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### Author
Pailleux, \[Nicolas\] Auguste (1812-1898), French botanist; owner and director of an embroidery firm at Saint Pierre-lez-Calars ca. 1840-1871; in retirement at Crosnes nr. Villeneuve-Saint-Georges dedicating himself to horticulture developing new cultivars of vegetables; introduced the chinese artichoke ("Crosne").
**Abbreviated name**: *Pailleux* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pailleux*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
BL 1: 35, 311; BM 4: 1499; Bossert p. 298; Bret. p. 1060; CSP 17: 676; Kew 4: 211; MW p. 375; Plesch p. 353; Rehder 5: 645; Tucker 1: 534-535.
#### Biofile
- Bourguignon, L., Rev. hort. 1898: 176 f., reprinted in Potager curieux ed. 3, 1899, p. vi-ix (b. 10 Sep 1812).
- Merrill, E.D., Contr. US. natl. Herb. 30(1): 232. 1947.
### Publications
##### n.7189. Le Soya
**Title**
*Le Soya* sa composition chimique ses variétés, sa culture et ses usages.... Paris (Librairie agricole de la Maison rustique) 1881. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Soya*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1881, p. \[1\]-127. *Copy*: FI. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 3. 7: 414-471. Sep 1880, 538-596 early 1881.
##### n.7190. Le potager d'un curieux
**Title**
*Le potager d'un curieux* histoire, culture et usages de 100 plantes comestibles peu connues ou inconnues... Paris (Librairie agricole de la maison rustique...) 1885. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Potag. cur.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*: Désiré George Jean Marie Bois (1856-1946).
*Ed. 1*: 1884, published in Bull. Soc. nat. Accclimation ser. 4. 1: 44-75. Jan, 131-158. Feb, 259-288. Mar, 363-391. Apr, 465-492. Jun, 570-598. Jul, 653-678. Aug, 728-747. Sep, 824-847. Oct, 896-913. Nov, 945-962. Dec 1884, (journal, with orig. covers, at USDA). – Based upon Pailleux's own horticultural experiments at Crosnes.
*Reprint*: 1885 (t.p.; BSbF 13 Nov 1885), p. \[1\]-294, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: FI, G.
*Ed. 2*: 1892 (BSbF 27 Mai 1892; Nat. Nov. Jul(1) 1892), p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-589. *Copy*: MO. – "*Le potager d'un curieux*... 200 plantes... deuxième édition entièrement refaite... Paris (id.) 1892. Oct.
*Ed. 3*: 1899 (Nat. Nov. Mar(2) 1899), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-678. *Copy*: USDA. – "*Le potager d'un curieux*... 250 plantes... troisième édition entièrement refaite..." Paris (id.) 1899. Oct. – Rev. P. Hariot, Bull. Soc. bot. France 46: 61-63. 1899.
*Ed*. \[4\]: 1927-1937. The following work may be considered "comme la quatrième édition...": D. Bois (Désiré G. J.M. Bois, 1856-1946, see TL-2/1: 254), *Les plantes alimentaires chez tous les peuples* et à travers les ages. Histoire, utilisation, culture, phanérogames, léguminières... Paris (Paul Chevalier...) 1927-1937, 4 vols. (in series Encyclopédie biologique). *Copy*: USDA.
*1*: 1927 (printing finished 8 Mai 1927), p. \[1\]-593, \[1, colo.\].
*2*: 1928 (id. 25 Nov 1928), p. \[1\]-637, \[638, err.\], \[1, colo.\].
*3*: 1934 (id. 24 Dec 1934), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-289, \[1, colo.\].
*4*: 1937 (id. 15 Apr 1937), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-600, \[1, err.\], \[1, colo.\].