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

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), also known simply as Pierre Bulliard, was a French

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. 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 Claude Dupin (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

mycology Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, genetics, biochemistry, biochemical properties, and ethnomycology, use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, Edible ...

, 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) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus ''Boletus''. It is prized as an edible mushroom. The fungus produces Basidiospore, spore-bearing basidiocarp, fruit bodies ...

'') and the common inkcap (''

Coprinopsis atramentaria ''Coprinopsis atramentaria'', commonly known as the common ink cap, tippler's bane, or inky cap, is a species of fungus. Previously known as ''Coprinus atramentarius'', it is the second best-known ink cap and previous member of the genus '' ...

'').

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*1776-80, ''Flora Parisiensis'' (the illustrations of which he drew, engraved and coloured himself) *1780-93
Herbier de la France
' *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 (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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