Prangos Asperula
''Prangos'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apiaceae, native from Europe to Mongolia and the western Himalayas. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *''Prangos abieticola'' Aytaç & H.Duman *''Prangos acaulis'' (DC.) Bornm. *''Prangos akymatodes'' Rech.f. & Riedl *''Prangos ammophila'' (Bunge) Pimenov & V.N.Tikhom. *''Prangos aricakensis'' Behçet & Yapar *''Prangos asperula'' Boiss. *''Prangos bucharica'' O.Fedtsch. *''Prangos cachroides'' (Schrenk) Pimenov & V.N.Tikhom. *''Prangos calligonoides'' Rech.f. *''Prangos carinata'' Griseb. ex Degen *''Prangos cheilanthifolia'' Boiss. *''Prangos corymbosa'' Boiss. *''Prangos crossoptera'' Herrnst. & Heyn *''Prangos denticulata'' Fisch. & C.A.Mey. *''Prangos didyma'' (Regel) Pimenov & V.N.Tikhom. *''Prangos dzhungarica'' Pimenov *''Prangos equisetoides'' Kuzjmina *''Prangos eriantha'' (DC.) Lyskov & Pimenov *''Prangos fedtschenkoi'' (Regel & Schmalh.) Korovin *''Prangos ferulacea'' (L.) Lindl ...
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John Lindley
John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ...
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