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original names so as to render them quite illegible, and sub- 

 stituted others; so that unless some botanist of correct 

 judgment, and well acquainted with Cape plants, were to 

 come and bestow some months on going through his her- 

 barium, the puzzles of the Flora Capensis must remain un- 

 cleared. The specimens are generally small, but with a few 

 exceptions tolerably satisfactory and well preserved. Afzelius* 

 Sierra Leone collection is a very fine one ; one set is glued 

 down, after the pattern of Thunberg's, and the remainder, 

 often many duplicates, are loose in sheets of a larger size. 

 The specimens are generally good, and many of them accom- 

 panied by fruits in a separate collection, but with references 

 to the specimens. 



The living collection in the Botanical Garden, though not 

 kept in such good order as could be wished, is tolerably rich. 

 The Russian species received through the Petersburg gar- 

 den, flourish well here ; other exotics are such as could be 

 obtained through Booth, of Flottbeck, and some interesting 

 plants are the descendants of those cultivated by Linneeus, 

 and thus constitute the only authentic specimens of such as 

 did not dry for his herbarium. We went with Professor 

 Fries to see the house in which Linneeus lived, and the garden 

 where he cultivated his ** Hort. Upsal." plants, now no longer 

 belonging to the family ; but in which the buildings used by 

 this great father of modern botany as greenhouses and lecture- 

 room still exist, and a poplar-tree, known to be planted by his 

 own hands, is shown with great reverence. Proud thongh we 

 m ay be in England of possessing his collections, it is impos- 

 sible to be at Upsala, where so much is associated with his 

 name, to see the respect paid to his memory, and the value 

 attached to the few manuscripts or other remembrances of 

 him which they have been able to amass, without feeling that 

 this is the place where his library and herbarium ought to be, 

 and that if they had been here the botanical world would long 

 since have known what information can or cannot be derived 

 from the specimens preserved, and as a tribute to his extra- 

 ordinary genius, such of his manuscripts as are really interest- 



