César SARATO (Nice 1829-1893), botanist, curator of the Musé - Lot 102

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César SARATO (Nice 1829-1893), botanist, curator of the Musé - Lot 102
César SARATO (Nice 1829-1893), botanist, curator of the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice; he particularly studied the flora of the Nice area, and provided interesting information to Ardoïno. 7 autograph letters signed to Honoré Ardoïno, accompanied by an autograph list. 23 pp. in-8. Nice, 1865-1867. Very interesting correspondence devoted entirely to the flora of the Nice and Menton areas (one letter illustrated with a series of small sketches), accompanied by a long list of plants and their locations. Let's quote the beginning of the 1st letter, representative of the correspondence as a whole. "I take the liberty of writing to you to inform you of a small find which I believe supports the opinion you expressed in the Catalogue about Plagius virgatus DC. Last year, I came across a specimen of this species with radiating flowers at the edge of the flower head. The stem was transplanted to my garden, where it continued to flower. The flower heads have yellowish, radiating flowers around the circumference. The limbs of these corollas, much larger than those of the disk, are divided into 2-5 unequal, more or less revolute lobes. The radiating flowers, numbering 30 to 40, are tightly packed, as if in two rows. If Plagius virgatus DC were a variety of Leucanthénum vulgare Lam, my plant would be closer to the type. On the contrary, its straw-colored corollas, which are by no means tongue-shaped, make it very different. I have collected the achenes in order to propagate, if possible, this pretty variety of Plagius vigatus [...]".
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