Amédée Masclef (9 August 1858

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– 1916) was a French

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and botanist best known for his three-volume 400-plate work 'Atlas des plantes de France' published in

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in 1891 and re-issued in 1893. It was regarded as complementary to "Nouvelle flore du Nord de la France et de la Belgique" by

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and

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. He was Professor of Natural Sciences at the Petit séminaire d'

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and was a member of the

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from 1885. He also published 'Catalogue Raisonne des Plantes Vasculaires du Departement du Pas-de-calais' (1886), and 'Les plantes d'Europe' (Paris : C. Reinwald : Schleicher frères, 1905), and 'Contributions à la flore du département du Pas-de-Calais. Notice sur l'herbier du musée de la ville d'Arras (1885)'. Upon leaving the Petit séminaire he took up the position of curator of Gaston Bonnier's herbarium, and in 1905 was recorded as living in Champlan. Also published was 'Les Plantes d'Europe' (5 editions published between 1890 and 1953 in French). He was survived by his wife, Leonie Marie Adele Mekarski (1869–1916), whom he had married in 1891, and was the daughter of Louis Jean Népomocène Mekarski and Fanny Louise Mekarski (born Conchon). Amédée and Leonie had one daughter, Louise Fanny Léonie Masclef, who married one Gommerat.https://www.myheritage.com/names/l%C3%A9onie_masclef

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* Atlas des Plantes de France *
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