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GASCOGNE (GASCONY) 
The region and former province of Gascogne includes the departments of Gers, Hautes- 
Pyrénées, Landes, and parts of some others. 
Levrat, Etienne. La médecine populaire en Gascogne. Revue Pyr. 23: 
260-294. 1911. 
Includes annotated list of medicinal plants (p. 287-292), in part with 
scientific names and uses. 
GERS 
See also Gascogne; Landes (Ducomet, La botanique populaire dans |’Albret). 
General 
Dupuy, Dominique, abbé. Florule du département du Gers et des contrées 
voisines . . .3 p.l., ix, 240 ie. 340 p. (left-hand pages 2-284 blank). 11.5 
em. Auch, 1847. (Gray Herbarium library.) 
Brief account cf botanical explorations; unannotated list of vascular plants 
and Characeae, with intermixed keys and diagnostic phrases, without locali- 
ties—See also Duffort, Louis. Contribution a la fiore du département du 
Gers. [Ij-il. Bul. Vulgarisat. Sci. Nat. Gers 1 (1): 14-20. 1901; 1 (8) 
[by error tome 2]: 3-16. 1902 (reprinted 1922). ([{1], list of noteworthy 
vascular plants and Characeae coilected by author, with localities; II, an- 
notated list of local species of Rosa, with key.)—Also his Une visite botani- 
que a Condom, juin 1901. le. 1 (1): 21-22. 1901. (List of noteworthy 
plants, including some new to Gers.)—-Also Lemée, Albert. Contribution a 
étude de la flore du département du Gers. le. no. 6 (i.e., v. 1, no. 6): 
7-18. 1923. (List with localities.) 
Lucante, Angel, abbé. Etude sur la flore du département du Gers. Revue 
Bot. Bul. Mens. Soc. France. Bot. 1: 5-8, 37-41, 71-74, 152-155, 189-192, 
227-230, 257-260. 1882-83. 
Botanical explorations, etc.; unannotated list of 1184 species and varieties 
of vascular plants known in 1868, based on Dupuy; discussion of method of 
marking exchange lists of plants. Section III, intended to record the species 
added since 1868, apparently was never published. 
Local 
Dader, J.. and Rey, P. Les noms gascons des plantes et des formations 
végétales du Bas-Comminges. (Notes sur la flore gasconne IV.) In Docu- 
ments pour les cartes des productions végétales. Série France-atlantique, 
tome Aquitaine. Aquitaine centrale, no. 1. Astarac oriental et Bas-Com- 
minges. art. IV.- 1 p.l.,13p. 1945. 
Includes lists of scientific names of woody plants, herbs, fruit trees, and 
cultivated plants with Gascon vernacular names, from the Comminges region 
in the valley of the Save River. 
Dupuy, Dominique, abbé. Mémoires d’un botaniste accompagnés de la 
floruie des stations des chemins de fer du Midi dans le Gers. 358 p. 30 
fig. 18.5 cm. Paris, 1868. 
The “Florule” (p. 117-end) contains a briefly annotated flora in form of 
key, classified lists of useful and harmfui plants, list of rarer species of 
the principal railway stations, glossary; also (p. 283-312) a set of “couplets 
a chanter au retour des herborisations,” intended to fix in the minds of 
students the localities at which the rare plants of the region are found. 
Lassime, Jeanne. Contribution a l’étude de la végétation du Haut- 
Armagnac. Le pays lectourois. 102 p. (incl. map). 25 em. Toulouse, 
1932. (On title page: Travail du Laboratoire de botanique et de crypto- 
gamie de la Faculté de médecine et de pharmacie de Toulouse.) 
Mainly ecological; includes (p. 71-87) systematic list of medicinal plants 
of pharmaceutical significance, annotated only as to habitat and abundance. 
R., R. de. Notes sur les noms et usages populaires d’un certain nombre de 
plantes intéressant plus particuliérement la région du Condomois. Bul. 
Vulgar. Sci. Nat. Gers 3 (i.e. 4): 5-17. 1906. 
Alphabetical list of 64 Gascon vernacular names, with botanical equiva- 
lents and uses. 
