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Lidén Number 102
Respondent: Gabriel Elmgren (1730-1765)
Title: Plantarum Jamaicensium Pugillus, ...
Date of Defense: 28 November 1759
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-31, [1]
Lidén Title: Plantarum jamaicensium pugillus.
Soulsby Title: Pl. Jam.
Drake Title: Plantarum Jamaicensium Pugillus.
Note: P. 5 unnumbered.
Abstract: An account of 130 of the more rare of the 1,200 or so species of Jamaican plants of which specimens were presented to Linnaeus by Patrick Browne. The specimens are now in the Linnaeus herbarium at the Linnean Society of London.