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  1. University Of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 45221, OH

    Mary Eubanks Dunn

  2. University Of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, OK

    Janet R. Sullivan

  3. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, 37132, TN

    Thomas E. Hemmerly

  4. Morton Collectanea, University Of Miami, 33124, Coral Gables, FL

    Julia F. Morton

  5. Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 40475, KY

    Ronald L. Jones

  6. University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104, MI

    Edward G. Voss

  7. U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, 80225, CO

    Hansford T. Shacklette

  8. State University Of New York At Stony Brook, Stony Brook, 1790, NY

    A. D. Krikorian

  9. Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 02138, MA

    Walter Kittredge

  10. Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 02138, MA

    Richard Evans Schultes

  11. University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27514, NC

    J. R. Massey

  12. University Of Connecticut, Storrs, 06268, CT

    F. R. Trainor

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Dunn, M.E., Sullivan, J.R., Hemmerly, T.E. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 37, 493–503 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904216

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