François Fulgis Chevallier Explained

François Fulgis Chevallier (1796, Paris  - 1840) was a French botanist whose areas of interest included fungi, ferns and algae.

In 1821 he received his doctorate with a thesis on indigenous hemlock in regard to considerations as a poison and a drug. Dissertation sur les ciguës indigènes, considérées comme poisons et comme médicaments.^[1] Other noted publications by Chevallier include:

• Essai sur les hypoxylons lichénoïdes, comprenant les genres Hysterium, Polymorphum, Opegrapha, Arthonia, Schizoxylum, Verrucaria, Pertusaria..., 1822 - Essay on lichenoid hypoxylons.
• Histoire des Graphidées, accompagnée d'un tableau analytique des genres. Paris, 1824 - History of Graphidaceae, accompanied by an analytic table of genres.
• Flore générale des environs de Paris, selon la méthode naturelle : Description de toutes les plantes agames, cryptogames et phanérogames qui y croissent spontanément, 1836 - General flora found around Paris, according to natural methods: Description of all agamic plants, cryptogams and phanerogams that grow there spontaneously.
• Fungorum et Byssorum illustrationes quos ut plurimum novos, trecentos et ultra cum caeteric minus bene cognitis, in divasis Europae regionibus collegit, ad virum de lineavit, 1837.^[2]

The subgenus Chevaliera (genus Aechmea, subfamily Bromelioideae) is named in his honor.^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ERMCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA61 Google Books
2. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=atitle&index=224711&key=chevallier%02%20f%20f%20(francois%20fulgis)%02%201796%201840%01essai%20sur%20les%20hypoxylons%20lichenoides%20comprenant%20les%20genres%20hysterium%20polymorphum%20opegrapha%20arthonia%20&c=x The Online Books Page
3. http://www.bsi.org/brom_info/catalog.html The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens