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Who wrote 'Historia Generalis Plantarum' that has 3 volumes and description of 18600 plants?

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John Ray, an English Naturalist

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Hutchinson, an English Taxonomist

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Ernst Haeckel, a German Naturalist

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Linnaeus, a Swedish Biologist

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