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Benth. George Bentham, 1800-1884. England. Author or 



joint author of many important botanical works. 

 Berchtold. Friedrich, Graf von Berchtold, b. 1780. Bohemia. 

 Bergius. Peter Jonas Bergius, 1730-1790. Sweden. 

 Bernh. Johann Jacob Bernhardi, 1774-1850. Germany. Prof. 



of Botany at Erfurt. 

 Bess. Wilhelm S. J. G. von Besser, 1784-1842. Austria. 

 Betcke. Ernst Friedrich Betcke. Germany. Author of a 



work on the genus Valerianella, published 1826. 

 Beyrich. Karl Beyrich, d. 1834. Germany. 

 Bicknell. Eugene Pintard Bicknell. United States. Author 



of many articles on North American plants. 

 Bieb. Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, 1768- 



1826. Germany and Russia. Author of works on the flora 



of Southern Russia. 

 Bigel. Jacob Bigelow, 1787-1879. United States. Author of 



Florula Bostoniensis, and of a Medical Botany. 

 Bisch., Bischoff. Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff, 1 797-1854. 



Germany. Prof, of Botany at Heidelberg. 

 Bissell. Charles Humphrey Bissell. United States. 

 Blanchard. William Henry Blanchard. United States. 

 Blume. Karl Ludwig Blunie, 1796-1862. Holland. Director 



of the Royal Herbarium at Leyden. Author of a great 



flora of Java. 

 Blytt. Matthias Numsen Blytt, 1789-1862. Norway. Prof. 



of Botany at Christiania. Author of a flora of Norway. 

 Boeckl. Johann Otto Boeckeler, 1803- 1899. Germany. 



Writer on Cyperaccae. 

 Boehm. Georg Rudolf Boehmer, 1723-1803. Germany. Prof. 



at Wittenberg. (Boehmcria Jacq.) 

 Boenn. Clemens Maria Friedrich von Boenninghausen, 1785- 



1864. Germany. 

 Boiss. Edmond Boissier, 1810-1885. Switzerland. Author 



of a Flora Orientalis, various studies of the genus Euphor- 

 bia, etc. 

 Bonpland. See HBK. 

 Boott. Francis Boott, 1792-1863. United States and England. 



Author of a great work on the genus Carex. See also W. 



Boott. 

 Borkh. Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, 1760-1806. Germany. 

 Bosc. Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, 1759-182S. France. 

 Bosch. Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch, 1810-1862. Holland. 



