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### Author
Dufour, Jean Marie Léon (1780-1865), often only named Léon Dufour, French physician, botanist (lichenologist), and entomologist, born Saint-Sever-sur-Adour, Landes, 10 Apr 1780 (1779 and 1783 also given sometimes), studied medicine at Paris until 1806, went to Spain 1823, returned as physician to Saint-Sever, was in contact with many botanists of his time, died 18 Apr 1865.
**Abbreviated name**: *Dufour* \[standard form in IPNI: *Dufour*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection NTM|NTM]], further material at [[Collection BORD|BORD]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection P|P]]-JU.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 5(1): 240, 470, 754; Barnhart 4: 478; BM 1: 486; Colmeiro penins. p. clxxiii; CSP 2: 363-371, 7: 567-568; Frank 3(Anh.): 26; GR p. 275 (important, see also plates); GR cat. p. 62, 275; Hegi 5(3): 1498; Hortus 3: 1192; IH 2: 170; Jackson p. 192; KR p. 146; LS 7409-7421; PR 2455-2457, ed 1: 2765; Rehder 5(index): 240; Stevenson p. 1241; Tucker 1: 214.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 25: 652. 1864; Bull. Soc. bot. France 12(Bibl.): 95. Mai 1865 (d., note).
- Astre, G., Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Toulouse 101: 174. 1966.
- Baillon, H.E., Dict. Bot. 2: 482. 1885.
- Carpenter, M.M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 26. 1945.
- Dufour, Leon, Discours in Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 525-531. 1860, 7: 103-109. 24 Feb 1860, 7: 147-157. Sep 1860, 7: 169-178. Sep-Oct 1860.
- Duris, P. and E. Diaz, Petite histoire naturelle de la première moitié du xixe siècle: Léon Dufour... Bordeaux (Presses Universitaires) 311 p. 1987. *Copy*: U.
- Gaussen, H., Les botanistes aux Pyrénées, Léon Dufour (1780-1865) M. Acad. Sci. I.B.L.T. sér. 13. 6: 275-300. 1944.
- Gilbert, P., Compendium biogr. Lit. deceased Entomol. 99. 1977.
- Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 16: 359. 1980 (Lich. at M), 18: 307. 1982.
- Hue, A.M., Bull. Soc. bot. France 55, Mém. 12: 1-19. Apr (sero) 1908.
- Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 108. 1972.
- Ilg, W., Hoppea 42: 322. 1984.
- Lack, H.W. and O. von Sydow, Willdenowia 13: 420. 1983.
- Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11(1): 8. 1979 (NTM).
- Laval, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 52: xlii-xliii. 1897 (on herb.).
- Roumeguère, C., Leon Dufour botaniste, Paris (J.-B. Baillière et fils) 1878. 27 p. as reprint (biogr., portr.) (Reprinted from bull. Soc. études Sci. nat. de Nîmes 6. 1878).
- Sayre, G., Bryologist 67: 119. 1961.
- Steinberg, C.H., Webbia 32(1): 23, 24 (handwriting). 1977.
- Willkomm, M., Grundzüge Pflanzenverbreitung Iber. Halbinsel. Veget. Erde I: 10-11. 1892.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 112. 1903, 3(3): 101. 1905 (tab. 128, photogr.).
### Publications
##### n.31.888. genre Opégraphe
**Title**
Révision du *genre Opégraphe* de la flore française, et observations critiques sur des espèces de ce genre... Extrait du Journal de Physique... 1818. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1818, cover-t.p., p. \[3\]-28. *Copies*: G(2). – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. Arts 82: 201-225. 1818.
##### n.31.889. Révision
**Title**
*Révision* des *genres Cladonia*, Scyphophorus, Helopodium et Baeomyces de la Flore française... Bruxelles... 1821. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1821, p. \[1\]-32. *Copy*: U. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. gén. Sci. phys. 8: 41-73. 1821.
##### n.31.890. champignons comestibles
**Title**
Notice botanique et culinaire sur les *champignons comestibles* du département des *Landes*... Mont-de-Marsan (P.-V. Leclercq...) 1840. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Champ. comestibles Landes*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1840, p. \[1\]-14. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Soc. agric. Landes 1840 (n.v.).
##### n.31.891. Diagnoses
**Title**
*Diagnoses* et observations critiques sur *quelques plantes* d'*Espagne* mal connues ou nouvelles... Extrait du Bulletin de la Société botanique de France... 1860-1861. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Nov 1860, Dec 1860, Feb-Mar 1861 (fide Leussink, Taxon 34(4): 586. 1985), p. \[1\]-38.
*Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. bot. France 7(4): 221-227 (read 13 Apr), 240-247 (read 27 Apr), (5): 323-328 (read 11 Mai), 347-352 (read 25 Mai), (6): 426-433 (read 8 Jun), 441-448 (read 22 Jun 1860). 1860-1861.