Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre


Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre was a French botanist. The plant genera Diserneston of the family Apiaceae and Ernestella and Saintpierrea of the family Rosaceae were named in his honor.
He was one of fifteen founding members of Société botanique de France, an institution that was established on 24 May 1854.

Publications

Atlas de la Flore des Environs de Paris, with Ernest Cosson, 1845Guide du botaniste ou Conseil pratique sur l'étude de la botanique, edited by Victor Masson, 1852Nouveau Dictionnaire de botanique comprenant la description des familles naturelles, les propriétés médicales et les usages économiques des plants, la morphologie et la biologie des végétaux, 1870.