition of plants discov- 

 ered since the publication of that work in 1753. 



