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Charles Isidore Douin

Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.

Biography He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces (1892). He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir (1906). The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor in 1928.

References Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.

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  • 1944 deaths
  • 19th-century French botanists
  • 20th-century French botanists
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  • French bryologists
  • People from Eure-et-Loir