Article Nº 2058 Scientist or naturalist Vol. II · p. 514
Léveillé (Hector)
Original title: Léveillê (Hector)
French botanist (1863–1918) who published three studies on Madeiran plants in Le Monde des Plantes, based on material supplied by one of the Elucidário's authors, although he never visited the island.
A distinguished French botanist, born on 13 March 1863, who died at Le Mans on 25 November 1918. He wrote the following works on the Madeiran flora: Les Onotheracées de Madère (Le Monde des Plantes, October 1896); A propos de deux plantes de Madere (ibid., October 1897); and Les Renonculacées, Geraniacées et Haloragées de Madere (ibid., February 1898).
He never visited Madeira; the materials he needed for his studies of the island’s flora were supplied to him by one of the authors of this Elucidário.
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- Hector Léveillé 1863–1918
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