William Baxter

William Baxter ALS, FHS, was a British botanist, author of British Phaenogamous Botany and appointed curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden in 1813. From 1825 to 1828 he edited the exsiccata series Stirpes cryptogamae Oxonienses, or dried specimens of cryptogamous plants collected in the vicinity of Oxford. With Philip Burnard Ayres he distributed another exsiccata under the title Flora Thamnensis.