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English: Drawing made by Linnaeus while on his expedition to Lapland comparing the legendary Andromeda to a small plant which he later gave that name.
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(Skrifter af Carl von Linné : Utgifna af Kungl. svenska vetenskapsakademien / Öfversatt till Svenska språket af Th. M. Fries. — Upsala : Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b., 1913. — Vol. 5. Iter Lapponicum : andra upplagan med bilagor och noter. — S. 72.)
Author Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Note also that it appears on Page 51 of "The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus" (2001) by Wilfrid Blunt [1]

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