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### Author
Lamotte, Martial (1820-1883), French pharmacist and botanist at Riom, professor at the École de médecine et de pharmacie at Clermont-Ferrand.
**Abbreviated name**: *Lamotte* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lamotte*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection CLF|CLF]] (30.000); other material at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection P|P]]. – Lamotte's *Iconographie et descriptions des champignons de l' Auvergne*, 6 vols., 865 watercolour plates, is described by Collins (Sotheby 432).
*Ref*.: Loiseau, Monde Pl. 369: 5. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 6(1): 786; Backer p. 313; Barnhart 2: 338; BL 2: 111, 678; BM 3: 1051; CSP 3: 822, 8: 153, 12: 424; Dawson p. 163, 942; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Lamotte"); IH 1(ed. 6): 361, 2: 408; Jackson p. 226, 277, 278; Kew 3: 356; LS 14828; Plesch p. 296; PR 5021-5023; Rehder 5: 484; Sotheby no. 432 (mss. iconogr.); Tucker 1: 410.
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1884: 39.
- Bureau, L. E., Bull. Soc. bot. France 30: 109. 1883.
#### Composite works
With H. Lecoq, (4278) *Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du Plateau central de la France*, 1847-\[1848\] (Ann. Sci. Auvergne 20: 101-527. 1847). – See also no. 4374.
#### Eponymy
The etymology of *Lamottea* Pomel (1860) and *Lamottea* Pomel (1870, non 1860) could not be established.
### Publications
##### n.4152. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe centrale
**Title**
*Catalogue des plantes vasculaires de l'Europe centrale*, comprenant la France, la Suisse, l'Allemagne,... Paris (Chez J.-B. Baillière,...), Londres (Chez H. Baillière,...) 1847. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Eur. centr.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jun-Dec 1847 (p. 6: 20 Mai 1847), p. \[1\]-103. *Copies*: MO, NY, USDA. – A second edition of Lamotte, *Catalogue des plantes phanérogames* qui croissent spontanément en France ...., Ann. Sci. Auvergne 13: 16-92. 1840.
##### n.4153. Études sur le genre Sempervivum
**Title**
*Études sur le genre Sempervivum*, Lin.... Clermont-Ferrand (Ferdinand-Thébaud,...) 1864. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Étud. Sempervivum*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Feb-Oct 1864 (read at Acad. 14 Jan 1864; BSBF rd. 11 Nov 1864), p. \[1\]-57. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted from Mém. Acad. Sci. Clermont-Ferrand 6: \[257\]-311. 1864 (*Copy*: MO).
*Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 11 (bibl.): 147-148. 1864.
##### n.4154. Prodrome de la flore du Plateau central de la France
**Title**
*Prodrome de la flore du Plateau central de la France* comprenant l'Auvergne, le Velay, la Lozère, les Cévennes, une partie du Bourbonnais et du Vivarais. Paris (G. Masson,...) 1877. Oct. †.
**Abbreviated title**: *Prodr. fl. Plat, centr.*
**Notes**
*Part 1*: Oct 1876 (t.p. reprint 1877; J. Bot. Nov 1876; Bot. Zeit. Nov 1876; BSbF Oct 1876), p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-355. – Mém. Sci. Clermont-Ferrand 17: 117-226, 285-344, 441-620. 1875.
*Part 2*: Jan-Jun 1881 (t.p. reprint; Nat. Nov. Jul(1) 1881; Bot. Zeit. 29 Jul 1881), p. \[i-iii\], 351-628. Mém. Sci. Clermont-Ferrand 20: 455-548. 1878, 21: 125-190, 491-543. 1879, 22: 112-174. 1880.
*Copies*: G, MO, NY, USDA.
*Ref*.: Loret, H., Etude du Prodrome de M. Lamotte, s.l. 1882, 21 p., Rev. Sci. nat. Jun 1882.
- Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 22 (bibl.): 191. 1875, 28: 76. 1881.