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Lidén Number 32
Respondent: Leonhard Johan Chenon (1732-1808)
Title: ..., qua Nova Plantarum Genera ...
Date of Defense: 19 October 1751
Paginations: [viii], [2], 3-47, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Nova plantarum genera [1751].
Soulsby Title: Nova pl. gen. 1751
Drake Title: Nova Plantarum Genera.
Note: P. 13 misnumbered 15.
Abstract: This is part II of the earlier work (1747) of the same title of which Carl M. Dassow was the respondent. It is chiefly an account of eight new genera and their species, of plants collected by Pehr Kalm (1716-1779) in North America. A review of pre-Kalmian collectors in North America is provided.