Jean-Marie BACHELOT DE LA PYLAIE (Fougères 1786-1856), botan - Lot 3

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Jean-Marie BACHELOT DE LA PYLAIE (Fougères 1786-1856), botan - Lot 3
Jean-Marie BACHELOT DE LA PYLAIE (Fougères 1786-1856), botanist and explorer; a pupil of Cuvier, he explored Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, and extensively herorized Brittany. Autograph letter signed to botanist and mycologist Louis Questier (1810-1879), parish priest of Thury-en-Valois. 1 p. folio. Thury, October 17, 1848. Beautiful letter to his "learned colleague in rebus herbariis". "In the name of Flora and Minerva, you are invited to visit the sandstone-capped slopes known as the Chateau stones near Acy, where a curious harvest of diverse mushrooms awaits you. I was delighted to visit this interesting locality, where I collected 3 or 4 Gyrophora, which are usually found on much higher rocks. I was surprised to find neither stereocaulon paschale, spheroph. Globiferus, Lecanora parella, Tartarea, nor any of our saxatiles from western France! [...]. Please study the flower of the Statice armeria on your hillsides, compared with that on the ocean shores. The leaves are often much broader, the stem always glabrous, and the calyx and corolla may also offer you some notable differences [...]".
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