AUTHOR: Desfontaines, Rene Louiche (1750-1833) TITLE: Catalogues plantarum horti regii Parisiensis, cum annotationibus de planits novis aut minus cognitis, auctore Renato Desfontaines. Editio tertia. IMPRINT: Parisiis: Chaude, 1829. COLLATION: xvii, 416 p.; 22 cm. NOTES: A third edition of: Tableau de l’Ecole de botanique du Museum d’histoire naturelle. “Third edition, substantially enlarged, of Desfontaines’ catalogue of plants in the teaching garden of the Jardin du Roi…This, the last of Desfontaines’ catalogues, records the enormous expantion of species in the gardens since the time of the previous catalogue in 11815. In addition, the work is much more detailed in the information and references given for each species. Desfontaines has also added references to the most accurate illusrations available of each species.” — William Patrick Watson, Plants and Gardens: a pring miscellany, 1995 REFERENCES: Stafleu and Cowan TL2 1394. KEYWORDS: 1. Botany. 2. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (France). LOCATION: QK73.D44 1829