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A system of vegetables, according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... Tr. from the 13th ed. (as pub. 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.

by Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778

Printed by J. Jackson for Leigh and Sotheby, 1783.

Botany -- Classification -- Early works to 1800.

Plant names, Popular -- Great Britain.

2 v. XI pl. 22 cm.

Paged continuously; v. 1: 2 p.l., ii, lvi, 424 p.; v. 2: 1 p.l., [425]-897 p., 1 l., [30] p.

Vol. 1 has special t.-p. dated 1782.

Each plate accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress.

"Botanical terms and definitions" [tr. from the thesis of Dr. Elmgren] v. 1, p. [xiii]-xl.

"An alphabetical catalogue of English and Scotch names of plants, from the most approved botanical writers, refer'd to their respective genera," 1784: 1 l., [30] p. at end of v. 2.

Linné, Carl von, 1741-1783

Elmgren, Johan.

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Systema vegetabilium. English

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