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Constitution and the first Speaker of the House of
Representatives; brother John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg,
general in the American Revolution who inspired the
Germans in the Shenandoah Valley to side with the
American insurgents (and not with the German soldiers
hired by the British) and who served in the first U.S. House
of Representatives; Gotthilf’s son, Henry Augustus
Muhlenberg, U.S. Congressman and Ambassador to
Austria; Gotthilf’s grandson, Frederich August
Muhlenberg, president of Muhlenberg College at
Allentown.
Muhlenbergia
Munro, Sir
William (1818-1880).
British botanist-agrostologist and general in the Indian
colonial army; collected in Barbados, Crimea, and India.
Munroa
Nealley, Greenleaf Cilley (1846-1896).
Botanical collector active in Texas; gathered forage plants
for U.S. Department of Agriculture; co-author (with S.M.
Tracy and G. Vasey) of Report of an investigation of the
grasses of the arid districts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,
Nevada, and Utah (1887).
Aristida stricta Michx.
var.
nealleyi Vasey
[=Aristida purpurea Nutt. var. nealleyi
(Vasey) Allred]
Sporobolus nealleyi Vasey
Triodia nealleyi Vasey [=Erioneuron
nealleyi
(Vasey) Tateoka]
Nuttall, Thomas (1786-1859).
English-born botanist and ornithologist memorialized as
"Old Curious" in Two Years Before the Mast by R.H. Dana;
accompanied Wyeth's expedition to the Rockies in 1834
during which he collected numerous specimens; produced
Genera of North American Plants and a Catalogue of the
Species of the Year 1817 (1818), an update of Michaux's
North American Sylva (1842), as well as Manual of the
Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832);
contributed heavily to Torrey and Gray's Flora of North
America (1838-1840).
Poa nuttalliana Schultes [=Puccinellia nuttalliana
(Schult.) A.S. Hitchc.]
Orcutt, Charles Russell (1864-1929).
Naturalist and botanical collector based at San Diego,
California; involved in the somewhat notorious “thorny
rose affair” with M.E. Jones, C.C. Parry, and C.G. Pringle
(see Lenz 1982); wrote Botany of Southern California
(1901).
Aristida orcuttiana Vasey [=Aristida schiedeana
Trinius & Ruprecht var. orcuttiana
(Vasey) Allred & Valdés-R.]
Palmer, Edward (1831-1911).
Extraordinary explorer, naturalist, ethnobotanist,
anthropologist, and plant collector; made extensive visits to
southwestern United States, Mexico, and Paraguay,
collecting for all the notable plant scientists of his day,
including Gray, Engelmann, Watson, Torrey, Nash, Vasey,
Baird, and Smith; gathered upwards of 100,000 botanical
specimens, of which nearly 2000 were regarded as new to
science; visited New Mexico in 1862, 1865, 1869, and
1884.
Agropyron spicatum (Pursh) Scribn. & Smith var.
palmeri Scribn. & Smith [=Elymus
smithii (Rydb.) Gould]
Eragrostis palmeri S. Wats.
Parish, Samuel Bonsall (1838-1928).
Resident of San Bernardino, California, and noted plant
collector and botanist of southern California and adjacent
areas.
Aristida parishii A.S. Hitchc.
Puccinellia parishii A.S. Hitchc.
Parry, Charles Christopher (1823-1890).
British-born botanist-physician living most of his life in
Davenport, Iowa; foremost botanical explorer of Colorado
and much of the mountain West, making several trips to the
Rocky Mountains; official Botanist and Assistant Surgeon
for the U.S.-Mexican Boundary Survey (1849-1852);
traversed north-central New Mexico with the Pacific
Railroad Survey along the 35th parallel in 1867; christened
“king of Colorado botany” by Joseph D. Hooker.
Chondrosum parryi Fourn. [=Bouteloua parryi
(Fourn.) Griffiths]
Danthonia parryi Scribn.
Porter, Thomas Conrad (1822-1901).
Professor of Botany, as well as poet and classicist, at
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania; author of Synopsis of the
Flora of Colorado (1874, with J.M. Coulter) and
Flora of
Pennsylvania (1903).
Bromus kalmii Gray var. porteri Coult. [=Bromus
porteri (Coult.) Nash]
Melica porteri Scribn.
Muhlenbergia porteri Scribn. ex Beal
Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey (1838-1911).
Vermont botanist and pioneer plant breeder; universally
respected plant collector, principally of Arizona, California,
and Mexico; gathered perhaps as many as 500,000
specimens, of which more than 1200 were considered new
species; considered by some as the “prince of botanical
collectors” and praised by Marcus E. Jones (no small feat)
as a “painstaking botanist” and a “very conscientious man,
absolutely on the square about everything.”
Stipa pringlei Beal [=Piptochaetium pringlei
(Beal) Parodi]
Puccinelli, Benedetto (1808-1850).
Italian botanist, professor, and director of the botanic
garden at Lucca.
Puccinellia
Pumpelly, Raphael (1837-1923).
Geologist and mining engineer active in Montana, Arizona,
and the northwestern United States; geologist for Villard’s
Northern Transcontinental Survey, accompanying the
botanists W.M. Canby, C.S. Sargent, and F.L. Scribner.
Bromus pumpellianus Scribn. [=Bromus inermis
Leyss. var. purpurascens (Hook.)
Wagnon]
Reverchon, Julien (1837-1905).
French botanist-naturalist who resided at Dallas, Texas, and
botanized throughout the state; brother of Elisée
Reverchon, a well-known professional collector in France.
Aristida reverchonii Vasey [=Aristida purpurea
Nutt. var. nealleyi (Vasey) Allred]
Richardson, Sir John (1787-1865).
Scottish naturalist-zoologist and arctic explorer; author of
Fauna Boreali-Americana.