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The Vegetable Kingdom
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Published by Bradbury & Evans., Whitefriars, London, England.
1846-1853
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John Lindley (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.
He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herbarium.[4] His first publication, in 1819, a translation of the Analyse du fruit of L. C. M. Richard, was followed in 1820 by an original Monographia Rosarum, with descriptions of new species, and drawings executed by himself, then in 1821 by Monographia Digitalium, and "Observations on Pomaceae", which were both contributed to the Linnean Society.
Lindley went to work at Banks’ house in London. He concentrated on the genera “Rosa” and “Digitalis” and published the monograph “A Botanical History of Roses” which distinguished seventy-six species, describes thirteen new ones and was illustrated by nineteen coloured plates ...
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The standard author abbreviation used to indicate this person as the author, when citing a botanical name: Lindl.
6280 plant species named BY Lindley and 433 plant species named AFTER Lindley.
The genera and species of orchidaceous plants