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Lidén Number 105
Respondent: Carl Gustaf Sandmark (1738?-1769)
Title: Flora Jamaicensis, ...
Date of Defense: {22} December 1759
Paginations: [vi], [1], 8-27, [1]
Lidén Title: Flora jamaicensis.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Jam.
Drake Title: Flora Jamaicensis.
Note: Two copies have day supplied in manuscript; one copy lacks day.
Abstract: This work is based on specimens of some 1,200 species of Jamaican plants received by Linnaeus from Patrick Browne (1720-1790) and information on some 800 species collected by Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Linnaeus also used information in Browne's A civil and natural history of Jamaica (London, 1756) and in Sloane's A voyage to the islands Madeira... and Jamaica (London, 1707-1725).