Jean-Maurice Casimir Arvet-Touvet (1841–1913) was a French

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born in

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. His early botanical investigations involved species native to

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, publishing in 1871 ''Essai sur les plantes du Dauphiné''. Subsequently, he devoted his energies to research of the genus ''

Hieracium ''Hieracium'' (), known by the common name hawkweed and classically as (from ancient Greek ιεράξ, 'hawk'), is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and closely related to dandelion (''Taraxacum''), chicory ('' Cichorium'') ...

'' (hawkweed). With his friend, Marie Clément Gaston Gautier (1841–1911), he conducted studies of ''Hieracium'' found in the

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and the

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. With Gautier he issued a 20 booklet exsiccata series of the genus. During the last few years of his life he was involved with publication of the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae refer to numbered collections of dried herbarium specimens respectivel ...

series ''Hieraciorum praesertim Galliae et Hispaniae catalogus systematicus''.

Selected publications

* ''Essai sur les plantes du Dauphiné : diagnosis specierum novarum vel dubio praeditarum'', 1871. * ''Hieracium des Alpes françaises ou occidentales de l'Europe. Lyon, Genève, Bâle'' : Henri George lib. ; Paris : J. Lechevalier, 1888. * ''Hieraciotheca gallica et hispanica'' in collaboration with Gaston Gautier. Exsiccata en 20 fascicules, 1908. * ''Hieraciorum praesertim Galliae et Hispaniae catalogus systematicus''.

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, Lib. des Sc. nat. Léon Lhomme, 1913.

References

Museum Grenoble
(biography)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arvet-Touvet, Casimir 19th-century French botanists 1913 deaths 1841 births People from Isère