Species Bulliarda elatinoides

For Jean Baptiste François Bulliard (1752–1793), French physician, botanist and naturalist. He studied medicine in Langres, worked in hospices in Clairvaux and Paris, where he set up his own practice. He began his botanical studies at the Abbey of Clairvaux and was a pupil of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He authored Flora parisiensis, Herbier de la France (Guide to the Herbs of France) in 13 volumes, Elémentaire Dictionnaire de botanique (which consolidated botanical terminology and Linnaeus’s system), Histoire des plantes vénéneuses Suspectes et de la France (which was reported to the police as a dangerous book – being a guide to poisoning relatives and friends – and then removed from bookstores and confiscated) and Histoire des Champignons de la France (Natural History of the Mushrooms of France).