OISE. Abbé MORELLE, parish priest of Verberie and botanist. - Lot 332

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OISE. Abbé MORELLE, parish priest of Verberie and botanist. - Lot 332
OISE. Abbé MORELLE, parish priest of Verberie and botanist. 27 autograph letters signed to botanist and mycologist Louis Questier (1810-1879), parish priest of Thury-en-Valois. 72 pp. in-8. Verberie, 1845-1853. Addresses on back. Correspondence relating to his research into cryptogamous plants in the vicinity of Verberie. "I am happy to know that you are making such a large and courageous start on cryptogamy [...]. I shall not fail to collect pinpinella magna for you and for myself. I must return to this place in a few weeks [...]. However, despite all these obstacles, I am doing botany. I have collected Asclepias comuti. I have few flowers but very beautiful spiky fruits. This plant can be found in the Verberie cemetery, in all the fields around it; moreover, I've just discovered it near the Verberie coast. I also found melissa officinalis in the Malatte forest. This morning, I studied a Leonurus that I can't quite determine if it's cardiaca. The one I found at Aulmont was misnamed, as they are extremely different [...]". Oise: see also n°36
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