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| Eichler, August Wilhelm |
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(ou´g st v l´h lm kh´l r) (KEY) , 183987, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany. |
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