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Backeberg: Blätter für Kakteenforschung, 1934-38
Backeberg: Die Cactaceae, 1958-62
Backeberg: various rare catalogues.
Backeberg: Kaktus ABC, 1936 (dated 1935)
Berger: Die Agaven.
Berger: Kakteen.
Berger: A systematic revision of the genus Cereus Mill..
Bigelow: “Report on the botany of the expedition”, 1856
Bonpland: Description des plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre, 1813.
Bradley: The history of succulent plants, 1716-1727!
Britton et Rose: The cactaceae, the original!
Brown, Tischer, Karsten: Mesembryanthema, 1931
Burman: Plantarum Americanarum, 1755-1760
(de) Candolle: Revue de la famille des cactées, 1829.
(de) Candolle: Mémoire sur quelques espèces nouvelles de cactées, 1829.
(de) Candolle & Redouté: Histoire des plantes grasses, 1799…
Coulter: A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus…
Darwin: The power of movement in plants.
Diguet: Les cactées utiles du Mexique.
Engelmann: The cactaceæ of the boundary, 1857-59
Engelmann: “Report on the botany of the expedition”, 1856
Engelmann: Various Cacteæ, Yucca, Agave
Fearn: Lithops, 1981.
Fearn & Pearcy: The genus Rebutia, 1981.
Förster: Handbuch der Cacteenkunde, 1846 & 1886.
Fournier: Les cactées et plantes grasses, 1954.
Fric and Kreuzinger: three famous catalogues.
Fric et Kreuzinger: Zur Revision der Systematik der Kakteen von Karl Kreuzinger.
Guillaumin: Les cactées cultivées, 1935.
Jahandiez: Plantes grasses autres que les cactées, 1935.
Kiesßling: Tephrocactus…, 2000.
Krainz et al.: Die Kakteen.
Lambert: Cactus d'Argentine, seconde édition, 1997
Lemaire: Cactearum aliquot…, of 1838
Lemaire: les cactées, dated 1868, in old french.
Lemaire: Iconographie descriptive des cactées, dated 1841-1847.
Lemaire: Les plantes grasses autre que les cactées., 1869.
Lindley: Paxton's flower garden.
Link & Otto: Ueber die Gattungen Melocactus und Echinocactus, 1827.
Loddiges: The Botanical Cabinet, 1817-1833.
Marshall and Bock: The cactaceae… continued.
Moser: Kakteen — Adolfo Maria Friedrich und sein schönes Paraguay, 1985.
Mottram: Charles Plumier, the King's botanist. Bradleya 2002.
Nel: Lithops. The first book devoted to the “living stones”.
Nel: The Gibbaeum Handbook.
Paxton: Paxton's flower garden.
Pfeiffer & Otto: Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen, 1838-50.
Phytographe: strange although instructive and premonitory.
Pilbeam: Gymnocalycium. A collector's guide, 1995.
Putnam: Gymnocalyciums, 1978.
Rausch: the ”lobivia” of 1975 and 1985.
Redouté: Les Liliacées, 26 plates, 1802…
Redouté & (de) Candolle: Histoire des plantes grasses, 1799…
Říha & Šubík: The illustrated encyclopedia of Cacti and other succulents, 1981.
Ritter: Kakteen Südamerika, 1979-81
Ritter/Winter: Catalogues of the '50
Rose: Notes on useful plants of Mexico.
Rowley: Pierre-Joseph Redouté — “Raphael of the succulents”., article from CSJ GB, 1956
Rowley: Iconographie Descriptive des Cactées — Introduction to Strawberry Press Edition.
Schumann: Flora Brasiliensis — Cactaceae, 1890.
Schumann: Gesamtbeschreung der Kakteen (without supplement).
Schumann, Gürke, Vaupel: Blühende Kakteen
Sprechman: Lithops, 1970.
Thiébaut: Cactées et plantes grasses, 1935.
Wahl: Lobivia 89.
Watson: the “Old, old Lexicon”.
Weniger: Cacti of Texas and neighboring states, 1984.
Weniger: Cacti of the Southwest, 1970.
Werdermann: Blühende Kakteen… continued.
Zuccarini: Plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum quae in horto botanico herbarioque regio monacensi servantur, 1832-1845.

Ashingtonia: Journal 1973-1979.
Boletín de la Sociedad Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Cactáceas y otras Suculentas.
Bradleya: yearbook of the BCSS.
Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain: 1932-1982.
Cactus & Co: Cactus & Co journal. Old issues of this very beautiful italian publication. Anciens numéros de cette très belle publication italienne.
The cactus Explorers: English Journal 2011-.
Catalogues: Old french catalogues.
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Cacti and other succulents. A beautiful series of colour plates.
Edwards's Botanical Register: Cacti and other succulents. Again a beautiful series of colour plates.
Flore des serres et des jardins de l'europe: Belgian periodical of the 19^th century.
Illustration horticole: Belgian periodical of the 19^th century.
Informationsbriefe Echinopseen: Old issues of a publication devoted to Trichocereus, Echinopsis, Lobivia, Rebutia, Sulcorebutia, Weingartia…
Jardin fleuriste: Belgian periodical of the 19^th siècle.
Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde, 19-20^th century.
Schütziana — The Gymnocalycium online journal.
Succulenta: Old issues of the dutch journal, and various other stuff.
Sukkulentenkunde — J. SKG: Sukkulentenkunde — Jahrbücher der Schweizerischen Kakteen-Gesellschaft.

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Digital library, any natural sciences.
Botanicus: Botanical digital library. Missouri Botanical Garden.
…Europeana: General purpose database (text, image, video, sound).
Field number query: Field numbers; Other internal links are available from this site.
Gallica: Digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
International Plant Names Index: Plants, authors, publicatiosn.
Internet archive: Generic digital library + sound + video + ….
Latin glossary: Botanical latin glossary.
Opuntiads of the USA: Opuntia literature.
Project Gutenberg: General digital library.
Real Jardín Botánico: Botanical digital library.
Tropicos: Botanical database.
Université de Strasbourg: Digital library of Strasbourg University.

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