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s to ''Suppl. Pl.'', is a 1782 book by
Carolus Linnaeus the Younger Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre (Swedish language, Swedish; abbreviated Carl von Linné d. y.), or ''Linnaeus filius'' (Latin for ''Linnaeus the son''; abbreviated L.fil. (outdated) or L.f. (mo ...
. Written entirely in
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, it was intended as a supplement to the 1737 ' and the 1753 ', both written by the author's father, the "father of modern taxonomy",
Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
. Its full title means: “''Supplement of Plants'', the 13th edition of ''A System of Vegetables'', the 6th edition of ''The Genera of Plants'' and the 2nd edition of ''The Species of Plants''”, listing the components of the book in order of presentation. The ''Systematis Vegetabilium'' (13th edition) in the title refers to ' as published in 1774 by
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, a student of Linnaeus, Sr. The cover page indicates that it was published in 1781, and it was long believed to have been published in October of that year. In 1976, however, Hermann Manitz used a letter written by
Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (4 November 1742, Holderbank, Aargau – 26 June 1795) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical ...
to show that it had in fact been published in April 1782. Furthermore, the cover page states that the book was originally printed in Brunswick ('),
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, northwestern Germany by the printshop Orphanotropheum (' means ‘At the expense of the Orphanotropheum’). The book has 467 pages.
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's Lichfield Botanical Society as ''A System of Vegetables'' (1785). It leaves the
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untranslated in the original Latin, but uses English in the keys and descriptions.


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