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### Author
Sauvages, François Boissier de la Croix de (1706-1767), French naturalist and physician; Dr. med. Montpellier 1726; professor of medicine (1734), later of botany (1740) at the University of Montpellier; royal professor of botany ib. 1755; staunch supporter of Linnaeus and the Linnaean ideas in France.
**Abbreviated name**: *Sauvages* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sauvages*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material at [[Collection LINN|LINN]] and [[Collection MPU|MPU]].
#### Name
Often cited as Sauvages de la Croix, F.B. de la or as Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix, François. – Not to be confused with his brother Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix (1710-1795), French clergyman, also active as botanist, see e.g. L.A. d'Hombres-Firmas, Notice biographique sur l'abbé de Sauvages, Alais, 1820, 8 p.-See e.g. Stafleu (1964).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 216 (b. 12 Mai, d. 19 Feb 1767); BM 8: 1142; Bossert p. 350; Herder p. 175; Plesch p. 397; Quenstedt p. 377.; SO 635c, 2480 corr.; Sotheby p. 673.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Cat. gén. livr. Bibl. natl. 15: 143-155. 1924; Index sem. Hortus monspeliensis 1982, cover (portr.) and p. \[i\] (dedic).
- Berg, F., Lychnos 1956: 31-54 (comp. Linnaeus-Sauvages, nosolog. systems).
- Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 131. 1971.
- Boisseau, F.G., Dict. sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 7: 102-105. 1825.
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.12. 1980.
- Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souvenirs 213. 1862.
- Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 446. 1880.
- Flahault, C., Univ. Montpellier, Inst. Bot. 35-36. 1890.
- Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 80, 82, 95, 122. 1908, 1(3): 51. 1909, 1(4): 144, 182, 183. 1910, 1(5): 51, 136, 273. 1911, 1(6): 141. 1912, 1(7): 99. 1917.
- Hoefer, Nouv. biogr. gén. 43: 376-377. 1864.
- Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 43, 44, 113, 120, 123, 154, 155, 252. 1916.
- Hulth, J.M. & A.H. Uggla, Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 224. 1943.
- Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 19. 1922 (material in LINN).
- Lombard-Dumas, A., Bull. Soc. bot. France 47: 526. 1900.
- Martins, Ch., Le Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier 36, 37, 41, 43, 61, 76. 1854.
- Michaud, J.Fr., Biogr. univ. 38: 85-87. 1969 (reprint; orig. 1854 ff.).
- Mignon, M., Bull. Soc. franç. Hist. Méd. 28: 5-26. 1934 (on "Esprits animaux).
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 758. 1863 (bibl.).
- Stafleu, F.A., *in* G.H.M. Lawrence, ed., Adanson 2: 601. 1964; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 185, 267-269, 271, 272, 273. 1971.
- Stieber, F. et al., Huntia 4(1): 86. 1981 (arch. mat. HU).
#### Eponymy
*Sauvagea* Adanson (1763, *orth. var.* of *Sauvagesia* Linnaeus); *Sauvagesa* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.* of *Sauvagesia* Linnaeus); *Sauvagesia* Linnaeus (1753).
### Publications
##### n.10.368. Methodus foliorum
**Title**
*Methodus foliorum*, seu plantae florae monspeliensis, juxta foliorum ordinem, ad juvandam specierum cognitionem, digestae... Methode pour connaître les plantes par les feüilles... à la Haye \['s Gravenhage\] 1751. Oct. (in fours).
**Abbreviated title**: *Meth. fol.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1751, p. \[i\]-xliv, \[1\]-343, \["143"\], *1 pl*, \[1\]-3. *Copies*: MO, NY(2), U, USDA; IDC 6195. – See e.g. Stafleu (1971) for the relation with Linnaean methodology. Preceded by *Projet d'une méthode sur les feuilles des plantes*, Montpellier 1743 (n.v.). – PR (950) cites this under P.A. Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages.