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The "ideal library". A small shopfront library with exquisite design and planning. Many, many innovative features. Co-located with a commercial bookshop and cinema.
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Title: Observationes botanicae quibus plantae Indiae Occidentalis aliaeque systematis vegetabilium ed. XIV illustrantur. Earumque characteres passim emendantur : cum tabulis aeneis
Creator: Swartz, Olof, 1760-1818. n 85815512
Creator: Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Systema vegetabilium. n 88115317
Publisher: Erlangae : Sumtu Jo. Jacobi Palmii
Sponsor: Wellcome Library
Contributor: Wellcome Library
Date: 1791
Language: lat
Description: Signatures: )(⁴ A-2C⁸ 2D⁴
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Here we have discovered a large colony--several thousand individuals-- of the shrub known as "sand myrtle, or Leiophyllum buxifolium which is a member of the curious "crowberry" family (Empetraceae). Some of the plants today exhibited a few open flowers...but the real display starts at the beginning of April, when they all bloom, and it looks like a blanket of snow.
Taken at the Library of Congress Jefferson Building.
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