Jean Baptiste Barla (1817 - 1896)
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Biography
Sources
Selected publications
Biography
Barla worked as a museum director in Nice. His works are all on the fungi of that area. Mind you, if I lived in Nice, maybe I would never leave the area, either.
Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Jean Baptiste BarlaDescription et figure du Xanthium spinosum: Lampourde épineuse specifique contre l'hydrophobie (Description and picture of Xanthium spinosum, a spiny composite that is a remedy for hydrophobia)Not likely!
Jean Baptiste Barla (1858) Aperçu mycologique et catalogue des champignons observés dans les environs de Nice (Mycological sketches and catalogue of the mushrooms observed in the area around Nice)
Jean Baptiste Barla (1859) Les champignons de la province de Nice et principalement les espèces comestibles, suspectes ou vénéneuses (The mushrooms of the province of Nice, especially the edible, suspect, and poisonous ones)
Jean Baptiste Barla (1889 - 1892) Flore mycologique illustrée. Les champignons des Alpes maritimes avec l'indication de leur propriétés utiles ou nuisibles (An Illustrated Mycological Flora: the mushrooms of the coastal Alps, with instructions as to their useful or harmful properties)
Jean Baptiste Barla (1996) Flore illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes: iconographie des orchidées (Illustrated flora of Nice and the coastal alps: Orchids)Obviously, this is a reprint
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