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1660 Sloane ( - )

France;Jamaica

Specialist groups: Index Herb., Coll. S

Active in years Herbarium: BM(-SL) (in many large volumes; the most important pre-Linnean collection in the world containing many thousands of specimens collected by the leading botanists of his time). France (col. 1683, e.g. Montpellier), Great Britain (col. London area) & Jamaica (voyage to, 1687-89); also plants from Madeira, Barbados, Nevis & St. Kitts; and plants from Isles of Scilly): BM-SL. Collections: LE, OXF.

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