Description:
Bound notebook with plant catalogued according to the sexual system, covering class I (Monandria) to class XIV (Didynamia).
Plant name and short description in Latin is followed by a Swedish paragraph, giving a fuller description of the plant, as well as its medical and economic use - many plants are country oats and other edible plants.
Identifies the geographical origin of the plants: mostly from Swedish regions, as well as France and England. With vernacular Swedish names next to their Latin ones.
Refers to Duchesne, A.-N. 1764. "Manuel de botanique : contenant les propriétés des plantes utiles pour la nourriture, d'usage en médecine, employées dans les arts, d'ornement pour les jardins", and Gunnerus, J. E. 1766. "Flora Norvegica".
Brown paper cover.
Title:
Plant catalogue, classes I to XIV
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1741-1783