> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 4](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355123) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5550-1) LSID 5550-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3068597) QID Q3068597 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author L'Herminier, Ferdinand (1802-1866), Guadeloupe physician and botanist of French descent at Point à Pitre, son of the French pharmacist and plant collector Félix Louis L'Herminier. **Abbreviated name**: *L'Herminier* \[standard form in IPNI: *L'Herm.*\] #### Herbarium and types Main collections at [[Collection P|P]] and [[Collection PC|PC]]; important sets also at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection W|W]] and formerly at [[Collection B|B]] (for the greater part destroyed). Both father Félix Louis (1779-1833) and son Ferdinand collected and the labels often do not indicate which of them was the collector. For further details see Urban (1902) and Sayre (1975). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 378 (father and son); CSP 4: 1; IH 2: 439 (entry on p. 271 incorrect); Lasègue p. 315, 491, 505; ME 1: 206, 3: 616 (father); Urban-Berl. p. 306; Tucker 1: 426. - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 16 (Bibl.): 47. 1869 (sale herb.) - Beck, G., Bot. Centralbl. 34: 149. 1888. - Bennett, J., Contr. Charleston Mus. 4: 13-15. 1923 (on Félix L'H.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 428. 1880 (coll.). - Ewan, J., *in* J. F. Leroy, ed., Bot. franç. Amér. nord 36. 1957 (on Félix L'H.). - Fée, A. L. A., Bull. Soc. bot. France 14: 57-58. 1867. - Geiser, S. W., Natural. Frontier 242. 1948 (on Félix L'H.). - Guibourt, N.J.B.G., Notice sur Félix Louis L'Herminier. Paris 1834 (n.v.). - Lacroix, A., Figures de savants 4: 157. 1938 (on Félix L'H.). - Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19: 457. 1847 (on Félix L'H.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 360. 1975. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 12, 52. 1898, 3: 75. 1902 (b. 20 jun 1802, d. 11 Dec 1866; original information provided by A. Duss). - Willis, E., Bull. Charleston Mus. 2: 29-30. 1906 (in exile: superintendent Charleston Mus.). #### Note Félix Louis L'Herminier (b. 18 Mai 1779, Paris; d. 25 Oct 1833, Paris), father of Ferdinand L'H. resided in Guadeloupe from 1795-1829 (except for brief visits to S. Carolina and to St. Bartholomew). The above references refer to father and/or son. The indication" Félix-Léon" in A. Guillaumin, Fl. jard. xxxix, is an error. Further notes on F. L. L'H.: Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 241. 1917. #### Eponymy *Herminiera* Guillemin & Perrottet (1832) [^1]. [^1]: "*Herminiera* Guill. & Perr. 1832 (Fabaceae) Very likely \[is dedicated to\] Félix-Louis L’Herminier (1779–1833), French pharmacist, chemist, naturalist, since 1789 pharmacist in Guadeloupe, collected plants, animals, minerals. It was Félix-Louis L’Herminier who supported Perrottet visiting the island in 1824, while his son Ferdinand L’Herminier was student in France (Guillemin & al., 1832: 201; Maddi & al., 2013: 181; F.A. Maddi, pers. comm.)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)