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> [!example] See also [[Billot, Paul Constantin (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Billot, Paul Constantin (1796-1863), Alsatian botanist at Hagenau.
**Abbreviated name**: *Billot* \[standard form in IPNI: *Billot*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown. His exsiccatae (see below) in many herbaria.
*Exsiccatae*: *Flora Galliae et Germaniae exsiccata*, herbier servant de complément à celui du Dr. F. Schultz, 1846-1861 (-1878)
|cent. |dates |cent. |dates |p.\* |cent. |dates |p.|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |1846 |9 |Feb 1852 | |17 |Dec 1855 |1-|
|2 |1847 |10 |Feb 1853 | |18 |Dec 1855 |-38|
|3 |1848 |11 |Feb 1853 | |19 |Dec 1856 |39-|
|4 |1850 |12 |1854 | |20 |Dec 1856 |-100|
|5 |1850 |13 |1854 | |21 |Dec 1857 |101-|
|6 |Feb 1851 |14 |1854 | |22 |Dec 1857 |-116|
|7 |Feb 1851 |15 |Feb 1855 | |23 |Jun 1858 |117-|
|8 |Feb 1852 |16 |Feb 1855 | |24 |Jun 1858 |-140|
> Table continued:
|cent. |dates |p. |cent. |dates |p.\* |cent. |dates|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|25 |Feb 1859 |141- |31 |Feb 1861 |- |37 |1866|
|26 |Feb 1859 |-164 |32 |Feb 1861 |- |38 |1869|
|27 |Dec 1859 |165- |33 |Feb 1861 |-297 |39 |1869|
|28 |Dec 1859 |-210 |34 |1864 | |40 |1869|
|29 |Feb 1860 |211- |35 |1864 | |41 |1878|
|30 |Feb 1860 |- |36 |1866|
\* pages of *Annotations* (see below).
Continued after Billot's death by Vital Bavoux, Albert Guichard, Paul Guichard and Justin Paillot, Besançon 1864-1878.
Billot also published *Herbarium fontanesianum normale* (100 nos., collected by Clauson).
*Ref*.: IH 2: 75; DTS 1: 21-22; Kew 1: 246; LS 2983.
- Billot, Annotations à la flore de France et d'Allemagne. Haguenau 1855-1862.
- Candolle, Phytographie 396. 1880.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 132. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 60. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 1: 61; Barnhart 1: 187; BM 1: 163; Bossert p. 39; CSP 1: 366; DTS 1: 21-22; GR p. 305-306; Jackson p. 227; Kew 1: 246; LS 2983; PR 777.
- Anon., Flora 46: 255. 1863.
- Duval-Jouve, Bull. Soc. bot. France 10: 214-216. 1863.
- Cosson & Durieu, Expl. Sci. Algérie. Bot. 2: xxi. 1868.
- Cosson, Comp. Fl. Atl. 1: 21-22. 1881.
- Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 96. 1905.
- Bay, Flora Gesamt-Register 26-100: 4. 1910.
#### Eponymy
(genus): *Billotia* C. H. Schultz-Bip. (1841); (journal): *Billotia* ou notes de botanique publiées par V. Bavoux... Besançon. 1864-1878.
*Note*: *Billotia* R. Brown ex G. Don (1832) and *Billottia* Colla (1824) are dedicated to Tecofila Billotti-Colla (*fl. 1830*), Italian botanical artist (daughter of Luigi Aloysius Colla), q.v.
### Publications
##### n.518. Annotations à la flore de France et d'Allemagne
**Title**
*Annotations à la flore de France et d'Allemagne*. Haguenau (Bas-Rhin) (V. Edler) 1855 \[-1862\]. Oct. †.
**Abbreviated title**: *Annot. fl. France Allemagne*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: In parts 1855-1862, p. \[1\]-297, Notice sur P. C. Billot par F. Busnot \[1\]-4, table des matières \[1\]-4, *pl. i-v* (lithographs). *Copies*: B, L. – Text accompanying sets 17-28 of the above-mentioned exsiccatae, or issued some weeks later; p. 211-297 came out only in 1862. The preface (p. 4) is dated 10 Dec 1855. Followed by *Billotia ou Notes de botanique.* Besançon 1864-1878, 148 p., Oct., published by V. Bavoux, A. Guichard, P. Guichard and J. Paillot (see PR 10700).
*Ref*.: BM 1: 51, 163; DTS 1: 22; Jackson p. 227; Kew 1: 246; PR 777.