Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard

Pierre Bulliard
Plate 72 from Herbier de la France

Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (also Pierre Bulliard, ca. 1742 Aubepierre-en-Barrois Haute-Marne 26 September 1793 Paris) was a French physician and botanist.

Bulliard studied in Langres, afterwards in Clairvaux and in Paris. There he also practiced as a physician. He tutored the son of General Claude Dupin (1686-1769).

Bulliard’s Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique (1783) contributed to the spreading and consolidation of botanical terminology and the Linné system. It was especially important in the area of the mycology, containing descriptions of 393 out of 602 table mushrooms.

Significant species he described include the cep (Boletus edulis), the common inkcap (Coprinopsis atramentaria) and the poisonous livid pinkgill (Entoloma sinuatum)

Publications

References

  1. "Author Query for 'Bull.'". International Plant Names Index.
  2. Bulliard JBF. (1782). Herbier de la France. Vol 2 (in French). Paris, France: P.F. Didot. pp. 49–96, plate 60. Retrieved 2009-11-24.

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