Cambridge Library Collection-Botany and Horticulture Ser.: Flora Atlantica: ...

Flora atlantica: Volume 3, PlatesSive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt\nAuthor(s): Ren Louiche Desfontaines\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108064491, 978-1108064491\nSynopsis\nA member, and later president, of the Acadmie des Sciences, French botanist and doctor Ren Louiche Desfontaines [tel] spent the years 17835 on an expedition to North Africa. During his time in Tunisia and Algeria, he collected over a thousand plant specimens: more than three hundred genera were new to European naturalists at this time. Having succeeded Le Monnier in the chair of botany at the Jardin du Roi in 1786, Desfontaines helped found the Institut de France following the Revolution and published his two-volume Flora atlantica in Latin in 17989. A lavishly illustrated second edition appeared in four volumes in 1800. Combining its two volumes of plates into one, this reissue .