Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (also Pierre Bulliard; 24 November 1752, in Aubepierre-sur-Aube

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) was a French

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and

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. Bulliard studied in

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, where he became interested in natural history, and afterwards a position was obtained for him in the abbey in Clairvaux and later he moved to Paris where he study medicine. There he also practiced as a physician. He tutored the son of General

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(1686-1769). He was an able draughtsman and also learnt to engrave. He invented a way of printing natural history plates in colour and used the method in his own publications. In 1779 he commenced a work on the poisonous plants of France. It was seized by the police on the grounds that it was a dangerous work. Bulliard's ''Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique'' (1783) contributed to the spreading and consolidation of botanical terminology and the Linné system. It was especially important in the area of the

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, containing descriptions of 393 out of 602 table mushrooms. Significant species he described include the cep (''

Boletus edulis ''Boletus edulis'' (English: cep, penny bun, porcino or porcini) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus ''Boletus''. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere across Europe, Asia, and North America, it does not occu ...

'') and the common inkcap (''

Coprinopsis atramentaria ''Coprinopsis atramentaria'', commonly known as the common ink cap or inky cap, is an edible (although poisonous when combined with alcohol) mushroom found in Europe and North America. Previously known as ''Coprinus atramentarius'', it is th ...

'').

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*1776-80, ''Flora Parisiensis'' (the illustrations of which he drew, engraved and coloured himself) *1780-93
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' *1783 ''Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique'' *1784 ''Histoire des plantes vénéneuses et suspectes de la France'' *1791-1812 ''Histoire des champignons de la France'' completed by

Étienne Pierre Ventenat Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1 March 1757 – 13 August 1808) was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat (1765–1794). While employed as director of the ecclesiastic library Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, V ...

(1757-1808). *1796 ''Aviceptologie''

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* 18th-century French botanists French mycologists 18th-century French physicians 1752 births 1793 deaths {{mycologist-stub

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