Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle's L'Heritier Reliquiae: A volume of miscellaneous prints kept in Geneva

Abstract Lack, H.W., K. Böhme & M.W. Callmander (2021). Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle's L'Heritier Reliquiae: A volume of miscellaneous prints in Geneva. Candollea 76: 145–165. In English, English abstract. A bound volume of miscellaneous prints previously owned by Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle and today kept in the library of the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques in Geneva is analysed. It consists of six very rare leaflets published by Charles-Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle and of several finished and unfinished engravings almost exclusively based on drawings by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. A considerable proportion of these unfinished engravings can be correlated with finished engravings kept in a volume of prints in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which is all that was published of the last two fascicles of L'Héritier's incomplete Stirpes novae. Notes on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the genera Buchozia L'Hér. (Rubiaceae), Hymenopappus L'Hér. (Asteraceae), Louichea L'Hér. (Caryophyllaceae), Michauxia L'Hér. (Campanulaceae) and Virgilia L'Hér. (Asteraceae) are included and their respective type species clarified. Lectotypes are designated for four names and the new combination Buchozia japonica (Thunb.) Callm. is provided. Furthermore, the complex historical background of the leaflets and the miscellaneous engravings is explained and set into the context of plant taxonomy in Paris during the two final decades of the eighteenth century. Received: January 31, 2021; Accepted: March 22, 2021; First published online: May 20, 2021