L'Herbier Burnat (G-BU)

Abstract Jeanmonod, D. & A. Charpin (2017). The Burnat Herbarium (G-BU). Candollea 72 : 143–153. In French, English and French abstracts. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15553/c2017v721a10 Emile Burnat (1828–1920) bequeathed his herbarium to the CJBG in 1911. It has been kept separate from the general collection G under the acronym G-BU. It consists of 1,572 boxes containing 219,843 specimens. It is divided into three parts : the European herbarium (1,169 boxes), the Maritime Alps herbarium (379 boxes) and the Thuret herbarium (24 boxes), also from the Maritime Alps. Burnat's personal collections and the ones of his collaborators reach 42,727 specimens and are mainly from the Maritime Alps, Switzerland and Corsica. The European herbarium is organized according to the Nyman Conspectus. The most original part is the Corsican collection (about 8,000 specimens), which served as a base for Briquet and Litardiere's Prodrome de la Flore Corse. The herbarium of the Maritime Alps, including some 55,000 specimens, is org...