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Baill.

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Henri Ernest Baillon.
Henri Ernest Baillon (French pronunciation:; 30 November 1827 in Calais – 19 July 1895 in Paris) was a French botanist and physician who spent his academic career teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur in 1867, joined the Royal Society in 1894 and put together the Dictionnaire de botanique with Auguste Faguet's wood engravings. The standard author abbreviationBaill. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.