Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of

Bouville, Eure-et-Loir Bouville () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department The following is a list of the 365 communes of the Eure-et-Loir department of France. The communes co ...

Biography

He taught school in

Chartres Chartres () is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 170,763 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres (as d ...

, and was the author of a highly regarded work on

mosses Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and horn ...

and

liverworts The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ge ...

titled ''Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces'' (1892). He also published a book involving

bryology Bryology (from Greek , a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying or ...

Eure-et-Loir Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Douinia ''Douinia'' is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Scapaniaceae. The species of this genus are found in Eurasia and Northern America. The genus name of ''Douinia'' is in honour of Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944), who was a Frenc ...

'' from the family

Scapaniaceae Scapaniaceae is a family of liverworts in order Jungermanniales Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other liverworts ar ...

is named in his honor in 1928.BFNA_ProvPubl
Bryophyte Flora of North America, Provisional Publication, Douinia

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.'' 1858 births 1944 deaths People from Eure-et-Loir 20th-century French botanists Bryologists 19th-century French botanists {{France-botanist-stub