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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Dr. (1656 - 1708)
Royal botanist and professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pitton_de_Tournefort BotanistRelevant locations: Lived at or near Paris, Île-de-France
Workplace or place of business Jardin des plantes
References in Documents:
MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.) 40 An fungus lapideus major in Nilo natus C.B. Saxeus Nili major Clusij Non esse fungum Lap. in Nilo natum; nos monuit Ds. Dr. Tournfort. Botanicus Regius Paris. Fungus saxeus minor Clusij in Exot. Quoad figurã huic ad amussim respondet. Perhaps the larger Nile : see Caspar Bauhin . The greater Clusius ? We are advised by Dr Tournefort , Royal Botanist in Paris , that this is not a Nile . The lesser Clusius (1605, p. 125)
, formed in theFungus lapideus
Saxeus niliof
Fungus lapideusfrom the
Fungus saxeusof
MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.) 42 Corallium albidum latum et compressũ ad extrema tantum ramosum: S. Corallium spurium ex varijsquasi tegulis sibi invicem incumbentibus confl atum. Corallium foliatum. D. White coral , broad and flat, densely packed with branches at the tips; or false coral composed of branches lying one on top of the other like roof-tiles. The Dr Tournefort .
risTournefort.
Corallium foliatumof
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 266. Lychnis
281.Tournefort Paris , Charles Preston ,
Hispanica Kalifolio multiflora
El. Bot.
281.
This Dr.
Botanick Professor of theRoyal Garden
at
at
gave to my Ingenious Friend Dr.
from
whom I received it.
whom I received it
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 27. Dr. PITTON TOURNEFORT , Royal Garden at PARIS . To this
sent me, and am daily in expectation, according to his
Physici
an, one of the
an
Royal Academyof
Sciences, and
Botanick Profes
sorof the
sor
Celebrated Bota
nistI am obliged for some
nist
Alpineand
PyrenæanPlants he lately
sent me, and am daily in expectation, according to his
Pro
mises, of
mises
greater Collectionsfrom him.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 584.
spicâ triuncialiChelsey , Tournefort .
Ægilops
Gramenfive
Festucaaltera cap. duris spica longiore
Bot. Monsp. app. alt.
Festucacapitulis duris spica longa, seu duplo longiori
Hort.
Catholic. supplement. alter.
Catholic
GramenFestucæ capitulis duris
spicâ triunciali
Instit. Rei Herbar. I first observed this in our
Physick Garden at
and have since received it from that
celebrated Botanist, Dr.
celebrated Botanist, Dr
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 762. Darea Americana major pubescens.
tataAme
rica by the Reverend Charles Plumier that
who lately published hisHistoire des Plantes de l' Amerique and
sent me by Dr.Tournefort Botanick Professor Royal
Garden at Paris .
Filiculadigi
tata
PlumierInst. Rei
Herb. 542.
Very like the last but much
bigger and hoary. This and the next were gathered in
bigger and hoary
rica
Curious Botanist
who lately published his
sent me by Dr.
of the
Garden
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 27. I am again charged to that Dr. PITTON
TOURNEFORT ,
andRoyal Garden at PARIS , for not only his
which he gathererd himself in
Celebrated Botanist
TOURNEFORT
Physician, one of the
Royal, Academyof Sciences,
and
Botanick Professorof the
Institutions,Rei Herbariæ , but also for many
CuriousPlants , several of
which he gathererd himself in
.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 8. Androsace CHUSAN . Cortusæ
nost. 858.
Linum Umbilicatum,Dr
Tournefort
Matthiolifolio
Mus.
nost. 858.
I take this elegant Plant to come next of kind to
Linum Umbilicatum,
which the accurate Botanist,
Tournefort
callsOmphalodes.
Excerpts from Ornithology (1876) related to Sir Thomas Browne's and the Tradescants' collections Voyage to the
East Indies