AN HERBARIUM. 30$ 



numbers having been temporary till the book 

 to which they refer was printed, after which 

 they were confirmed with a pen, and a copy 

 of the book, now also in my hands, was 

 marked in reference to them. Here there-- 

 fore we do not depend on the opinion merely, 

 even of Linnaeus, for we have always before 

 our eyes the very object which was under his 

 inspection. We have similar indications of 

 the plants described in his subsequent works, 

 the herbarium being most defective in those 

 of his 2d Mantissa, his least accurate pub- 

 lication. We often find remarks there, made 

 from specimens acquired after the Species 

 Plant arum was published. These the her- 

 barium occasionally shows to be of a different 

 species from the original one, and it thus 

 enables us to correct such errors. 



The specimens thus pasted, are conveni- 

 ently kept in lockers, or on the shelves of a 

 proper cabinet. Linnoeus in the PhUosophia 

 Botanica exhibits a figure of one, divided 

 into appropriate spaces for each class, which 

 he supposed would hold his whole collection. 

 But he lived to fill two more of equal iize. 

 and his herbarium has been perhaps doubled 



