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Plant cell
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Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Swiss botanist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist

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