A system of vegetables
Subtitle: according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ...
By: 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.
Contributors: Linné, Carl von, 1741-1783.; Elmgren, Johan.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by J. Jackson for Leigh and Sotheby
Published: 1783
Place of publication: Lichfield
Language: eng
Subjects: Plants -- Classification -- Early works to 1800.; Plant names, Popular -- Great Britain.
Genres: Classification; Early works to 1800.
Notes: 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.