Olivier Jules Richard (22 March 1836 – 7 January 1896) was a French
botanist
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,
mycologist
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and lichenologist who published on the anatomy and symbiosis of
lichens
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus, fungi species in a mutualism (biology), mutualistic relationship.La Mothe-Saint-Héray, he studied law in
Paris
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. He later served as ''procureur de république'' (prosecutor) in Marennes (1873–76),
La Roche-sur-Yon
La Roche-sur-Yon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. The demonym for its inhabitants is ''Yonnais''.
History
The town expanded significantly after Napo ...
(1876–85) and
Poitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglomerat ...
(1885–91).BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications In 1890 he became a member of the
Société botanique de France
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.
He was an outspoken opponent of
Simon Schwendener
Simon Schwendener (10 February 1829 – 27 May 1919) was a Swiss botanist who was a native of Buchs in the Canton of St. Gallen.
In 1856 he received his doctorate at the University of Zurich, where afterwards he was an assistant to Carl Wilhelm ...
's theory of lichenization.
Publications
Articles
* 1883. ''La synthèse byro-lichénique''. 7 pp. (reprinted from ''Le naturaliste'')
* 1884. "Les céphalodies des lichens et le Schwendenerisme". ''Guide scientifique: Journal de l'amateur des sciences'': 4 pp.
* 1887. "Encore le Schwendenerisme". ''Revue Mycologique'' 9: 98–100. (2 pp.)
* 1891. ''Notice sur la culture de la ramie''. 7 pp. (reprinted from ''Bulletin de la Société d'agriculture, belles-lettres, sciences et arts de Poitiers'' 1891, no. 309)
Books
* 1877. ''Catalogue des lichens des Deux-Sèvres''. L. Clouzot. 50 pp.
* 1881. ''De la Culture, au point de vue ornemental, des plantes indigènes de la Vendée et des départements voisins''. de L. Gasté. 99 pp.
* 1883. ''Étude sur les substratums des Lichens''. L. Clouzot, 87 pp.
* 1884. ''L'autonomie des lichens: ou, Réfutation du Schwendenérisme''. Lechevalier. 59 pp.
* 1884. ''Instructions pratiques pour la formation et la conservation d'un herbier de lichens''. Lechevalier. 44 pp.
* 1888. ''Florule des clochers et des toitures des églises de Poitiers (Vienne).'' Lechevalier. 50 pp.''Florule des clochers et des toitures des églises de Poitiers (Vienne)'' at Google Books