Asa Gray was an American botanist who was considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was considered by some as an important explanation of how religion and sci
Gray in the 1870s
Gray in 1841
Shortia galacifolia, which Gray named
Suksdorfia violacea, the type species of its genus
Grayanotoxins are a group of closely related neurotoxins named after Leucothoe grayana, a plant native to Japan and named for 19th-century American botanist Asa Gray. Grayanotoxin I is also known as a
Asa Gray
…Just fate, prolong his life, well spent, Whose indefatigable hours Have been as gayly innocent, And fragrant as his flowers. Grayanotoxin is named after him. William Hooker named the genus Grayia after Gray…