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French botanist and physician
Henri Ernest Baillon
Diploglottis cunninghamii , Baillon's Dictionnaire de botanique
Henri Ernest Baillon was a French
botanist and
physician . He was born in
Calais on 30 November 1827 and died in
Paris on 19 July 1895.
Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the
Légion d'honneur in 1867 and joined the
Royal Society in 1894.
Baillon put together the "Dictionnaire de botanique", for which
Auguste Faguet produced the
wood engravings . The plant genus
Baillonia (family
Verbenaceae ) was named in his honor by
Henri Théophile Bocquillon .
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The standard
author abbreviation Baill. is used to indicate this person as the author when
citing a
botanical name .
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Selected publications
Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées (1858)
Monographie des Buxacées et des Stylocérée (1859)
Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des Conifères (1860)
Recherches sur l’organisation, le développement et l’anatomie des Caprifoliacées (1864)
Adansonia, recueil périodique d’observations botaniques (12 volumes, 1866–1879)
Histoire des plantes (thirteen volumes, 1867-1895)
Dictionnaire de botanique (four volumes, 1876–1892)
Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar (three volumes)
Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique (1883-1884).
Baillon, M. H. (1 November 1893).
"L'organisation et les affinités des Campynémées" . Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris (in French). 2 (140): 1105–1109.
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