Flora Capensis 7 Volume Set in 10 Pieces : Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories Mixed media product
by William H. Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder, William T. Thiselton-Dyer
Edited by Arthur W. Hill
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture series
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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.
Volume 1 opens with a preface which clarifies the project's original scope.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781108068161
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:6728 pages, 8 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781108068161
