R. Kiesling et al. - Typiﬁcation of Opuntia australis (Cactaceae)

tyPIfIcatIon of oPuntIa auStralIS (cactaceae) wIth an

orIgInal Plate from 1882 and hIStory of the Plant’S

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tIPIfIcacIón de oPuntIa auStralIS (cactaceae) con una lámIna

orIgInal de 1882 e hIStorIa del hallazgo de la Planta

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Roberto Kiesling *, Jean-René Catrix , Florence Tessier and Daniel Schweich

Summary

The neotypiﬁcation of Opuntia australis F.A.C.Weber, basionym of Pterocactus

australis (F.A.C.Weber) Backeb., is made here thanks to the discovery of Weber’s

personal notes about it, and of two notebooks containing respectively a drawing

and a short description of that plant, both made at the time of its ﬁrst collection in

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. Member of the Carrera del

Investigador Científico, IADIZA –

CONICET, Mendoza.

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. Cactophile, Éragny sur Oise,

France.

. Librarian at the botany library,

1882. Outlined as well is the poorly documented scientiﬁc expedition that made this

ﬁrst discovery and the cultivation of an early plant by F.E. Schlumberger on Weber’s

behalf. A Weber’s note conﬁrms he knew the mentioned illustration. A herbarium

specimen from the same gathering has been found, but it cannot be considered

original material since there is no evidence that it was seen by Weber. However, this

specimen is here designated as epitype.

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Direction des Bibliothèques et de la

Documentation, Muséum National

d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

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. Retired from CNRS, Jonage,

France

Key wordS

*rkiesling@mendoza.conicet.gob.ar

Cactaceae, Opuntioideae, Pterocactus australis, scientiﬁc expeditions, Typiﬁcation.

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KIESLING, R., J. R. CATRIX, F. TESSIER

D. SCHWEICH. 2021. Typification

of Opuntia australis (Cactaceae)

with an original plate from 1882

and history of the plant’s finding.

Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 56: 45-54.

Se realiza la neotipiﬁcación de Opuntia australis F.A.C.Weber (basónimo de

Pterocactus australis (F.A.C.Weber) Backeb.), gracias al hallazgo de manuscritos

sobre esta especie de su autor y de una libreta con un dibujo a color del

taxón, efectuado al tiempo de su primera colección. También se menciona una

segunda libreta, complementaria, con una breve descripción de la planta y la

expedición cientíﬁca -poco documentada- que realizó el hallazgo en 1882, y a F.

E. Schlumberger, quien la cultivó, colaborando con el autor. Una nota de Weber

conﬁrma que conoció la ilustración mencionada. Además, se encontró un ejemplar

de herbario de la misma colección, que si bien no puede ser considerado material

original ya que no consta que haya sido visto por el autor, es designado como

epitipo.

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DOI: https://doi.org/

0.31055/1851.2372.v56.n1.30584

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PalabraS clave

Cactaceae, expedicionescientíﬁcas, Opuntioideae, Pterocactusaustralis,Tipiﬁcación.

IntroductIon

Opuntia australis was described by the French military medical doctor and

amateur botanist Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830-1903), who devoted

his botanical research efforts basically to the Cactaceae family. He collaborated

actively with the “Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Phanérogamie”,

Paris, and contributed to the famous Dictionnaire d’Horticulture by Désiré Bois,

published 1893-99.

In charge of the cactus family in Bois’s Dictionnaire, Weber published the

original description of Opuntia australis F.A.C.Weber in 1898. Although the

description is short, it accurately describes the plant with diagnostic characters,

Recibido: 19 Oct 2020

Aceptado: 26 Feb 2021

Publicado en línea: 8 Mar 2021

Publicado impreso: 31 Mar 2021

Editor: Roberto Manuel Salas

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and the original locality is given as “Patagonie, du 40 au 50 degré de latitude

Sud, dans la Région magellanique, jusqu’au Sud du Rio Santa Cruz, où l’hiver

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est très rigoureux”. [“Patagonia, from 40 to 50 degree of South latitude, in

the Magellanic Region, down South of Santa Cruz River, where winter is very

severe”]. Due to the concise style of the Bois’s publication, neither type material

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nor name of the plant collector was mentioned. Weber’s 1870 and stopped in 1893 when Schlumberger died

personal notes and letters received from Schlumberger (Catrix et al., 2020).

