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### Author
Léon, Frère \[Sauget y Barbis, Joseph Sylvestre\], \[Hermano Léon\] (1871-1955), French-born botanist; member of the Frères des écoles chrétiennes; settled at La Salle, Havana, Cuba in 1905; author of *Flora de Cuba* (1946-1963); Dr. phil. h.c. Columbia 1927.
**Abbreviated name**: *Léon* \[standard form in IPNI: *León*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection HAC|HAC]]. Cuban material in many herbaria.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 210; BL 1: 225, 305; Bossert p. 234; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Leon"); IH 1(ed. 6): 395, 2: 431; Kew 3: 412; Lenley p. 262; Plesch p. 325.
- Alain, Taxon 5: 125-130. 1956; Contr. ocas. Museo Hist. nat. Collegio "De la Salle" 15: 1-2. 1956.
- Anon., Torreya 83(4): 305-307. 1956 (portr.).
- Leon, Hermano & Hermano Alain, Flora de Cuba 4: frontisp. 1957 (portr.).
- Ponce de Leon, A. et al., Homenaje postumo al Dr. José Silvestre Sauget (Hermano Leon). Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de la Habana. s.d., 53 p. (bibl., portr.).
#### Composite works
Leon, Hermano (J. S. Sauget) and Hermano Alain (E. E. Liogier), *Flora de Cuba*. Habana, Rio Piedras 1946-1963, contr. occ. Mus. Hist. nat. La Salle 8, 10, 13, 16, part 5 publ. indep. at Rio Piedras. – *Parts 1-4*: reprinted Koenigstein-Taunus (Otto Koeltz) 1975, ISBN 3-87429-077-8, in three volumes of which vol. 3 is a reissue of the original sheets of part 5 (see Taxon 24: 382. 1975).
#### Eponymy
*Saugetia* A. S. Hitchcock & A. Chase (1917).
### Publications
##### n.4401. Las exploraciones botanicas de Cuba
**Title**
*Las exploraciones botanicas de Cuba* reseña comparativa de la contribución del Dr. N. L. Britton y de los botánicos anteriores, al conocimiento de la flora cubana... Habana (Imprenta "el Siglo xx" de la Sociedad editorial de Cuba contemporánea...) 1918. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Explor. bot. Cuba*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1918, p. \[1\]-47, 1 sheet maps. *Copy*: US. – Published in the "Memorias de la Sociedad Poey." For Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859-1934), see TL 2: 332-348; this publication followed upon the nomination of Britton as Socio honorario of the Sociedad cubana de historia natural Felipe Poey on 26 Mai 1917.