Auguste le Jolis

French botanist (1823-1904).

Auguste François Le Jolis (1 December 1823, Cherbourg - 20 August 1904, Cherbourg) was a French merchant, judge and botanist. He is largely known for investigations of cryptogams (algae, hepatics, mosses) found in the department of Manche. In August 1852, he was a founding member of the Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg. Le Jolis distributed the exsiccata series Algues marines de Cherbourg. He was elected to Corresponding membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1859. The algae genus Lejolisia (family Wrangeliaceae) was named afte