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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06756
Record number:
06756-001
JCB call number:
G798 R851d
Image title:
[Fig. 1 Eriocaulon Amplexicaule; Fig. 2 Panicum Lanatum]
Place image published:
[Copenhagen & Leipzig]
Image publisher:
[Johann Heinrich Schubothe]
Image date:
[1798]
Image function:
plate 1; following p. 22
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
22.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
34.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Fig. 1 Branch of the Eriocaulon Amplexicaule plant with its flowers. Includes details of flower and its parts. Fig. 2 Stem of the Panicum Lanatum plant. Items are lettered for identification in explanatory table in text.
Source creator:
Rottbøll, Christen Friis, 1727-1797
Source Title:
Christiani Friis Rottböll anatomiae et botanices in Universitate Hafniensi profesoris. Descriptiones plantarum quarundam surinamensium, ...
Source place of publication:
Hafniae et Lipsiae [Copenhagen & Leipzig]
Source publisher:
Apud Iohannem Henricum Schubothe.
Source date:
1798
notes:
Eriocaulon amplexicaule has been equated with Tonina fluviatilis, but that plant does not resemble this drawing. Panicum lanatum has been identified as Lasiacis sorghoidea or woodland tribisee, a grass. Describes plants collected by D. Rolander in Surinam. Image titles from text.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Urban, I. Symbolae antillanae, Berlin, 1898-1900, p. 490; Quattrocchi, U. CRC world dictionary of grasses, p. 1184.
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1900.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Suriname

[Fig. 1 Eriocaulon Amplexicaule; Fig. 2 Panicum Lanatum]

     
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[Fig. 1 Eriocaulon Amplexicaule; Fig. 2 Panicum Lanatum]