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Aristida brownii Warnock [=Aristida purpurea
Nutt. forma brownii (Warnock) Allred
& Valdes-R.]
Bush, Benjamin Franklin (1858-1937).
Postmaster at Independence, Missouri, and amateur
botanist.
Paspalum bushii Nash [=Paspalum setaceum
Michx. var. stramineum (Nash) Banks]
Canby, William Marriott (1831-1904).
Amateur botanist, banker, and merchant of Wilmington,
Delaware; accompanied Henry Villard’s Northern
Transcontinental Survey; collected throughout much of the
United States and Canada in his lifetime, amassing a
personal herbarium of 30,000 specimens.
Glyceria canbyi Scribn. [=Poa secunda Presl]
Cotta, Heinrich (1763-1844).
German plant physiologist.
Cottea
Danthoine, Étienne (?-1815?).
Nineteenth century French botanist who studied the grasses
of the Marseilles region.
Danthonia
Aira danthonioides Trin. [=Deschampsia
danthonioides (Trin.) Munro]
Deschamps, Louis Auguste (1766-1842).
Surgeon-naturalist on the sailing vessel La Recherche,
which was sent out in 1828 by the French government in
search of the famous explorer Jean-François de Galaup de
La Pérouse, who had disappeared in the late 1700s. [His
ship’s wreckage was finally found on Vanikora of the
Solomon Islands.]
Deschampsia
Desvaux, Nicaise Auguste (1784-1856).
French botanist at Angers.
Enneapogon desvauxii Beauv.
Earle, Franklin Sumner (1856-1929).
Agronomist and mycologist associated with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and New York Botanical
Garden; extensive collections in southern Colorado (1898)
and in central New Mexico (1900).
Festuca earlei Rydberg
Elliott, Stephen (1771-1830).
Pioneer botanist and legislator of South Carolina.
Agrostis elliottiana Schult.
Emersley, J.D. (?-?)
Botanical collector in the Southwest during the last century.
Muhlenbergia emersleyi Vasey
Fendler, Augustus (1813-1883).
German-born botanist who came to United States in 1836;
hired as a botanical collector by Asa Gray at Harvard, and
joined J.W. Abert on the military reconnaissance to Santa
Fe in 1846; explored the environs of Santa Fe April-August
1847, collecting most of his plants on the west mesas and
along Santa Fe Creek, never venturing farther than 12 miles
from the town on account of Indian hostilities; the account
of his collections in New Mexico were published in Gray's
well-known Plantae Fendlerianae Novi-Mexicanae (1849);
about 125 new species of plants were collected by Fendler
in New Mexico; also collected plants for Gray in western
United States, Venezuela, Panama, and Trinidad.
Aristida fendleriana Steud. [=Aristida purpurea
Nutt. var. fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey]
Eragrostis fendleriana Steud. [=Poa
fendleriana
(Steud.) Vasey]
Gerard, John (1545-1612).
English surgeon and pharmacist who produced the Herball
or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597), which was part
translation and part adaptation of a work by the Belgian
Rembert Dodoens.
Andropogon gerardii Vitman
Gray, Asa (1810-1888).
Preeminent American botanist of his time, and perhaps to
this time; professor of Natural History at Harvard
University and a spirited rival of colleague Louis Agassiz;
author of Flora of North America (with John Torrey),
Manual of Botany of the Northern United States (1848, five
editions), Elements of Botany, Introduction to Structural
and Systematic Botany,
How Plants Grow,
Synoptical
Flora of North America (uncompleted), and technical
papers describing hundreds of new species; benefited from
network of professional collectors and amateur naturalists
from all over North America; vigorous proponent of
Darwinism and champion of phytogeographical affinities of
northeastern United States and eastern temperate Asia; as
far as is known, never visited New Mexico.
Poa grayana Vasey [=Poa arctica R. Br. subsp.
grayana (Vasey) A. & D. Löve & Kapoor]
Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf (1814-1879).
German botanist at Göttingen and director of the botanic
garden; author of Flora of the British West Indian Islands
(1864) and studies in Gentianaceae.
Setaria grisebachii Fourn.
Hackel, Eduard (1850-1926).
Celebrated Austrian (Bohemian-born) agrostologist and
educator; contributed “Gramineae” to Die Naturlichen
Pflanzenfamilien (1887) and authored Monographia
Andropogonearum (1889).
Hackelochloa
Hall, Elihu (1822-1882).
Botanical collector and farmer from Illinois who visited
Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, and Texas; organized Illinois
Natural History Society (1858); joined Charles C. Parry
and J.P. Harbour on 1862 expedition to Colorado, during
which he ascended Pike’s Peak on July 1; Jones (1930)
termed him “an indefatigable collector.”
Andropogon hallii Hack. [=Andropogon gerardii
Vitman subsp. hallii (Hack.) Wipff]
Panicum hallii Vasey
Havard, Valery (1846-1927).
French-born surgeon in U.S. Army; well-known for his
botanical collecting in Montana, Texas, and the Southwest;
authored Report on the Flora of Western and Southern
Texas (1886) and Drink Plants of the North American
Indians (1896).
Aristida havardii Vasey
Panicum havardii Vasey
Heller, Amos Arthur (1867-1944).
Pennsylvania-born botanist; founder and editor of journal
Muhlenbergia; field agent for U.S. Department of