of particular importance in the history of botany and one of the first to describe the flora known. Vaillant introduced the terms of stamen, ovary, and egg in their current direction. All his life, Vaillant opposed the theses of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. As a mark of respect Carl von Linné named a genus Valantia after Vaillant in the Rubiaceae. His herbarium is now kept at the National Museum of Natural History, France. References External links Vaillant, Sébastien (1727) Botanicon Parisiense, ou Denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library 1669 births 1722 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations 18th-century French botanists French mycologists Pre-Linnaean botanists Members of the French Academy of Sciences National Museum of Natural History (France) people 17th-century French botanists