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### Author
Saint-Amans, Jean Florimond Boudon de (1748-1831), French botanist and soldier; from 1768-1773 with a French expeditionary force in the French Antilles; from 1773 private scientist at Agen, sometime professor of natural history at the École centrale of Lot-et-Garonne; from 1800-1831 president of the conseil-général of the département Lot-et-Garonne, also devoting himself to archeology and numismatics.
**Abbreviated name**: *Saint-Amans* \[standard form in IPNI: *St.-Amans*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 6(1): 809; Barnhart 3: 200 (b. 24 Jun 1748, d. 28 Oct 1831); BM 4: 1782; Bossert p. 345; Colmeiro 1: cxcvii; CSP 5: 364; Dawson p. 728-729; Dryander 3: 142; GF p. 298; GR, cat. p. 71; Hawksworth p. 185, 197; Herder p. 175; Hortus 3: 1204; Kelly p. 205; Kew 4: 564; PR 1164, 7978-7980, ed. 1: 2167, 8925-8929; Rehder 1: 406, 407, 3: 212; SO 2621, 2657; TL-1/1135; TL-2/795; see L.A. Chaubard; Tucker 1: 618; Zander ed. 10, p. 720, ed. 11, p. 822.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux 6(33): (24). 20 Oct 1833 (d.); Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon 1847-1849: xiv. 1850 (d. 23 Oct 1845); La France littéraire 8: 316-319. \[date not noted\] (bibl.).
- Clos, D., Bull. Soc. bot. France 40: 243-250. 1893 (on Chaubard and the *Fl. agen.*).
- Debeaux, D., Rev. de Bot. 13: 11-13. 1895 (in his Révision de la Flore Agenaise); Révis. fl. agen. 11-13. 1898.Lapeyrouse, P., Hist. abr. pl. Pyren. xxx. 1813.
- Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 94. 1906.
- Percheron, A., Bibl. entom. 2: 25. 1837.
#### Eponymy
*Amansia* J.V.F. Lamouroux(1809) and *Amansites* (A.T. Brongniart) A.T. Brongniart (1849) may be named for this author.
#### Note
P.A. Saccardo (Bull. Soc. bot. ital. 1906: 25-27. 1906) points out that the term "phanerogams" stems from Saint-Amans, J. Sci. util., Bertholon, 1791 (17/18): 283, 285, 291.
### Publications
##### n.10.016. Fragmens d'un voyage
**Title**
*Fragmens d'un voyage* sentimental & pittoresque *dans les Pyrénées*, ou lettre écrite de ces montagnes... à Metz (chez Devilly,...) 1789. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fragm. voy. Pyrén.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1789, p. \[i\*, iii\*, v\*\], \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-259. *Copy*: G. – Botany ("Le *bouquet des Pyrénées*, ou catalogue des plantes observées dans ces montagnes, pendant les mois de juillet et août de l'année 1788") on p. 189-259.
##### n.10.017. Flore agenaise
**Title**
*Flore agenaise* ou description méthodique des plantes observées dans le Département de Lot-et-Garonne et dans quelques parties des départemens voisins... Agen (Prosper Noubel,...) 1821. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. agen.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 20-28 Apr 1821 (BF 28 Apr 1821; Donk 1957; Petersen 1975), p. \[1\]-61, \[i\], \[1\]-632. *Copies*: BR, FH, G, HH, MICH, MO, NY, USDA; IDC 5082; for *plates* see *Bouquet* (1821) below.
*Cryptogams*: see also L. de Brondeau, *Rec. pl. crypt. agen.* 1828-1830; TL-2/795; *Révision*": see J.O. Debeaux, *Rév. pl. phan. agen.* 1895, TL-2/1331.
*Notes*: (*1*) See Saccardo, P.A., in Bull. Soc. bot. ital. 1906: 225-227 on Saint-Amans' statement on the origin of the word Phanerogamae; Saccardo states that the term stems from Saint-Amans.
- (2) For L.A. Chaubard's part in writing the *Fl. agen.* see Clos (1893).
*Ref*.: Clos, D., Bull. Soc. bot. France 40: 243-250. 1893.
- Donk, M.A., Taxon 6: 253. 1957.
- Petersen, R.H., Mycotaxon 1: 156. 1975.
##### n.10.018. Le bouquet du département de Lot-et-Garonne
**Title**
*Le bouquet du département de Lot-et-Garonne*, ou fascicule de quelques plantes de ce département, nouvelles, rares, point ou mal figurées dans les ouvrages de botanique, et décrites dans la Flore agenaise... Agen (Prosper Noubel,...) 1821.
**Abbreviated title**: *Bouquet Lot-et-Garonne*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1821, p. \[i, iii\], *pl. 1-12* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: BR, FH, G, HH, MICH, MO, NY, USDA. – Plates accompanying the *Fl. agen.* (1821); usually bound with the publication.