[f. LICHEN sb. + -IST.] = LICHENOLOGIST.
1833. W. J. Hooker, Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. 144. The great Swedish Lichenist.
1861. H. Macmillan, Footn. fr. Page Nature, 73. The French lichenists, Tulasne and Itzigsohn.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., II. viii. (ed. 2), 189. A glance at a few of the more obscure genera,… will convince every lichenist that much yet remains to be done.
