Charles Isidore Douin


Charles Isidore Douin was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.
He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces. He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir.
The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor.