Casimir Roumeguère

Jean-Marie Saturnin Casimir Roumeguère (* 15. August 1828 in Toulouse ; † 29. February 1892 ) was a French entrepreneur and amateur - botanists and - mycologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Roum. "

Life

His father was the head of the Toulouse prefecture office and head of a private school. Casimir Roumeguère was temporarily the private secretary of the Prefect of Toulouse (Cambacèrès). He married the daughter of an Italian pasta manufacturer, Cécile Buschetto, and was then a manufacturer himself. In addition, he dealt with mushrooms. He received lessons in botany from Professor at the University of Toulouse Alfred Moquin-Tandon .

His main work is Cryptogamie illustrée (1870, 1872), in which around 1700 images of cryptogams are partly with microscopic details (volume 1 is dedicated to lichen, volume 2 to mushrooms), and the monograph on mushrooms in the Département de Tarn-et-Garonne from 1879. From 1879 he was editor of the Revue mycologique , which was continued by René Ferry after his death until 1907. His son was the well-known lichenologist Jean-Marie Saturnin Casimir Romeguère . In addition to botany, he also dealt with malacology , archeology and geology .

The mushroom genera Roumegueriella , Romegueria and Romeguerites , as well as the mushroom Camarosporium roumeguerri are named after him.

Fonts

Voyage géologique à Saint-Ferréol et à Lampy, Montauban 1852
La Botanique, la conchyliologie et la géologie dans le midi de la France, 1835–1858, Toulouse 1859
Des lichens et en particulier des lichens des environs de Toulouse pouvant être utilisés dans l'économie domestique, la médecine et les arts industriels, Toulouse 1860
Bryologie du département de l'aude, Carcassonne 1870
Cryptogamie illustrée, ou, Histoire des familles naturelles des plantes acotylédones d'Europe / coordonnée suivant les dernières classifications et complétée par les recherches scientifiques les plus récentes. 2 volumes, Paris: Ballière, 1870, 1872
Glossaire mycologique: étymologie et concordance des noms vulgaires ou patois avec les noms français ou latins des principaux champignons alimentaires et vénéneux du midi de la France, Perpignan 1875
Nouveaux documents sur l'histoire des plantes cryptogames et phanérogames des Pyrénées, Paris: Ballière 1876
Statistique botanique du département de la Haute-Garonne, Paris 1876
Flore mycologique du département de Tarn-et-Garonne, Montauban 1879
Fungi algerienses trabutiani, Paris 1881

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SURNAME	Roumeguère, Casimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH	February 29, 1892
Place of death	Toulouse