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M. A. Curtis. Moses Ashley Curtis, 1 808-1 873. United States. 



Author of a flora of North Carolina and of important 



studies of North American fungi. 

 Magnus. Paul Magnus. 

 Marchal. Elie Marchal. Belgium. 

 Marsh. Humphrey Marshall, 1722-1801. United States. 



Author of a work on American trees and shrubs. 

 Martens. Martin Martens, 1797-1863. Belgium. Prof, of 



Botany at Louvain. 

 Martius. Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martins, 1794-1868. 



Germany. Prof, at Munich. 

 Maxim. Karl Johann Maximowicz, 1827-1891. Russia. Wrote 



much on Asiatic plants. 

 Maxon. William Ralph Maxon. United States. Assistant 



Curator, U. S. National Museum. Writer on ferns. 

 Medic. Friedrich Casimir Medicus, 1 736-1 808. Germany. 



Director of the Botanic Garden at Mannheim. 

 Meisn. Karl Friedrich Meisner, 1800-1874. Switzerland. 



Prof, of Botany at Basle, 

 i Merat. Frangois Victor Merat, 1780-1851. France. 

 I Merr. Elmer Drew Merrill. United States. Government 



Botanist in the Philippine Islands. 

 Mart. Karl Heinrich Mertens, 1796-1830. Russia. 

 Mey. Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer, 1791-1858. Germany. 



Prof, of Botany at Konigsberg. 

 I Micheli. See M. Micheli. 

 Michx. Andre Michaux, 1746-1802, France, but carried on 



much botanical work in North America. 

 Michx. f. Frangois Andre Michaux, 1770-1855. France and 



United States. Son of the preceding. Author of a work 



on the trees of North America. 

 Milde. Julius Milde, 1824-1871. Germany. Author of works 



on mosses and pteridophytes. 

 Mill. Philip Miller, 1691-1771. England. Author of a cele- 

 brated Dictionary of Gardening. 

 ! Miller. See E. S. Miller, G. S. Miller, Mill. 

 ' Millsp. Charles Frederic Millspaugh. Curator, Department 



of Botany, Field Museum of Natural Plistory, Chicago. 



Author of a flora of West Virginia and of numerous articles 



dealing chiefly with the plants of Mexico and the West 



Indies. 

 M. Micheli. Marco MicheH, 1844-1902. Switzerland. 



