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Berg, Federico Guillermo Carlos (1843- 

 1902). Director, Museo Nacional de Buenos 

 Aires. Panicum bergii. 



Bertero, Carlo Giuseppe > (1789-1831). 

 Italian botanical explorer, resident in Chile 

 1827-30, lost at sea on his return from 

 Tahiti. Tragus berteronianus. 



Beyrich, Heinrich Karl (1796-1834). 

 Prussian botanical explorer, visited Brazil 

 1822-23 and subsequently Virginia, the 

 Carolinas, and Georgia; died at Fort Gibson 

 when exploring Arkansas Territory. Era- 

 grostis beyrichii. 



Bicknell, Eugene Pintard (1859-1925). 

 New York banker, amateur botanist, and 

 collector of local flora. Panicum bicknellii. 



Bigelow, John Milton (1804-78). Surgeon- 

 botanist, with Mexican Boundary Survey 

 and Lieutenant Whipple's railroad survey 

 along 35th parallel. Blepharidachne bige- 

 lovii; Poa bigelovii. 



Blasdale, Walter Charles (1871- ). 

 Professor of chemistry at University of 

 California and amateur botanist. Agrostis 

 blasdalei. 



Blodgett, John Loomis (1809-53). Physi- 

 cian and druggist of Key West, first im- 

 portant botanical collector among the lower 

 Florida Keys. Paspalum blodgettii. 



Bloomer, Hiram G. (1821-74). Pioneer 

 botanist of California, active member of the 

 California Academy of Sciences. Oryzopsis 

 bloomeri. 



Bolander, Henry Nicholas (1831-97). 

 California botanist, teacher, collaborator in 

 State Geological Survey, and special student 

 of cryptogams. Calamagrostis bolanderi; 

 Poa bolanderi; Scribneria bolanderi. 



Bosc, Louis Augustin Guillaume (1759- 

 1828). French botanist, who visited the 

 Carolinas 1798-1800, author of a treatise on 

 oaks. Panicum boscii; Paspalum boscianum. 



Boutelou, Claudio (1774-1842) and his 

 brother Esteban (1776-1813). Lagasca 

 named the genus Bouteloua for them; 

 Claudio was professor of agriculture in 

 Madrid. 



Brewer, William Henry (1828-1910). 

 California botanist, onetime professor at 

 Yale University, whose narrative journal 

 was published under the title "Up and 

 Down California." Calamagrostis breweri. 



Brown, Addison (1830-1913). New York 

 judge, amateur botanist, patron of New 

 York Botanical Garden. Panicum addisonii. 



Buckley, Samuel Botsford (1809-83). 

 Southern naturalist and collector, twice 

 State Geologist of Texas, described grasses 

 from Texas and Oregon. Sporobolus buck- 

 leyi; Tridens buckleyanus. 



Cabanis, Jean (1816-1906). German orni- 

 thologist, who collected plants in Florida. 

 Andropogon cabanisii. 



Cain, Stanley Adair (1902- ). Plant 

 geographer and botanist of Indiana and 

 Tennessee. Calamagrostis cainii. 



Canby, William Marriott (1831-1904). 



Wilmington, Del., merchant and banker, 

 amateur botanist. Poa canbyi. 



Chaix, Abte Dominique (1731-1800), 

 French botanist, collaborator with Domi- 

 nique Villars on treatise on French plants. 

 Poa chaixii. 



Chapman, Alvan Wentworth (1809-99). 

 Botanist of Apalachicola, Fla., and author 

 of Flora of the Southern United States. 

 Gymnopogon chapmanianus; Panicum chap- 

 mani; Poa chapmaniana; Tridens chapmani. 



Clute, Willard Nelson (1869- ). Pro- 

 fessor of botany, Butler University, Ind., 

 and student of vascular cryptogams. Pani- 

 cum clutei. 



Combs, Robert (1872-99). Botanical col- 

 lector in Florida and Cuba. Panicum 

 combsii. 



Commons, Albert (1829-1919). Amateur 

 botanist of Delaware, collector of local 

 flora. Panicum commonsianum. 



Cooke, William Bridge (1908- ). 

 California botanist, devoted to the flora of 

 the Mount Shasta region. Glyceria cookei 

 (G. declinata.) 



Cotta, Heinrich (1763-1844). German 

 plant physiologist. Cottea. 



Curtiss, Allen Hiram (1845-1907). Bo- 

 tanical collector of Jacksonville, Fla. 

 Aristida curtissii; Calamovilfa curtissii; 

 Sporobolus curtissii. 



Cusick, William Conklin (1842-1922). 

 Oregon botanist, who explored the Wallowa 

 Mountains and eastern Oregon. Poa cu- 

 sickii. 



Danthione, Etienne (fl. 1800-15). French 

 botanist, author of an unpublished account 

 of grasses of Marseille region. Danthonia. 



Davy, Joseph Burtt (1870-1940). English 

 botanist, professor at Oxford University, 

 onetime resident of California and author of 

 a grass flora of central California. Pleuro- 

 pogon davyi. 



Deam, Charles Clemon (1865- ). 

 Veteran Indiana botanist, forester, author of 

 a Flora of Indiana and Grasses of Indiana. 

 Panicum deamii. 



Deschamps, L. A. (1766- ). Surgeon- 

 naturalist on Recherche sent out by French 

 Government under D'Entrecasteaux in 

 1791 in search of La Perouse. Deschampsia. 



Desmazieres, Jean Baptiste Henri Joseph 

 (1796-1862). French botanist, author of a 

 work on grasses of northern France. Des- 

 mazeria. 



Deyeux, Nicholas (1753-1837). French 

 botanist. Deyeuxia. 



Douglas, David (1799-1834). British 

 botanical explorer, who visited the Pacific 

 Northwest, California, and the Hawaiian 

 Islands. Poa douglasii. 



Drummond, Thomas (1780-1835). Scotch 

 nurseryman and botanical explorer, curator 

 of Belfast Botanic Garden, member of 

 Second Franklin Expedition, who collected 

 in the Canadian Rockies and in Texas. 

 Sorghum vulgare var. drummondii. 



