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Agriculture and noted collector of western American
plants, as well as in the Hawaiian Islands and Puerto Rico;
visited Santa Fe in the spring of 1896, accompanied by his
wife, Elizabeth Gertrude Heller, collecting 350 numbers
while exploring the region by bicycle; spent later years as
high school teacher in Chico, California.
Panicum helleri Nash [=Dichanthelium
oligosanthes (Schult.) Gould var.
scribnerianum (Nash) Gould]
Hilaire: see Saint-Hilaire.
Hillman, Frederick Hebard (1863-?).
Botanist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture; studied
seed morphology.
Panicum hillmanii Chase
Hooker, William Jackson (1785-1865).
Father of Joseph Dalton Hooker, both botanists
extraordinaires; director of Royal Gardens at Kew,
England; student of mosses, ferns, and vascular plants;
authored Flora Boreali Americana (1830-1840) with some
2500 species and Synopsis Filicum with 2252 species,
among numerous other prestigious works; a skilled artist
who prepared the plates as well as the text for his
monographs.
Avena hookeri Scribn. [=Helictotrichon hookeri
(Scribn.) Henr.]
Imperato, Ferrante (1550-1625).
Apothecary in Naples, Italy; author of a rare work on
natural history.
Imperata
James, Edwin (1797-1861).
Surgeon-naturalist with Major Stephen H. Long's 1820
expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the first known
botanical collector of the central Rockies and New Mexico;
collections mostly named and published by John Torrey,
but some by James himself; first anglo-American to ascend
Pike's Peak (originally named “James Peak” by Long);
abolitionist during the Civil War active in the Underground
Railroad.
Pleuraphis jamesii Torr.
Koeler, George Ludwig (1765-1807).
German botanist and professor at Mainz; authored work on
grasses of Germany and France, Descriptio graminum in
Gallia et Germania... (1802).
Koeleria
Leers, Johann Daniel (1727-1774).
German botanist-pharmacist who authored a manual of the
local flora (Flora herbornensis, 1775).
Leersia
Lehmann, Johann Georg Christian (1792-1860).
German botanist, professor of natural history, and director
of the botanic garden at Hamburg.
Eragrostis lehmanniana Nees
Lemmon, John Gill (1832-1908).
California botanist and student-explorer of southwestern
plant life, most of his noteworthy work being done with his
wife, Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon; corresponded and
exchanged plants with most of the notable botanists of his
time; survived the infamous Andersonville prison during
the Civil War; commemorated by Mount Lemmon in
Arizona (perhaps named for his wife, who was the first
reported white woman to climb to its peak).
Eriochloa lemmonii Vasey & Scribn.
Muhlenbergia lemmonii Scribn. [=Muhlenbergia
glauca (Nees) Mez.]
Tripsacum lemmonii Vasey [=Tripsacum
lanceolatum Rupr.]
Letterman, George Washington (1841-1913).
Public school teacher in Allenton, Missouri; crossed plains
to New Mexico in 1866, collecting along the way and in
Colorado; principle collections are from Missouri and the
southern States.
Stipa lettermanii Vasey [=Achnatherum
lettermanii]
Lindheimer, Ferdinand Jakob (1801-1879).
German-born resident, botanist, and newspaper editor of
New Braunfels, Texas; sent his well-gathered specimens to
Asa Gray and George Engelmann, who published his work
in Plantae Lindheimerianae (1845, 1850, 1907 by
Blankinship).
Panicum lindheimeri Nash [=Dichanthelium
acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & Clark var.
acuminatum]
Macoun, John (1831-1920).
Celebrated Irish-born Canadian botanist and naturalist;
professor of botany at Albert College, Ontario;
accompanied several expeditions to the northern Rockies;
author of Catalogue of Canadian Plants (1883-1902), and
Catalogue of Canadian Birds with his son James M.
Macoun; commemorated by Mount Macoun in the Selkirk
range.
Elymus macounii Vasey
Metcalfe, Orrick Baylor (1879-1936).
New Mexico botanical collector and resident of Mangas
Springs in southwestern New Mexico; student of E.O.
Wooton at the New Mexico College of Agricultural and
Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University) in Las
Cruces; senior thesis on The Flora of the Mesilla Valley
(1903) and master’s thesis entitled Atriplex and Larrea
Tension Line in the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico (1904);
significant collections in the Black Range 1902-1904,
which were sold to numerous herbaria throughout the
country and even overseas; taught auto mechanics at the
State College, later entered the auto business in the Silver
City area, then mining operations, and was killed in a
bizarre mine accident.
Muhlenbergia metcalfei M.E. Jones
Morton, Julius Sterling (1832-1902).
Agriculturalist, historian, and journalist; U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture 1893-1897.
Avena mortoniana Scribner [=Helictotrichon
mortonianum (Scribn.) Henrard]
Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst [also Heinrich
Ludwig Muehlenberg] (1753-1815).
Pennsylvania-born, German-educated, Lutheran pastor,
eminent ecologist and agrostologist of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania; studiously identified more than 1,000 species
of plants near his home; member of the distinguished
Muhlenberg family of the United States: father Heinrich
Melchior Muhlenberg, the father of German Lutheranism in
America; brother Fredrich Augustus Muhlenberg, a
member of the convention that ratified the U.S.