Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei
Subtitle: cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, et synonymis auctorum justis
By: secundum systema sexuale ex autopsia concinnavit atque solicite digessit Petrus Jonas Bergius
Publisher: Typis et Impensis direct. Laur. Salvii
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Stockholmæ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Botany; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Plantæ Capenses; Plantæ Capenses
Notes: "Cum Tabulis aeneis."

Emendanda: p. [36], [368].

Printed margin notes.

Indices on unnumbered pages at end.

"Bergius's first major publication, and the first Linnean flora of South African plants.... Bergius had been Linnaeus's pupil, and based this flora on the collections of Cape plants assembled by Mikael Grubb, a director of the Swedish East India Company."--Antiquariaat FORUM (viewed February 11, 2016).

Includes bibliographic references, "Auctorum citationes explicatae," (p. [27]-[36]) and indexes.

Access to portions of this material may be restricted.

Pritzel, 673.

Lib. copy lacks half-title page, Plantæ Capense. (preliminary page numbering begins with these 2 missing pages).

Lib. copy page 231 misnumbered 281.

Lib. copy page after page 360 has faded number 361 at top right (signature Z5).

Lib. copy has 5 folded leaves of plates at end. Tab. I has fig. 1-2 on plate (Arre delin., Bergquist Sculpsit); Tab. II has fig. 3 on plate (Arre delin., Bergquist Sculpsit); Tab. 3 has fig. 4-5 on plate, no artists named ; Tab. IV has fig. 6-7 on plate, no artists named; Tab. V has fig. 8-10, no artists named.