Flora Svecica

Book by Carolus Linnaeus

Flora Svecica ("Flora of Sweden", ed. 1, Stockholm, 1745; ed. 2 Stockholm, 1755) was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).^[1]

This was the first full account of the plants growing in Sweden and one of the first examples of the Flora in the modern idiom.^[2] The full title of the publication was Flora Svecica: Enumerans Plantas Sueciae Indigenas Cum Synopsi Classium Ordinumque, Characteribus Generum, Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Citationibusque Selectis - Locis Regionibusque Natalibus - Descriptionibus Habitualibus Nomina Incolarum Et Qualitat.

Bibliographic details

Full bibliographic details including exact dates of publication, pagination, editions, facsimiles, brief outline of contents, location of copies, secondary sources, translations, reprints, manuscripts, travelogues, and commentaries are given in Stafleu and Cowan's Taxonomic Literature.

References

^ Full download of Flora Svecica
^ Frodin, 2002.

Bibliography

Frodin, David 2002. Guide to Standard Floras of the World, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S. 1981. "Taxonomic Literature. A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications with dates, Commentaries and Types. Vol III: Lh–O." Regnum Vegetabile 105.

External links

Flora Svecica is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Carl Linnaeus

Published works

Linnaeus bibliography
Systema Naturae (1735)
Fundamenta Botanica (1736)
Bibliotheca Botanica (1736)
Musa Cliffortiana (1736)
Critica Botanica (1737)
Flora Lapponica (1737)
Genera Plantarum (1737)
Hortus Cliffortianus (1737)
Classes Plantarum (1738)
Flora Svecica (1745)
Fauna Svecica (1746)
Philosophia Botanica (1751)
Species Plantarum (1753)
Centuria Insectorum (1763)
Mantissa Plantarum Altera (1771)
Systema Vegetabilium (1774)

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Taxonomy (biology)
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Natural history
History of biology
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Scientific racism

Apostles of Linnaeus

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Elisabeth Christina von Linné (daughter))
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Johann Bauhin
Peter Artedi
Herman Boerhaave
Johannes Burman
George Clifford III

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