Book ID: 93547
NORDENSTAM, Bertil
Linneanska Blomster. Porträtt av Växter och Personer Kring Linné. 2007. Ca. 30 full - page colour illustrations. 92 p. 4to. Hardcover. - In Swedish.
Thirty plant protraits having in common names of well known (Swedish)botanists. Linnés stundents count hundreds, but only 17 of them have been called 'apostles' by Linné, because they travelled overseas, toooften risking their life. All of them, except one, plus some otherare dealt with in this book.The standard entry consists ofa coloured plate of the plant, information on the plant and a concise biography. Botanists included are Johannes Franck, O. O.Bromelius, E. E. Tillandz, O. Rudbeck, Olof Celsius, Kilian Stobaeus,Ch. Tärnström, Peter Artedi, Johan Browallius, Pehr Kalm, Olof Torén,Fredrik Hasselquist, Pehr Osbeck, Daniel Rolander, J. P. Halenius,Pehr Löfling, J. Th. Fagraeus, Peter Forsskal, J. P. Falck, DanielSolander, Clas Alströmer, Göran Rothman, Birger Marten Hall, A. J.Retzius, Carl Peter Thunberg, Andreas Berlin, Anders Sparrman, AdamAfzelius, A. Dahl, Gustaf Johan Billberg.