Edmond Gustave Camus Explained

Edmond Gustave Camus (1852 – 22 August 1915) was a French pharmacist and botanist known for his work with orchids.

A pharmacist by vocation, he was a resident of L'Isle-Adam, a community near Paris. He was the father of botanist Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879–1965), with whom he collaborated on several projects, and the painter Blanche-Augustine Camus (1881-1968).^[1] For a period of time, he served as vice-president of the Société botanique de France.^{[2] [3]}

As a taxonomist, he was the binomial authority of many species, most notably within the family Orchidaceae. With Aimée Camus, he described numerous species from the family Salicaceae.^[4]

Selected works

• Iconographie des orchidées des environs de Paris. Paris: 1885 – Iconography of orchids from the environs of Paris.
• Catalogue des plantes de France, de Suisse et de Belgique. 1888 – Catalog of plants from France, Switzerland and Belgium.
• Monographie des orchidées de France. Paris: 1894 – Monograph of orchids from France.
• Orchidées hybrides, ou, Critiques du Gers. 1898 – Orchid hybrids.
• Les plantes médicinales indigènes. 1901 – Indigenous medicinal plants.
• Classification des saules d'Europe et monographie des saules d'France (with Aimée Camus). Paris: J.Mersch, 1904-5 – Classification of willows found in Europe and a monograph of French willows.
• "A Contribution to the Study of Spontaneous Hybrids in the European Flora" (published in English, 1907).
• Monographie des orchidées de l'Europe: de l'Afrique septentrionale, de l'Asie Mineure et des provinces Russes transcaspiennes (with Paul Bergon, Aimée Camus). Paris: Jacques Lechevalier, 1908 – Monograph of orchids from Europe, northern Africa, Asia Minor and the Russian Trans-Caspian provinces.
• Iconographie des orchidées d'Europe et du bassin Méditerranéen, (with Aimée Camus). Paris: P. Lechevalier, 1921-1929 – Iconography of orchids from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

He also made notable contributions to the multi-volume Flore de France: Ou, Description Des Plantes Qui Croissent Spontanément en France, en Corse Et en Alsace-Lorraine. ^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://www.facebook.com/pg/female.artists.in.history/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1631340263817523 Female Artists in History: Blanche Augustine Camus (French painter)
2. http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0556-1.pdf The University of Chicago Library
3. http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=1237 Zurich herbaria
4. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=E.G.Camus&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
5. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Edmond-Gustave+Camus%22 Google Search