Élie-Abel Carrière


Élie-Abel Carrière was a French botanist, based in Paris. He was a leading authority on conifers in the period 1850-1870, describing many new species, and the new genera Tsuga, Keteleeria and Pseudotsuga. His most important work was the Traité Général des Conifères, published in 1855, with a second, extensively revised edition in 1867.
There is a brief biography of Carrière, in English, in the journal Brittonia.
In addition to his studies of conifers, he published a number of works in the field of horticulture:
In 1880, he described Iris orchioides.