Flora Capensis :
Harvey, William H.,
Flora Capensis : Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories. Volume 1, Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae / William H. Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder. - 1 online resource (580 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture . - Cambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811–66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Opening with a preface which clarifies the project's original scope, Volume 1 covers Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae.
9781107051232 (ebook)
Flora Capensis : Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories. Volume 1, Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae / William H. Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder. - 1 online resource (580 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture . - Cambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811–66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Opening with a preface which clarifies the project's original scope, Volume 1 covers Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae.
9781107051232 (ebook)