Robert Bentley was an English botanist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume Medicinal Plants, published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair.
In military aviation, area bombardment is a type of aerial bombardment in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target. The term "area bombing" came into prominence during World War II.
Roland Trimen FRS was a British-South African naturalist, best known for South African Butterflies (1887–89), a collaborative work with Colonel James Henry Bowker. He was among the first entomologists to investigate mimicry and polymorphism in butterflies and their restriction to females. He also collaborated with Charles Darwin to study the pollination of Disa orchids.
Berthold Carl Seemann, was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America.
Raukaua is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae. It has an austral distribution, being indigenous to southern Argentina and Chile, as well as New Zealand and the island of Tasmania.
Tetraplasandra is a no longer recognised genus of plants in the ivy family, Araliaceae. They are small to medium trees, of mesic to wet forests.
Spencer Le Marchant Moore was an English botanist.
Henry Fletcher Hance was a British diplomat who devoted his spare time to the study of Chinese plants.
James Britten was an English botanist.
Henry Trimen was a British botanist who worked in Sri Lanka. He named several plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
Isaac Rand (1674–1743) was an English botanist and apothecary, who was a lecturer and director at the Chelsea Physic Garden.
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites was an English botanist and entomologist.
Markhamia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. The genus is named after Clements Markham.
Thomas Powell was a British missionary sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1844 to Samoa where he remained for 43 years. He was interested in botany, zoology and anthropology and was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. During his time on the islands he recorded details of flora, fauna and the culture of the indigenous people.
Théodore (Teodoro) Caruel was an Italian botanist of French-English parentage who specialized in flora of Tuscany.
Phyllorachis is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The only known species is Phyllorachis sagittata native to Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Malawi, and Mozambique.
Smilax melastomifolia, the Hawai'i greenbrier, is a species of spiny vine found in nature only in the Hawaiian Islands. Spines occur not only on the stems but also on the underside of the leaves and on the peduncles of female flowers. Berries are white or pale green.
Hugo Robert Heinrich August Miehe was a German botanist.
Soroseris glomerata is a species of thick stem flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, a type of lettuce with small leaves of China, where it is called 绢毛菊.
Elizabeth Hodgson was a botanist and geologist whose research was focused on the Furness area of Lancashire.
