Julien Foucaud (2 July 1847, in Saint-Clément – 26 April 1904, in Rochefort) was a French botanist.
From 1867 to 1885, he was an assistant teacher and teacher in several schools in the department of Charente-Maritime. In February 1885, he was appointed director of the naval botanical garden in Rochefort.Bulletin de la Société botanique de France ..., Volume 51 by Société botanique de France obituary
In February 1878, he became a member of the Société Botanique de France. Taxa with the specific epithet of foucaudii are named in his honor.Flora de Aragon Foucaudii In collaboration with Georges Rouy, he described numerous plant species.IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Foucaud
Selected works Flore de l'ouest de la France; ou, Description des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans les départements de: Charente-Inférieure, Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, Loire-Inférieure, Morbihan, Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord, Ille-et-Vilaine (1886), with James Lloyd – Flora of western France, description of plants native to Charente-Inférieure, Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, Loire-Inférieure, Morbihan, Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord and Ille-et-Vilaine.Archive.org Flore de l'ouest de la France Flore de France; ou, Description des plantes qui croissent spontanément en France, en Corse et en Alsace-Lorraine (1893–1913), with Georges Rouy, Edmond Gustave Camus and Jean-Nicolas Boulay – Flora of France, descriptions of plants native to France, Corsica and Alsace-Lorraine.Biodiversity Heritage Library Flore de France Trois semaines d'herborisations en Corse (1898), with Eugène Simon – Three weeks of herborization on Corsica.Google e-Book Trois semaines d'herborisations en Corse
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