about this plant have recently been found; among these

In a letter dated August 28, 1886, Schlumberger

documents, there is a reference to a colour drawing tells Weber: “… j’ai greffé la tête (la moitié) de

made at the time of the ﬁrst discovery, which will be votre opuntia australis;” [I have grafted the head

designated here as neotype. An herbarium specimen, (one half) of your opuntia australis;]. Later, in 1887

which was collected at the same time as the drawing (August?): «… Votre fameux Opuntia Australis a

was done and living plants were collected, was also émis sur le petit morceau que vous avez greffé une

found, but there is no evidence that it was seen by belle et vigoureuse pousse qui ne ressemble pas au

Weber prior to the publication of O. australis. The petit chétif individu greffé. Elle a en ce moment 3 c.

various documents found are described and commented l sur 2c diam et parait devoir faire une belle plante.

below.

J’avais greffé la tête l’année dernière, mais quoique

bien reprise elle pousse mollement.» [… Your

famous Opuntia Australis that you have grafted,

has produced a nice and vigorous offset that is not

as puny-looking as the graft. It is 3 cm long and 2

materIalS and methodS

A research into Weber’s documents at the main cm in diameter and it will probably produce a nice

library of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle plant. Last year, I grafted the head, and although it

in Paris led to the discovery of two documents at the has recovered well, it grows slowly]. The text that

botany library of the same institution, a sketchbook, and we have underlined in Schlumberger’s citation and

a notebook, which had been used by Weber. Additional translation suggests that the plant had ﬁrst been

research into their origins uncovered interesting received and grafted by Weber and then given to

historical facts about the expedition they had come Schlumberger. However, there is no indication of

from, and about other contemporary French expeditions when and where Weber got the plant from.

in the same area, which can help to understand the

Three personal notes by Weber deal with O.

origin of Patagonian plants described at the time. A australis:

research into the herbarium of the same institution (P) A) Undated:

also discovered a specimen of this species collected by “Op. australis. La ﬂeur jaune paille sort tout à fait de

the same expedition.

l’extrémité de l’article dans lequel elle est comme

immergée” [the straw-yellow ﬂower emerges from

the absolute tip of the article in which it seems to

be immersed]

reSultS

B) Beginning of undated text (probably from 1886-

87); then, an addition dated 1889:

Weber’s notes

It is known that Weber had an active “Opuntia australis; greffé sur Op. subulata chez

correspondence with many botanists and amateurs

who were interested in cacti at that time (Catrix et

al., 2019 and 2020). Some of these documents are

held at the main library and the botany library of

the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris

M. Schlumb. article cucumériforme forme de

cornichon 8 cm long. 2½ largeur et épaisseur

vert foncé avec teintes violacées — consistance

molle, mamelonné — mamelons disposés en séries

spirales à base large arrondie, portant à leur

sommet ou plutôt sur leur page supérieure une

aréole peu duveteuse blanchâtre, avec 12 ou 15

aiguillons blancs transparents rayonnants; de plus

au sommet de l’aréole qques petits aiguillons très

ﬁns et courts, sétiformes, 2 aiguillons centraux,

foliacés, recourbés, ascendants, cinérés ayant une

certaine analogie avec ceux de l’Ech. capricornis.

(MNHN hereafter), and have been studied by one of

us, J.-R. Catrix, who found Weber’s personal notes

and letters from Schlumberger, in an archive ﬁle

referenced as “Per K 160”, kept at the main library

of MNHN.

Frédéric Émile Schlumberger (1823-1893) was

a rich and gifted private plant grower who lived

near Rouen in France. He grew and received plants 1889 — L’article greffé devient très prolifère à la

on Weber’s behalf, and prepared herbarium sheets

exclusively for Weber. Their cooperation started in

longue; les jeunes articles portent au sommet des

folioles promptement caduques, longues de 1 mm,

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subulées, d’unvert±rubescent”[Opuntiaaustralis;

