earlier synonyms: Cannabis folis digitatis, used in his 
Hortus Chffortianus of 1788; C. sativa and C. erratica of 
Bauhin in 1623; C. mas and C. femina of D’ Aléchamps 
in 1587. 
The Linnean Society of London preserves in the Lin- 
nean Herbarium two species of Cannabis. One specimen, 
No. 1177.1*, is labelled ‘‘sativa’’ in Linnaeus’ hand- 
writing and represents a staminate plant with much more 
abbreviated leaves than is usual for what we consider 
normal for Cannabis sativa. The other specimen, No. 
1177.2*, without any specific epithet written on the 
sheet, represents a pistillate plant with the lanceolate leaf- 
lets that are commonly encountered in Cannbais sativa. 
No locality data are found on these two collections, 
although, in Species Plantarum, Linnaeus offers the in- 
formation that the species has a ‘‘habitat in India’’. In 
his annotated copy of Species Plantarum, preserved in 
the Linnean Society, Linnaeus had written in his own 
hand, as a note for any future edition, the word ‘‘Persia’’ 
as an additional habitat. It should, of course, be borne 
in mind that, in Kurope in 1758, geographical delimita- 
tions were far from strict and that ‘‘habitat in India’’ 
and ‘‘Persia’’ represented extremely vague and wide 
areas, undoubtedly not corresponding precisely with to- 
day’s India and Persia. Indeed, Linnaeus’ ‘‘India’’ is 
often equivalent to modern China. 
It is clear that these two specimens were not in 
Linnaeus’ herbarium in 1753. He added them later. 
Linnaeus did not cite any specimens in his Species 
Plantarum, nor did he offer any description of his Can- 
nabis sativa. He based his recognition of Cannabis sativa 
on the kind of hemp commonly cultivated in northern 
* Index number assigned to specimen in the Linnean Herbarium 
by the late M. Spencer Savage, Secretary of the Linnean Society of 
London. 
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