Johann Müller (9 May 1828 – 28 January 1896) was a Swiss botanist who was a specialist in lichens. He published under the name Johannes Müller Argoviensis to distinguish himself from other naturalists with similar names.
6-553: Ricinella Müll.Arg. Adelia is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family , Euphorbiaceae , subfamily Acalyphoideae . It is native to Latin America and the Caribbean , with one species extending northward into the southernmost part of Texas . The name is derived from the Greek words α ( a ), meaning "not", and δήλος ( delos ), meaning "visible." It refers to
12-575: The Alps of Savoy, the valley of Aoste, and Piedmont. The Swiss Society of Natural Sciences published his first work in 1857, Monographie de la famille des Résédacées , for which he received the Candolle prize and earned a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Zurich. He then published works on Euphorbiaceae , Characeae , Apocynaceae , mosses and fungi. His annotated catalog of lichens, published in 1862,
18-898: The Geneva Academy from 1871. He held the chair in 1876 and retired in 1889 for health reasons. Afterwards he served as curator of the Delessert herbarium and director of the Geneva Botanical Garden until his death on 28 January 1896. He served as president of the Botanical Society of Geneva from 1878 to 1882. He was a member of the Linnean Society of London, the German Botanical Society, the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, and other academic societies. Müller
24-548: The difficulties Linnaeus experienced interpreting the genus. This Euphorbiaceae -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Johannes M%C3%BCller Argoviensis Müller was born into a farming family on 9 May 1828 in Teufenthal , Switzerland. He received his education at the Reinach gymnasium and then entered the Aargau industrial school, where he
30-524: Was considered a standard work in its day. In 1867 he issued the last delivery of the exsiccata series Die Flechten Europas in getrockneten mikroskopisch untersuchten Exemplaren mit Beschreibung und Abbildung ihrer Sporen . Later on he distributed two other series: Graphideae Cubenses a cl. C. Wright lectae et a cl. W. Nylander determinatae and Verr. Cub. . He was appointed instructor in Geneva in 1868, in charge of teaching medical and pharmaceutical botany at
36-607: Was passionate about botany and mathematics. Encouraged by Hans Schinz he built a herbarium of the flora of Aargau. In 1850 and 1851 he studied in Geneva and came into contact with prominent botanists Edmond Boissier and Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (who offered him the vacant post of curator at his herbarium). In the spring of 1851 he collected in southern France with Jean Étienne Duby . The herbarium specimens from this trip were later sent to several herbaria in Europe. The following year, Müller travelled with Boissier to collect plants in
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