The sketchbook is supplemented by a notebook

grafted on Op. subulata in Mr. Schlumberger’s with a similar title on the cover: “Mission du Santa

greenhouse. Cucumiform article, in the shape Cruz de Patagonie – Aviso le Volage commandé

t

eau

of a gherkin 8 cm long, 2½ wide and thick, dark par Mr. Ingouf Lieut de V - Rapport du Docteur

green with purplish shade — soft consistency, Couteaud sur la ﬂore de Santa Cruz” [Mission of

tuberculated — tubercles in spiral series with a Santa Cruz of Patagonia – Escort boat Le Volage

wide round base, with a whitish slightly ﬂuffy commanded by Mr. Ingouf, ﬁrst ofﬁcer – Doctor

areole at their tip or at their top part, with 12 or Couteaud’s report about Santa Cruz ﬂora] which

15 white translucent radiating spines; at the top of provides descriptions for all the plants drawn in

the areole, moreover, there are a few very small the sketchbook, classed by families. A foreword

and very thin spines, setiform, 2 central spines, from the author explains: “Les trois mois que le

foliaceous, bent, ascending, ash-colored, having Volage a passés à Santa Cruz ont été mis à proﬁt

some analogy with those of Ech. capricornis.

pour recueillir les plantes et les faire dessiner. La

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889 — The grafted article becomes very proliferous saison était on ne peut plus favorable puisque le

in the long term; the top of young articles bears printemps allait commencer. Malheureusement

quickly deciduous leaﬂets, 1 mm long, subulate, notre séjour ne s’est pas prolongé sufﬁsamment

green ± rubescent.]

C) Undated (Fig. 1):

pour nous permettre de faire dessiner toutes les

plantes. Néanmoins on peut voir par les descriptions

“

Mission de Santa Cruz de Patagonie. L’aviso le sommaires ci-jointes, destinées à compléter les

Volage commandé par M Ingous lieutenant de

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vaisseau. Croquis des plantes collectionnées par

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le docteur Couteaud, exécutés par le 2 M M

Heimsch par ordre du commandant. Planche

5 Cereus patagonicus en ﬂeur, colorié. Pl. 46

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Op. australis en ﬂ., color.” [Mission of Santa

Cruz of Patagonia. The escort boat Le Volage,

commanded by ﬁrst ofﬁcer Ingous. Sketches of

the plants collected by doctor Couteaud, and

nd

drawn by the 2 chief mechanic Heimsch by

the captain’s order. Plate 45 ﬂowering Cereus

patagonicus, colored. Plate 46 ﬂowering Op.

australis, colored.]

The sketchbook

Weber’s note C above (Fig. 1) refers to the

documents illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, found at

the botany library of MNHN under reference Per

K 42. The two drawings are parts of a sketchbook

(Heimsch, 1882) with 77 colored drawings of plants.

The text on the cover page indicates that they were

nd

drawn by the 2 chief mechanic Heimsch of the

ship “Le Volage” (Fig. 2), under the supervision

of the ship’s medical doctor, Dr Couteaud, who

collected the plants, and of the captain, M. Ingouf.

The drawings are all numbered and the scale

is sometimes mentioned by a meticulous hand,

probably Heimsch’s, while some plates also bear

names of plants, written with a pencil, often with

question marks, by another anonymous hand. No

date is provided in this sketchbook.

Fig. 1. Weber’s handwritten notes about the

sketchbook that shows the plate of Opuntia australis.

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Fig. 2. Front cover of the sketchbook with the

plates drawn by J.F. Heimsch. © Muséum National

d'Histoire Naturelle, June 2020.

Fig. 3. Neotype of Opuntia australis, Plate 46 of the

booklet. The tentative name “Opuntia Darwini ?”

is anonymous. J.F. Heimsch, © Muséum National

d’Histoire Naturelle, June 2020.

dessins, que la Flore de cette partie de la Patagonie

est sufﬁsamment variée. Beaucoup de plantes qui ne herbarium (P) in February 1883, as recorded in the

ﬁgurent pas dans les dessins, notamment les plantes entries of the herbarium’s logbook.

marines, ont été recueillies dans l’herbier dressé en

In the sketchbook, the Cactaceae are represented

collaboration avec M. Lebrun.” [“The three months by plates 45 and 46 only, with the tentative name

spent in Santa Cruz by the Volage were used to “Opuntia darwini?” for both. In the notebook,

collect plants and have them drawn. The season Dr. Couteaud’s description of plate 45 (Cereus

was extremely favorable, as spring was beginning. patagonicus) starts with the name “Cactus

Unfortunately, our stay wasn’t long enough to allow opuntia?”; the description of the plant of plate 46

us to have all plants drawn. Nevertheless, from (Opuntia australis) is transcribed and translated in

the short descriptions, meant to supplement the the appendix.

drawings, it can be seen that the ﬂora of this part of

Note C, which reproduces the text of the

Patagonia is rather varied. A lot of plants that do not sketchbook cover (Fig. 1), proves that Weber did

appear among the drawings, notably marine plants, see and study this booklet, even though he wrote

have been gathered in the herbarium processed in “Ingous” instead of “Ingouf”, surely confusing the

collaboration with Mr. Lebrun. ...]”

