> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1061](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190532) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/26009-1) LSID 26009-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2464225) QID Q2464225 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.