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for grasses and forage plants. Leptochloa 

 nealleyi; Sporobolus nealleyi; Tridens neal- 

 leyi. 



Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried 

 Daniel (1776-1858). Eminent German bota- 

 nist, professor of botany in Breslau, author 

 of Agrostologia Brasiliensis. Stipa neesiana. 



Nelson, Aven (1859- ). Longtime pro- 

 fessor of botany, University of Wyoming, 

 author of a manual of Rocky Mountain 

 plants. Stipa columbiana var. nelsoni. 



Nuttall, Thomas (1786-1859). English- 

 American naturalist, onetime professor of 

 botany, Harvard University ("Old Curious" 

 of Dana's Two Years Before the Mast), 

 collector and author. Puccinellia nuttalliana 

 (P airoides) 



Orcutt, Charles Russell (1864-1929). 

 Resident botanist of San Diego, Calif., 

 who explored northern Baja California. 

 Orcuttia; Aristida orcuttiana ; Bromus orcut- 

 tianus; Eragrostis orcuttiana. 



Otis, Ira Clinton (1861-1938). Botanical 

 collector of the State of Washington. 

 Glyceria otisii. 



Palmer, Edward (1831-1911). Naturalist- 

 explorer, ethnobotanist, and collector in 

 Paraguay, Mexico, and the southwestern 

 United States, first naturalist to visit 

 Guadalupe Island. Agropyron smithii var. 

 palmeri; Eragrostis palmer i. 



Parish, Samuel Bonsall (1838-1928). 

 Resident botanist of San Bernardino, Calif., 

 collector of local flora. Agropyron parishii; 

 Aristida parishii; Puccinellia parishii. 



Parry, Charles Christopher (1823-90). 

 British- American "veteran botanist and 

 tireless explorer," first with the Mexican 

 Boundary Survey, later in Colorado, Utah, 

 California, and Mexico. Bouteloua parryi; 

 Danthonia parriji. 



Patterson, Harry Norton (1853-1919). 

 Illinois printer, resident botanist of Oquaw- 

 ka, who collected in Colorado. Poa patter- 

 soni. 



Phipps, Constantine John (1744-92). 

 Second baron of Mulgrave, British naval 

 commander, explorer, politician, leader of 

 an unsuccessful Arctic expedition to discover 

 a northern passage to India. Phippsia. 



Pickering, Charles (1805-78). Botanist, 

 ethnologist, historian, who accompanied 

 the U. S. Exploring Expedition under Wilkes. 

 Calamagrostis pickeringii. 



Poiret, Jean Louis Marie (1755-1834). 

 French botanist, who completed Lamarck's 

 Encyclopedic Methodique. Botanique. 

 Sporobolus poiretii; Setaria poiretiana. 



Porter, Thomas Conrad (1822-1901), 

 Classicist, poet, professor of botany, Lafay- 

 ette College, Pa., author of first Synopsis of 

 Flora of Colorado. Calamagrostis porteri; 

 Melica porteri; Muhlenbergia porteri; Stipa 

 porteri. 



Prieur. See Leprieur. 



Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey (1838-1911). 

 Vermont botanist, pioneer plant breeder, 



"prince of botanical collectors," who col- 

 lected in Arizona and California and re- 

 peatedly visited Mexico through 26 years 

 for plants. Agropyron pringlei; Agrostis 

 hallii var. pringlei; Poa pringlei; Stipa 

 pringlei. 



Puccinelli, Benedetto (1808-50). Italian 

 botanist, professor in Lyceum at Lucca. 

 Puccinellia. 



Pumpelly, Raphael (1837-1923). Geolo- 

 gist, U. S. Geological Survey. Bromus 

 pumpellianus. 



Pursh, Frederick (1774-1820). German- 

 American botanist, collected in Middle 

 Atlantic States, author of Flora Americae 

 Septentrionalis, which first included dis- 

 coveries of Lewis and Clark in the Pacific 

 Northwest. Amphicarpum purshii. 



Ravenel, Henry William (1814-87). Na- 

 tive of South Carolina, planter, agricultural 

 editor, onetime botanist, South Carolina 

 Department of Agriculture, who first issued 

 published series of named specimens of 

 American fungi. Panicum ravenelii. 



Redfield, John Howard (1815-95). Phila- 

 delphia business man, long associated with 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, amateur 

 botanist. Redfieldia. 



Reimarus, J. A. H. (1729-1814). German 

 botanist, professor of Natural History and 

 Physics at Hamburg. Reimarochloa. 



Reverchon, Julien (1837-1905). Resident 

 of Dallas, Tex., who came from Lyons, 

 France, in 1856 and collected plants in 

 Texas. Muhlenbergia reverchoni; Panicum 

 reverchoni, 



Reynaud, J. J. (1773-1842). Surgeon on 

 French exploring vessel Chevrette, who col- 

 lected plants in the Orient. Neyr audio , an 

 anagram of Reynaudia, a genus of West 

 Indian grasses; Neyraudia reynaudiana. 



Richardson, Sir John (1787-1865). English 

 naturalist, author of Fauna Boreali-Ameri- 

 cana, Arctic explorer, surgeon to three expe- 

 ditions to the Arctic, the last in search of 

 Sir John Franklin. Stipa richardsoni; 

 Muhlenbergia richardsonis. 



Roemer, Karl Ferdinand (von) (1818-91). 

 German geologist, who collected plants in 

 Texas, 1845-47. Aristida roemeriana. 



Ross, Edith A. (fi. 1885-95). Amateur 

 botanical collector of Davenport, Iowa, who 

 visited Yellowstone Park in 1890. Agrostis 



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Rothrock, Joseph Trimble (1839-1922). 

 Professor of botany, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, earlier surgeon-botanist to Wheeler's 

 exploring expedition west of 100th meridian. 

 Bouteloua rothrockii. 



Rottboell, Christem Friss (1727-97). 

 Danish botanist, professor of botany in 

 Copenhagen. Rottboellia. 



Roxburgh, William (1751-1815). Scotch 

 botanist, who collected in India, Director of 

 the botanical garden, Calcutta. Sorghuvi 

 vulgare var. roxburghii. 



Runyon, Robert (1881- ). Photographer 



