George Bentham was an English botanist. The nephew of Jeremy Bentham he was born in 1800 and died 1884. He was privately educated, early attached himself to botany, and having resided in Southern France (where his father had an estate) in 1814 to 1826 he published in French a work on The Plants of the Pyrenees and Lower Languedoc.
Having returned to England he studied law, and on this subject, as well as logic, he developed original views. Finally, however, he devoted himself almost entirely to botany, was long connected with the Horticultural Society and the Linnaean Society, and from 1861 onwards was in almost daily attendance at Kew (except for a few weeks occasionally), working at descriptive botany from ten to four o'clock as a labour of love. Along with Sir J D Hooker he produced the great work of descriptive botany, Genera Plantarum; another great work of his was the Flora Australiensis published in seven volumes. His Handbook of the British Flora was formerly well known. Research George Bentham
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