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### Author
Brickell, John (1748-1809), Irish born botanist and physician who settled in Georgia (1779).
**Abbreviated name**: *Brickell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Brickell*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection PH|PH]] (in Muhlenberg herbarium).
#### Bibliography and biography
BB p. 44; BM 1: 235; ME 3: 543 \[index\].
- Robinson, Rhodora 18: 225-230. 1916.
- Barnhart, in Kelly and Burrage, Amer. med. Biogr. 142. 1920.
- Adams, North Carolina Hist. Rev. 34: 313-326. 1957.
- Randall, Bull. Appalachian State Teacher's College. Fac. Publ. 1963: 13-17.
#### Note
Brickell's "The natural history of North Carolina" (1737) is for the greater part a plagiarism of Lawson's "History of Carolina" (1714, 1728). See Adams (1957).
#### Eponymy
*Brickellia* S. Elliott (1822, *nom. cons.*); *Brickelliastrum* R. M. King & H. E. Robinson (1972).