Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (15 February 1834,
Paris
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– 10 June 1884) was a French
botanist
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.
He was particularly interested in
fern
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s. He was a member of the Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique.
The genus ''
Fourniera'' (family
Cyatheaceae
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) is named in his honor.
Google Books
Etymological Dictionary of Grasses
Works
* Articles in ''Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France
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'':
** ''Sur la valeur du genre Aconiopteris'' - 1867, n° 14 - p. 261
** ''Sur les hyménophyllées recueillies dans l'Amérique centrale par MM. Ch. Wright, Fendler et Th. Husnot'' - 1868, n°15 - p. 143
** ''Sur les fougères de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'' - 1869, n°16 - p. 389 à 422
** ''Sur deux Pellaea nouveau'' - 1869, n°16 p. LXVIII
** ''Sur deux fougères nouvelles du Nicaragua'' - 1870, n°17 - p. 236
** ''Sur les hyménophyllées recueillies dans l'Amérique centrale par MM. Ch. Wright, Fendler et Th. Husnot'' - 1872, n°19 - p. 239
** ''Sertum Nicaraguense'' - 1872, n°19 - p. 247
** ''Sur le genre Bommeria'' - 1880, n°27 - p. 327
* With Émile Bescherelle - ''Mexicanas plantas nuper a collectoribus expeditionis scientificae allatas: aut longis ab annis in herbario musei parisiensis depositas praeside J. Decaisne''. Paris - typographeo reipublicae, 1872
* ''Felices nova-Caledoniae. Enumeratio monographica'' - Annales des sciences naturelles, 1873, n°18
* ''Sur les fougères et les lycopodiacées des îles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam'' - Compte-rendu de la société botanique, 1875, n°81 - p. 1139
* ''Fougères nouvelles introduites par M. J. Linden'' - L'illustration horticole, 1876, n°23 - p. 99
* ''Comptes Rendus'' - Congrès International de Botanique Horticole, Paris, 1878 - p. 227-252
References
External links
IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Fournier.
1834 births
1884 deaths
19th-century French botanists
Botanists with author abbreviations
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People from Paris