“f” with a long “s”. It is not known whether Weber

From the descriptions, the three months spent actually saw Dr. Couteaud’s notebook. Fig. 1 shows

in Santa Cruz were October to December 1882. that he gave the name Cereus patagonicus to the

The plants collected by Lebrun (96 specimens) and plant of plate 45. That species name was published

Couteaud (126 specimens) did arrive in the MNHN by C. L. Spegazzini (1858-1926) who attributed it

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to Weber (“Cereus patagonicus Weber (in litt.)”). This explains why Heimsch’s ﬁsh drawings, as well

Then, Spegazzini should be considered the author as some bird specimens collected by the Volage’s

who cited other plant material, but he had never crew, are mentioned in the publication of the

seen plate 45, which therefore cannot be the type Mission scientiﬁque du Cap-Horn.

for C. patagonicus. Weber also gave the name “O.

This is not the case for the botanical collections

australis” to the plant of plate 46 (Fig. 3) that was made by the Volage’s team: the botany volume of

erroneously named “Opuntia Darwini?” by an the Mission scientiﬁque du Cap-Horn does not even

anonymous person. It is clearly the currently named mention any plant collected by either Lebrun or

Pterocactus australis (F.A.C.Weber) Backeb.

Couteaud.

The scientiﬁc results of the Volage expedition

were never published; it is mentioned mainly in

The Volage and its crew

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The sketchbook and notebook originated from the general press, such as the March 16 , 1883

the 1882-1883 mission embarked on the escort-ship issue of the French newspaper “Le Soleil” (Fig. 4):

Le Volage, organized to observe an astronomical “M. Ingouff … accompagné… d’un naturaliste du

event, the transit of Venus in front of the solar disc Muséum, M. Le Brun… avait remonté le Santa-Cruz

in December 1882, which was useful to determine vers la cordillière… Cette expedition… a rapporté

the sun-Earth distance. Various expeditions were un nombre considerable de fossiles” (see full text

sent to the south hemisphere on this occasion by and translation in the appendix).

several countries. The French government sent

The drawings by J. F. Heimsch and the

three astronomical missions to different parts descriptions by Dr. Couteaud (1882) are a precious

of Patagonia, meant to embark on ships that testimony of the botanical collections made by the

were already in Montevideo, like the Volage. Volage expedition and must come as a supplement

The Volage’s scientiﬁc team comprised Edouard- to the contemporary publication of the Mission

Adolphe Lebrun, a collection technician from the scientiﬁque du Cap-Horn for the discovery of the

MNHN zoology chair, sent as a naturalist, along ﬂora of Patagonia.

with the astronomer and naval ofﬁcer Georges-

Although the other botanical collections made

Ernest Fleuriais (1840-1895) and his aides. He had by the Volage expedition have not yet been found

the help of Dr. Pierre Benjamin Couteaud (1855- at the P herbarium, F. Tessier was able to ﬁnd one

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940), the ship’s medical doctor, who collected herbarium sheet of Cactaceae that can be linked

not only plants but also geological specimens (now to it (P04594032, available in http://coldb.mnhn.

kept at MNHN). The second chief mechanic, Jules fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p04594032); the label

Frédéric Heimsch (1859-1920) had artistic talents clearly states that the material was received on

that were not limited to plants: his drawings of March 25, 1883 from Patagonia, Santa-Cruz, Dr.

ﬁshes are mentioned in the publication made by the Couteaud (written Couteau). It contains two pieces

Mission scientiﬁque du Cap-Horn (Milne-Edwards, of plant material, misidentiﬁed as the Peruvian

et al. 1891).

cactus species Echinocactus aurantiacus Vaupel.

