Volume 1

A system of vegetables. According to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... / Translated from the thirteenth ed. (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present Professor Linneus ... By a Botanical Society, at Lichfield [i.e. E. Darwin, etc].

  • Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A system of vegetables. According to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... / Translated from the thirteenth ed. (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present Professor Linneus ... By a Botanical Society, at Lichfield [i.e. E. Darwin, etc]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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