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> [!example] See also [[Bluff, Mathias Joseph (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Bluff, Mathias Joseph (1805-1837), German botanist at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle).
**Abbreviated name**: *Bluff* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bluff*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 204; BM 1: 178; CSP 1: 435-436; DTS 1: 22-23; Jackson p. 293; Kew 1: 270; PR 837, 2903, 2904, 10346; Zander ed 10, p. 636.
- Nees, Flora 20(2): 416. 1837.
- Anon., Brit. foreign Med. Rev. 7: 298-299. Jan 1839.
- Fingerhuth, Jahresber. bot. Ver. Mittel-Niederrheins 2: 142-144. 1839.
#### Note
For Bluff, *Entwicklungs-Combinationen organischer Wesen*, Köln 1827 (*n.v.*) see Flora 12(1) Erg. Bl. 78-80. Jun 1829.
#### Eponymy
*Bluffa* C. G. D. Nees (1834).
### Publications
##### n.559. Compendium florae Germaniae
**Title**
*Compendium florae Germaniae*. Nürnberg (J. L. Schrag) 1821-1823, 4 vols. Duod.
**Abbreviated title**: *Comp. fl. German.*
**Notes**
*Sectio* I. *Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae*
*Tomus* 1: Mai 1825, p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-755, \[756, err.\], *1 pl*. (Flora 8(2), Beil. 1: 9-10 gives 28 Mai 1825 as the date of "completion," a review followed on 7 Dec 1825).
*Tomus* 2: 1825, late, or, more probably, early 1826, p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-788, \[1, err.\], 1 pl. (announced by Flora 28 Oct 1826, reviewed 21 Nov 1826).
*Authors* of sectio 1: M. J. Bluff and Carl Anton Fingerhuth.
*Issues*: on 'writing paper" and on "printing paper".
*Sectio* 2. *Plantae cryptogamicae s. cellulosae*
*Tomus* 3: 1831 (pref. 13 Mar 1831), alternative title page:
*Flora cryptogamica germaniae* auctore Fred. Guil. Wallrothio... pars prior continens filices, lichenastra, muscos et lichenes. Nürnberg 1831, p. \[i\]-xxvi, \[1\], \[1\]-654.
*Tomus* 4: Jan-Mar 1833, alternative title page: *Flora... pars posterior* continens algas et fungos. Nürnberg 1833, p. \[i\]-lvi, \[1\]-923, p. viii dated Dec 1832, announced by Flora 28 Mar 1833.
*Author* of sectio 2: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth (1792-1857).
*Copies*: HH, L.
*Editio altera*, aucta et amplificata, curantibus M.J. Bluff..., C.-G. Nees ab Esenbeck, ... et J. C. Schauer. Sectio 1, Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae \[only\] 2 vols., Nürnberg (J. L. Schrag) 1836-1839. Duod.
*Tomus* 1, *pars 1*: Jan 1836, p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-648, \[2, err.\], (p. x. id. Nov 1835, announcement of proof sheet Flora 28 Nov 1835, Allg. Bibliogr. Deutschl. says publ. 15 Jan 1835; id. at Regensburg 10 Feb 1836, rev. Flora 7 Mai 1836, Hinrichs 17-23 Jan 1836).
*Tomus* 1, *pars 2*: 837, p. \[1\], \[1\]-448, \[1, err.\] (rev. Flora 7 Mar 1838).
*Tomus* 2: 1838, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-764, \[1, err.\] (Hinrichs 3-9 Mar 1839).
*Index generalis* 1839: p. \[i\], \[1\]-159 (Flora 4 Mar 1839).
*Copy*: HH. – This second edition was superseded by W. D. J. Koch, *Synopsis florae germanicae et helveticae* of 1837, possibly in part because of Koch's use of the Candollean system (see Sprague 1920).
*Ref*.: BM 1: 178; DTS 1: 22-23; Jackson p. 293; Kew 1: 270; LS 3109; PR 837.
- Nees von Esenbeck, Flora 1825 (Beil. 1): 90-93, 2: 714-718. Sprague, Bull. misc. inf.
- Kew 1920: 72-74 (modern equivalents of names publ. in ed. 2).
- Rickett, NAF 1(1): 154. 1949.