Six scientists formed the Mission scientiﬁque Since the only cacti collected by Couteaud were

du Cap-Horn, aimed at studying the polar regions O. australis and C. patagonicus, this material must

on the ship La Romanche, captained by Louis- be pieces of one or both plants. The piece of dry

Ferdinand Martial; they published several volumes material on the left of the herbarium sheet is clearly

of their ﬁndings (Martial 1888), one of them on a ﬂower of O. australis, whereas the piece on the

botany, mainly cryptogamic plants, authored by right – a single ﬂower – can be from the Cereus

Paul Hariot, Emile Bescherelle, Adrien Franchet, patagonicus collected at the same time, but we

and Paul Petit (Hariot et al. 1889).

were not able to identify it with full certainty from

The Romanche and the Volage met in Montevideo the picture.

in August 1882 – where was also the French boat

Labourdonnais –, and probably met again later. In Typiﬁcation

fact, Lebrun left the Volage rather quickly, traveled

Considering that:

from Santa Cruz to Punta Arenas, and then joined 1) There is no type material mentioned in the

the Romanche in February 1883 (Perrier, 1905).

original description by Weber, and that he never

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Botany Library, Direction des Bibliothèques et de

la Documentation, Muséum National d’Histoire

Naturelle, Paris (MNHN), reference Per K

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2. Original manuscript, unpublished (Fig. 3).

EPITYPE: Couteaud specimen, left piece, collected

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by Couteaud (“Patagonie. S . Cruz. M. le Dr.

Couteau. Reçu le 25 mars 1883”; P 04594032!). Fig.

5. Available at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/

mnhn/p/p04594032, stored under the name

Echinocactus aurantiacus. Accessed 25 Feb 2021.

Distribution. It is distributed over a nearly

continuous strip of land along the Atlantic coast from

N of Río Negro province to Santa Cruz province,

and across the whole Patagonian plateau, mostly

near the rivers, lakes, or slightly humid soils. It has

recently been found in the Chilean territory (Saldivia

&

Rojas, 2008) at Chile Chico, Aysen Region,

Fig. 4. Excerpt of the newspaper “Le Soleil”, March ca. 46°36' S, 71°30' W. The extreme Argentinean

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6, 1883, under “Nouvelles diverses” indicating the localities recorded are, in the NW: Neuquén, Zapala

expedition of the escort boat “Volage” along the

Santa Cruz river.

district, Laguna Blanca, ca. 39° S, 70°20' W; in the

NE: Río Negro, San Antonio district: Sierra Grande;

ca. 41°40' S 65°22' W; in the SW: Santa Cruz,

mentioned the preserved herbarium material of O. Calafate district, La Leona ca. 50° S, 72° W; in the

australis in his notes, nor in any publication. SE: Santa Cuz, Río Santa Cruz, Corpen Aike district,

) Although we cannot rule out with certainty that Cte. L. Piedrabuena, ca. 50° S, 68° 45' W.

plate 46 was seen by Weber prior to the description Although some populations have strong and thick

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of O. australis and would therefore be “original erect central spines, most of them are thin, ﬂat, paper-

material” in the sense of Art. 9.4(a) (Turland et like, and this makes this Pterocactus be confused

al., 2018), and considering the fact that he used with the grasses among which it frequently grows

living plant material for the description, we prefer (Fig. 6).

to designate the plate as Neotype.

3) The herbarium specimen P04594032, left part,

can also be “original material”, but having no fInal remarKS

evidence that it was seen by Weber, we prefer to

designate plate 46 as Neotype.

The description was supplemented by a Weber’s

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) Since a type should preferably be a specimen, posthumous article written and published by Roland

we are designating the mentioned Couteaud’s Gosselin (1904). It is essentially based on Weber’s

specimen as Epitype, due to its being part of the notes and on the description in Bois’s dictionary.

ﬁrst collection.

Some details about the ﬂower and seeds are additions

from Roland-Gosselin.

Pterocactus australis (F.A.C. Weber) Backeb.,

In his description, Weber mentioned that O.

