AUTHORITIES FOR GENERIC TITLES,
Ach. for Achanus. A Swedish botanist and examiner of I^icKens.
Adams, F» A Russian botanist and traveller in Siberia.
Adanson. A French traveller and botanist.
AfzelitiS' A professor in Sweden,.and traveller in Sierra Leone.
Agardh. A Swedish professor, bishopj and writer on Algaceou8
plants.
Aiton- The manager of the Royal Kew Gardens.
Alhertini, Autlior of some dissertations on Fungi.
^llioni. A botanist of Italy.
Anderson. A London writer on Pseonies.
Andr. for Andrews. An eminent English botanloal artist.
Andrzejowski. A Russian botanist.
Auhlet. A Frenchman who travelled in Guiana.
Bancroft. A physician resident in Jamaica.
Banks. A celebrated English traveller and promoter of
science.
Bart I. for Bariling. A botanist of Gottingen.
Barton. Once a professor at Philadelphia.
Bauhin, Caspar. A German botanist of the sixteenth century.
Baumgarten. A botanist of Transylvania.
Beauvois for Palisot de Beauvois. A French botanist and traveller
in Africa.
Benth. for Benfham. An English botanist, and secretary to the
London Horticultural Society.
Sergius.
Bei^iey.
Bemka/rdt.
Bertolini.
Besser.
Bieberstein.
A Swede, and writer on Cape plants.
An English clergyman and writer on Fungi.
A botanist of Italy,
A writer on Italian plants,
A professor in Russia.
A Russian botanist, and writer upon the plants of
Caucasus.
Blume. A Dutch botanist and traveller in Java.
Boerhaave, An ancient botanist and physician.
Bofimer. A German and writer on botany.
Bojcr. A botanist of the Mauritius.
Borkhaus^n. An examiner of the plants of Hesse Daraistadt.
Bory for Bort/ de St. Vincent. A French botanist and traveller.
Bot. Reg. for Botanical Register. A botanical monthly periodical,
commenced by Ker and now conducted by Lindley.
Bot. Rep. f»)r Botanical Repository. A botanical periodical,
formerly conducted by Andrews and others.
Bridel. A German author on Mosses.
Brignoli. A botanist of Verona.
Brongnia/rt. A botanist of France.
Browne, Patrick. An Irish botanist and writer on the plants of
Jamaica.
Brmn, R. An English botanist and traveller in New Holland.
Bulliard. A Frenchman and investigator of Fungi.
Burmanrt. A Dutch writer on botany and patron of Linneeus.
Carmichaet. A Scotch botanist.
Casstni, H. A French \vxiter on Composite plants.
CavanUles. A botanist at Madrid.
Chamisso. A German traveller and botanist,
Choisy. A botanist of Switzerland.
Colehrof^. An English writer on the Flora of India.
Colladon, J. F. A botanist of Geneva.
Commelin. A botanist of Holland.
Commerson. A French traveller and botanist,
Corda. A German botanist,
Correa for Correa de Serra. A Portuguese botanist, diplomatist,
and writer on botanical subjects.
Coulter. An Irish physician and traveller in Mexico.
Crantz. An Austrian Botanist.
Cunn. A. for A. Cwnmngham. A British collector for the Kew
Gardens.
Cussm. A Swiss observer of Umbel life ree.
Cyrilli. An Italian botanist.
Dec. for DecandoUe. A French botanist now resident as professor
at Geneva.
Desfon. for Desfontaines. A French traveller aad botanist in
Algiers.
Desmazieres. A botanist of France.
Desvaux. A French botanist.
Dickson. An English examiner of Crj'ptognmia.
BxUentus. A German writer on botany, especiaLv Mosses,
settled 'n England when he was gardener to Gerard, at
Eltham.
Dillwyn. An English investigator of Confervte.
Ditmar. A botanist of Holland.
Bon., D. Librarian to the Linnrean Society and botanist.
Don, G. An Englieh botanist and traveller.
Douglas. ^ A collector of plants in North America for the
Horticultural Society of London.
Drya/nder. A Swedish botanist and long a librarian to Sir
Joseph Banks.
Dumont, for Dumont Courset. A French gardening author.
E. Botany for English Botany. A periodical containing coloured
figures of British planis by Sowerby and Sir J. E. Smith.
Ehrhart. A botanist of Germany.
Eliiot. An American botanist who wrote on the plants of
Carolina.
Ellis. An English writer on marine plants.
Endlicher. A German botanist
FenzL An Austrian botanist.
^liUe. A French .Tesuit who wrote on the plants of Chile.
Fischer. A Russian botanist, and director of the Botanical
Garden, St. Petersburg.
Flora Pertc. for Flora Peruviana. A work on the plants of Chile
and Peru by Ruiz and Pavon, two Spanish botanists.
Flügge. A German writer on Grasses.
Forskahl. A Danish naturalist Avho travelled in Arabia.
Forster. A traveller in the South Pacific Ocean.
Fougeroux for Fougeroux de Bondaroxa. A French botanist of
the last century.
Fries. A writer on Fungi in Sweden.
Gcertner. A German writer on the structure of fruit and
seeds.
Gaudich. for Oattdichaui. A French botanist and voyager.
Otmrim. A French botanist.
Gine/in. A Russian botanist and traveller in Siberia.
«^rC'íY e. An English author on Oryptogamic botany.
Gronovius. A Dutch botanist.
Bailer. A botanist and physician of Switzerland.
Hamilton. A Scotch botanist "and Indian traveller, sometimes
called Buchanan.
A writer on Cryptogam)e and Cape plants.
An English author on succulent plants.
A German writer on Cr\-ptogamio plants.
An English writer on Aniaryllidaceous plants.
A French botanist and traveller in Brazil.
An English botanical writer.
A German botanical author.
A urofessor o - - --pr( . .f botany^ at Glasgow.
Harve^K
Haioorth.
Hodwig.
Herbert.
Hilaire.
Hill.
Hoffmann,
Hoolccr.
Hort. Kefü. for Hortus Kewensis. A catalogue of the plants in
the Royal Xvew Gardens.
Host. An Austrian botanical writer.
Hudson. An investigator of British plants.
Humboldt and Bonpland. Botanists and travellers in America, &c.
Jack. An English writer on the plants of tlie Indian
Archipelago.
Jackson. An Enplish botanist.
J acq. for Jacquin. An Austrian botanist.
Jussieu. A French systematical botanist.
Kcempfer. A traveller in Japan.
Kalm. A_ Swedish pupil of Linneeus who travelled in
N. America.
Kaulfuss. A German writer upon Ferns.
Ker. A describer of plants in Bot. Reg.
Knowles and ¡Vcstcott. E d i tors o f th e F lora 1 Cabi ne t.
Koch. A professor of botany at Erlangen.
Konig, A German naturalist who travelled in the East
Indies.
Kunth. A PniRsinn botanist who assisted in the arrangement
and publication of tlie plants found in America by
Humboldt and Bonpland.