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### Author
Xuarez, Gaspar (1731-1804), Argentine botanist and clergyman; studied at the Colegio Monserrat, Cordoba; entered the Society of Jesus 1748; banned from Argentina by Carlos III 1767; in Faenza, Italy 1767-1773; after the discontinuation of the Jesuit order in Rome 1773-1804, head of the Giardino vaticano-indico.
**Abbreviated name**: *Xuarez* \[standard form in IPNI: *Xuarez*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 631; BM 2: 677, 5: 2370; Hirsch p. 144; PR 3332, ed. 1: 3626; Saccardo 1: 174; TL-1/1123; TL-2/9769; Tucker 1: 756.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 209: 122. 1963, 261: 1095. 1965; Cat. gen. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 228: 574-575. 1979.
- Parodi, L.R., Darwiniana 13: 195-208. 1964 (biogr. sketch; discussion bot. publ., sources).
#### Composite works
For the Xuarez edition (1797) of H. Ruiz & J.A. Pavon, *Fl. peruv. prodr.*, see TL-2/9769.
#### Eponymy
*Xuarezia* Ruiz et Pavon (1794).
### Publications
##### n.18.399. Osservazioni fitologiche
**Title**
*Osservazioni fitologiche* sopra alcune plante esotiche introdotte in Roma fatta nell' anno 1788. Dagli Abati Filippo Luigi Gilii, e Gaspare Xuarez... Roma (nella stamperia di Arcangelo Casaletti...) 1789.
**Abbreviated title**: *Osserv. fitol.*
**Notes**
*Authorship*: Co-author Filippo Luigi Gilii (1756-1821). Parodi (1964) states that X. was the actual author.
*Fasc*. \[*1*\] *for 1788*: Jul-Oct 1789, p. \[1\]-64, *9 pl*. (uncol. copp.).
*Fasc*. \[*2*\], *for 1789*: 23-31 Dec 1790 (p. vi: 23 Dec 1790), p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-viii, 1-70, *pl. 1-10 *(id.).
*Fasc*. \[*3*\], *for 1790*: Oct-Dec 1792 (p. iii: 1 Oct 1792), p. \[i-iv\], 1-99, *pl. 1-10* \[*11-18*\] (id.).
*Copy*: G. – Plates by P. Caesar Maioli, (1 by Aloys Maioli). The copy at G has 29 pl.; NI mentions 30 pl.