Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré (1827–1887) was a Belgian

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 ...

. He held the position of Professor of Botany at the

Université libre de Bruxelles The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...

. He issued the

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''Les Mousses de la Belgique'' (1870–1871).

Works

* ''Flore analytique du centre de la Belgique'' (with Félix Muller) (Victor Devaux et Cie, Bruxelles,1866) * ''Revue des mousses acrocarpes de la flore belge'' (C Annoot-Braeckman, Gand, 1869) * ''Opuscules de botanique. II: Notice sur l' Alsine pallida Dmtr.'' (Bulletins de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique, tome II, n. 1) * ''Opuscules de botanique. III: Deuxième herborisation de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique'' (Bulletins de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique, tome II, n. 3, Juin 1863) * ''Opuscules de botanique. IV: Troisième herborisation de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique'' (Bulletins de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique, tome III, n. 3, Juillet 1864) * ''Biographie de Charles Linné'', a biography of Carl Von Linné, 1872

References

1827 births 1887 deaths 19th-century Belgian botanists {{Belgium-botanist-stub