Desert Pl. Life 22(10): 17. 1950. Opuntia australis spreads over a range from 40 to 50° S. The

australis F. A. C. Weber, Dict. Hort. [Bois] 2: reference to 40° is very plausibly due to a list of plants

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96. 1898. NEOTYPE (here designated): plate found among Weber’s notes and sent to him by the

6 in the sketchbook “Mission de Santa Cruz de Swedish botanist P. H. K. Dusén, who collected these

r

Patagonie. L’aviso le Volage commandé par M

plants at 39° S, near the Rio Negro; he collected in

Ingous lieutenant de vaisseau. Croquis des plantes Patagonia from 1895 to 1897. On the other hand, the

collectionnées par le docteur Couteaud, exécutés par mention of “to 50° S” most probably refers to the

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tre

cien

le 2 M M Heimsch par ordre du commandant”. Volage expedition.

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d’Histoire Naturelle (P barcode 04594032). In the right apical square, the portion of the plant mounted on the

left, which is here selected as epitype (scale bar 1 cm).

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Fig. 6. Pterocactus australis (Opuntia australis). A: Specimen in ﬂower between cushion-shaped

Verbenaceae plants, in Laguna Blanca, Neuquén province. B: Apical portion of the stem, with thin, ﬂat,

whitish and paper-like spines. Photographs, A: by Marcela Ferreira. B: by Roberto Kiesling.

authorS’ contrIbutIonS

aPPendIx

JRC searched, analysed, and put in order archive 1-Transcription of the description of the plant of

documents from Weber. FT located the sketchbook,

the notebook, and the herbarium sheet, and

collected information about the historical context

of the expedition. DS coordinated the work and 0 .04 ou 0 .05 de h . La racine présente 2 ou

shared information with RK, who investigated the 3 renﬂements tubéreux. Fleurs jaunâtres, comme

nomenclatural status of plate 46 and prepared the satinées. Irritabilité extrême des étamines; au

typiﬁcation. All authors participated in writing the moindre attouchement elles convergent vers le pistil.

plate 46 written by Dr. Couteaud:

Fig. 46

Cactus beaucoup plus petit que le précédent;

m

auteur

article.

[Cactus much smaller than the previous one;

.04 or 0 .05 tall. The root shows 2 or 3 tuberous

m

0

bulges. Flower yellowish, almost silky. Stamens

extremely sensitive; at the slightest touch, they

converge towards the style.]

acKnowledgementS

To the main library of the Muséum National

d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. To Mr. J.-C. Rouxel, 2-Translation of “Le Soleil” newspaper excerpt

webmaster of “Parcours de vie dans la Royale” (http://

ecole.nav.traditions.free.fr), who provided data on

(Fig. 4):

At the last meeting of the academy of sciences,

J.A. Ingouf, P.B. Couteaud, and J.F. Heimsch. To Dr. Captain Fleuriais gave a report about the expedition

Detlev Metzing, who revised the note and corrected devoted to the observation of Venus transit, in Santa

our nomenclatural considerations. To Nelly Horak for Cruz of Patagonia.

the improvement of our poor English style. Also to

the two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their and his collaborators Mrs. Le Pord and Royer de

valuable observations. Saint Julien.

The chairman congratulated Captain Fleuriais

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Moreover, Mr. Fleuriais announced that during HARIOT, P., P. PETIT, J. MULLER D’ARGOVIE,

the expedition, M. Ingouff, Captain of the escort

boat “Volage”, together with an ofﬁcer and a nature

scientist of the Muséum, Mr. Le Brun, in accordance

with the instructions of the navy Minister, had gone

et al. 1889. Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn

1882-1883. Tome V. Botanique . Gauthier-Villars,

Paris [online]. Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/

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along the Santa Cruz river back to the cordillera, PERRIER, R. 1905. Holothuries antarctiques du Muséum

and followed the trail of Fitz-Roy and Darwin in

national d’Histoire naturelle. Annales des Sciences

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832. This expedition, after crossing rapids of 7 to

naturelles, IXe série, p. 1-146.

knots and clearing obstacles of any kind, gathered ROLAND-GOSSELIN, M. R. 1904. Œuvres posthumes

a huge amount of fossils that are now in Paris.

de M. le Dr Weber, médecin inspecteur de l’armée.

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Heimsch par ordre du commandant. Mission de Santa expedition and its participants:

Cruz de Patagonie. L’aviso le Volage commandé

par Mr Ingouf lieutenant de vaisseau. Botanical

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de vaisseau Ingouf, Lartigue, Tracou et Pradier dans le

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