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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. 



