Braun, ALEXANDER, born at Ratisbon in 1805, was professor of Botany at Berlin from 1852 till his death, 29th March 1877. He did special service in the departments of the morphology of plants, systematisation, and the lower cryptogams. See his Life by Mettenius (Berlin, 1882).
Braun, ALEXANDER
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