> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 166](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265363) of TL-2 Suppl. II
> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/793-1) LSID 793-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7149945) QID Q7149945
> Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]]
> [!example] See also [[Billot, Paul Constantin|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Billot, Paul Constantin (1796-1863), Alsatian botanist educated at the Collège de Pont-à-Mousson 1807-1813, at the imperial Lyceum in Strassbourg 1813, sometime in the trade, e.g. that of the hop-culture, inspector of the bridges and roads at Hagenau 1813-1834, turned to science, Bachelier-ès-lettres and Bachelier-ès-sciences 1834, from then on teacher, later professor of natural sciences at Hagenau 1834-1861.
**Abbreviated name**: *Billot* \[standard form in IPNI: *Billot*\]
#### Herbarium and types
See TL-2/1: 215-216 for his exsiccatae (*Flora Galliae et Germaniae exsiccata* 1846-1866, after his death continued by Vital Bavoux et al.). Sets at [[Collection AUT|AUT]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BHV|BHV]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BORD|BORD]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GE|GE]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection HEID|HEID]], [[Collection JE|JE]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MPU|MPU]], [[Collection NTM|NTM]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection RO|RO]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection WAG|WAG]] and at the Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde, Bad Dürckheim.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 1: 61; Barnhart 1: 187; BM 1: 163; Bossert p. 39; Clokie p. 132; CSP 1: 366; DTS 1: 21-22; Frank 3(Anh.): 11; GR p. 305-306; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 75; Jackson p. 227; Kew 1: 246; LS 2983; PR 777; Rehder 1: 349; TL-2/1: 215-216 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 84, 523; Urban-Berl. p. 330.
#### Biofile
- Anon., ÖBZ 13: 238 ("337") 1863 (d. 19 Apr 1863); Flora 46: 255. 1863.
- B., Bot. Zeit. 21(34): 251. 1863 (continuation of the *Flora Galliae et Germaniae exsiccata* by Bavoux and Pailloux).
- Bay, J.C., Flora Gesamt-Reg. 26-100: 4. 1910.
- Buchenau, F., Bot. Jahrb. 7: 156. 1885 (on identification of B's exsicc.).
- Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 396. 1880.
- Cosson, E., Comp. fl. atl. 1: 21-22. 1881 (on B's *Herbarium Fontanesianum* normale).
- Cosson, E. and M.C. Durieu, Expl. Sci. Algérie, Bot. 2: xxi. 1868 (id.).
- Duval-Jouve, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 10: 214-217. 1863 (detailed obit., reproduced also an obit. originally published by the Courier Bas-Rhin of 21 Apr 1863).
- Fournier, E., Bull. Soc. bot. France 11(Bibl.): 143-144, 192. 1864 (on exsicc.), *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 420. 1877.
- Hedge, I.C. and J.M. Lamond, Index Coll. Edinburgh herb. 60. 1970.
- Salmon, C.E., J. Bot. 66: 107-113. 1928 (bibl. note on the *Arch. fl. de France Allem.*, see also TL-2/11. 293).
- Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 21: 156, 251-252. 1863 (obit.), 23: 56-59. 1857 (rev. first part 56 p., *Annot. fl. France Allemagne*).
- Werner, R.G., Bull. Acad. Soc. Corr. Sci., Nancy 6(2): 102. 1966.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 96. 1905 (on portr.).
#### Handwriting
Wiss. Z. Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, Math.-Nat. 19: 298. 1970.