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Paper, 'Of a species of Ophrys probably that names by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica' by Georg Dionysius Ehret

Reference number: L&P/4/152

Date: 1763

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Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a species of ophris, supposed to be the plant, which is mentioned by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica, p. 185, under the name of ophris scapo nudo foliis radicalibus ovato-oblongis, dimidii scapi longitudine: By George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S.'

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L&P/4/152
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1763
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Georg Dionysius Ehret, Paper, 'Of a species of Ophrys probably that names by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica' by Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1763, L&P/4/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_152/paper-of-a-species-of-ophrys-probably-that-names-by-gronovius-in-the-flora-virginica-by-georg-dionysius-ehret, accessed on 20 June 2025

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