> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 866](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069108) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5530-1) LSID 5530-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4256884) QID Q4256884 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Levier, Emile \[Emilio\] (1839-1911), Swiss-born physician, botanist and plant collector in Firenze; specialist on Ricciaceae. **Abbreviated name**: *Levier* \[standard form in IPNI: *Levier*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FI|FI]] (47.000), [[Collection G|G]] (30.000); duplicates widely distributed, see IH. Distributed various named series of plants, e.g. *Bryotheca exotica*, ser. 1, nos. 1-100, Firenze 1907. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 217(!), 5(2): 445; Backer p. 327; Barnhart 2: 374; BL 2: 387, 398, 681; BM 3: 1102; Bossert p. 236; Clokie p. 199; CSP 8: 214, 10: 579, 16: 752, 18: 849; DTS 6(4): 90; GR p. 642; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Levier"); IH 1(ed. 6): 361, 2: 437; Jackson p. 507; Kew 3: 424-425; Lenley p. 264; LS 15344-15345; MW p. 272; NI (alph.) 1496; PFC 1: xlvi; Rehder 5: 508; Saccardo 1: 96, 2: 62, cron. p. xxv; SBC p. 125 ("Lev."); TL-2/1: 296; Tucker 1: 426; Zander ed. 10, p. 684. A.M.S., Bryologist 15(6): 98. 1912. - Ascherson, P. F. A., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenb. 53: (60)-(62). 1912. - Charpin, A. & Burdet, H. M., Musées de Genève 186: 14-19. 1978 (portr.). - Hall, A. D., The genus Tulipa 163. 1946. - Husnot, T. H., Rev. bryol. 39(1): 16, 23. 1912. - Levier, E., Le cas du docteur Otto Kuntze, Florence 1898 (example of L's gift for satyre). - Micheletti, Bull. Soc. bot. Ital. 1911(8): 228. - Nicholson, W. E., Bryologist 21(6): 85-86. 1918. - Radde, G., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Kaukasusländ. 9-10. 1899 (Veg. Erde vol. 3). - Schiffner, V., Ann. bryol. 12: viii. 1939. - Sommier, C. P. S., Nuov. giorn. bot. Ital. ser. 2. 19(1): 5-12. 1912 (portr.). - Willkomm, M., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Iber. Halbinsel 21. 1896 (Veg. Erde vol. 1). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 178, *pl. 136.* 1905. #### Note Reviews and notes on L's bryological works will be found in Rev. bryol. 21: 62, 78. 1894; 22: 48, 62. 1895; 23: 79, 94. 1896; 25: 70. 1898; 26: 23, 102. 1899; 28: 80. 1901; 29: 105. 1902; 30: 109. 1903; 32: 100 1905; 33: 44 45 1906; 34: 38, 40, 55. 1907; 35: 13. 1908. #### Composite works See Leresche, *Deux excursions botaniques*, Lausanne 1880 (no. 4407). #### Handwriting Rec. Auckland Inst. Mus. 12: 109. 1975; Candollea 31: 333-334. 1976. #### Eponymy *Levierella* K. A. F. W. Mueller Hal. (1897); *Levieria* Beccari (1877). ### Publications ##### n.4471. Les tulipes de l'Europe **Title** *Les tulipes de l'Europe* par Emile Levier méd. prat. à Florence avec 10 tables lithographiées. Extrait du Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles de Neuchâtel. Tome xiv. Neuchâtel (Imprimerie de la Société typographique) 1884. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Tulip. Eur.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1884, p. \[1\]-119, *pl. 1-9. Copy*: G. – Reprinted from Bull. Soc. Sci. nat., Neuchâtel, 14: 201-312. 1884. *Ref*.: Levier, E., Arch. Ital. Biol. 5: 48-74. 1884; Malpighia 8: 401-423. 1894 (Néotulipes et paléotulipes). - Pax, F., Bot. Jahrb. 8(Lit.): 39-42. 2 Nov 1886. ##### n.4472. A travers le Caucase **Title** *A travers le Caucase*. Notes et impressions d'un botaniste avec de nombreuses illustrations de F. Huguenin-Lassanguette et des reproductions directes d'après les photographies de MM Stéphan Sommier et Vittorio Sella. Neuchâtel (Attinger frères, éditeurs ...) s.d. \[1894\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Caucase*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1894, p. \[i\]-vii, frontisp. portr. author, \[1\]-346, map, ills. *Copy*: MO. – Report of a trip through the Caucasus in 1890 with S. Sommier. For a report on the botanical collections see under Sommier (Sommier et Levier, Acta Horti Petrop. 16, 1900). *Ref*.: Radde, G., Grundz. Pflanzenverbr. Kaukasusländer 15. 1899 (Veg. Erde 3). ##### n.4473. Le cas du docteur Kuntze **Title** *Le cas du docteur Kuntze*... Florence 1898. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cas Kuntze*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1898, p. \[1\]-12. *Copy*: G. – Witty repudiation of some of Kuntze's statements (mentioning e.g. *Trifolium charlatanicum* var. *levierianum*, var. *Lejolisianum* and var. *aschersonianam*).