Phylum Tittmannia sp.

For Dr Johann August Tittman (1774–1840), German physician, agronomist and botanist. He was lecturer in pharmaceutical botany at Dresden (1804–1813) and later practised medicine in Dresden, working at the 241 Ambulance College from 1814. He wrote both medical and botanical books such as Lehrbuch der Chirurgie zu Vorlesungen, a textbook of surgery to lectures (three volumess, Leipzig, 1800–1802, 1810–1811); Chirurgische Verbandlehre (Surgical Association Teaching) (1812); Von den Topischen Arzneymitteln gegen Augenkrankheiten (Of the Topical Arzneymitteln against Eye Diseases) (1804); Über das Stadium der Botanik (On the Study of Botany) (1802); and Über den Embryo des Saamenkorns und Seine Entwicklung zur Pflanze (On the Embryo of the Grain of Seed and its Development to the Plant) (1817).