Edmond-Gustave CAMUS (1852-1915), botanist, vice-president o - Lot 30

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Edmond-Gustave CAMUS (1852-1915), botanist, vice-president o - Lot 30
Edmond-Gustave CAMUS (1852-1915), botanist, vice-president of the Société Botanique de France, founder of the Société pour l'Étude de la Flore Française (1894); a leading orchid specialist, he is the author of L'iconographie des orchidées des environs de Paris. 25 autograph letters and cards to mycologist Émile Boudier (1828-1920). 53 pp. in-8 and in-12. Pais and Saint-Tropez, 1891-1914. Beautiful correspondence devoted to botany and orchids in particular, examining those sent by Boudier and other botanists. "I received your shipment in excellent condition, which enabled me to prepare the plants you sent me with the greatest care. This is the pure type of O. angustifolia figured by Reichb. and which should be made a synonym of O. Traunsteinori Santi. It's very interesting for the northern region of the Paris flora; I'd only seen it in Chantilly, but O. latifolia and numerous hybrid forms can also be found there. I am therefore happy to have this pure type, which is all the more valuable to me as it comes from the canton of Isle-Adam [...] In addition to plants of interest to me but not new to the region, I had the good fortune to find Carex evoluta Hartin, a hybrid of C. riparia and C. filiformis. The latter plant is not common anywhere in France, so the hybrids it can produce are very rare. In northern Europe, however, C. evoluta is occasionally found in Silesia, Russia and Sweden. I had the plate of this Carex to do for M. Morot's book, I knew the plant well and I think I should attribute my good fortune to the fact that the plant had, as they say, stayed in my eye [...]". They organized botanical excursions together, and continued to analyze the orchids sent to him. "[...] Mademoiselle Beleze, a resident of Montfort-L'amaury, sent me 2 crates of orchids, among which were 3 fine specimens of an Orchis in full bloom when most of the Morio had passed, with the outer sepals spread out or at least erect. You certainly recognize your Bouffémont plant. The O. in question was in the middle of the O. Morio! Lalifolia! Cariaphora! The incarnata was missing; this is an important observation, as the Montfort specimens were clearly fistulous, a character that was missing from the Bouffémont plants [...]".
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