Léon Gaston Genevier (18 June 1830, in

Saint-Clément-de-la-Place Saint-Clément-de-la-Place () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. See also *Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France. The ...

, near

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

– 11 July 1880, in

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabit ...

) was a French

pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

and botanist. During his career, he was a practicing pharmacist in

Mortagne-sur-Sèvre Mortagne-sur-Sèvre (, literally ''Mortagne on Sèvre'') is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Wes ...

and Nantes. Genevier is best remembered for investigations of the genus ''

Rubus ''Rubus'' is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, with over 1,350 species. Raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries are common, widely distributed members of the genus. Most of t ...

'' native to the

Loire basin The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...

. He was an honorary member of the ''Société d'études scientifiques d'Angers''.

Publications

* ''Extrait de la florule des environs de Mortagne-Sur-Sèvre (Vendée)'', 1866 - Extrait on local flora in the vicinity of

. * ''Essai monographique sur les Rubus du bassin de la Loire'', 1869 - Monograph on ''Rubus'' found in the Loire basin. * ''Etude sur les champignons consommés à Nantes sous le nom de champignon rose ou de couche (Agaricus campestris L.), 1876 * ''Premier supplément à l'essai monographique sur les "Rubus" du bassin de la Loire'' - First supplement to the monograph on ''Rubus'' of the Loire basin.IDREF.fr
(bibliography)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Genevier, Leon Gaston 1830 births 1880 deaths People from Maine-et-Loire French pharmacists 19th-century French botanists