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  1. Humboldt State College, Arcata, California

    W. C. Vinyard

  2. Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service Unived States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

    Thomas Kerr

  3. Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois

    Robert A. Evers

  4. University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

    S. F. Glassman

  5. Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Richard Evans Schultes

  6. Illinois Natural History Survey, Uriana, Illinois

    Robert A. Evers

  7. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

    John R. Collier

  8. Michigan State University, Fast Lansing, Michigan

    W. E. Wade

  9. Arnold Arboretum Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

    Richard A. Howard

  10. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri

    Edgar Anderson

  11. Utah State University, Logan, Utah

    R. W. Woodward

  12. Crops Research Division, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

    Quentin Jones

  13. Botanisch Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

    J. Lanjouw

  14. Los Aigeles Slate and County Arboretum, Arcadia, California

    William S. Stewart

  15. Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

    Norman A. Alldridge

  16. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

    Ralph E. Engel

  17. Bussey Institution, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Walton C. Galinat

  18. University of Texas, Austin, Texas

    B. L. Turner

  19. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana

    John W. Thieret

  20. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    B. Lowy

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Vinyard, W.C., Kerr, T., Evers, R.A. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 19, 301–320 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02914318

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