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numbers having been temporary till tlic book 

 to which they refer was printed, after which 

 they were confirmed \\lth a pen, and a copy 

 of the book, now also in my hands, was 

 marked in reference to thejn. Here there- 

 fore we do nci depend on the opinion merely, 

 even of Llnna^u-^, for we have always before 

 our eyes the very object w hlcli 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 Mantis.sa, his least accurate pub- 

 lication. We often finrl remarks there, made 

 from specimens acquired after the Species 

 FUDitanuji was published. Tliese the her- 

 barium orcasionallv shows to be of a different 

 species from the original one, and it thu^ 

 enables us to correct such errors. 



The specimens thus pasted, are conveni- 

 ently kept in lockers, or on the shelves of a 

 proper cabinet. Linnaeus in the Philosophia 

 Botanica exhibits a ligure of one, divided 

 into appropriate spaces for each class, which 

 lie supposed would hold lus whole collection. 

 But he lived to fill two more of equal size, 

 and his herbarium has been perhaps doubled 



