Kuropean gardens at that period. Stearn (24) has typified 
Cannabis sativa by choosing as lectoty pea pistillate speci- 
men from Hortus Ciffortianus and now preserved in the 
British Museum (Natural History). Until this typifica- 
tion was made, there might well have been doubt as to 
what Linnaeus actually meant by Cannabis sativa, re- 
gardless of the general use of this binomial for more than 
two centuries. 
Although the two specimens in the Linnean Herbari- 
um are of little taxonomic or nomenclatural significance, 
since neither one can be a type, there seems to be no 
reason to doubt that Linnaeus considered them to rep- 
resent what he had already called Cannabis sativa. Con- 
sequently, it would be of interest if we could somehow 
ascertain the provenience of these two specimens. His 
annotation “‘habitat in India’’ does not constitute a 
guarantee that he had seen specimens that actually had 
come from Asia. Linnaeus was, of course, familiar with 
hemp as cultivated in northern Kurope, including his na- 
tive Sweden, and there is astrong probability that these 
two later specimens may have been locally collected. 
Although very scanty, the two specimens in the Lin- 
nean Herbarium are of very different aspect. The pistil- 
late specimen (1177.2) has leaves with fewer than the 
usual number of leaflets; the leaflets are long, linear- 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, with very sharply pointed 
but not coarse serrulation. The staminate specimen 
(1177.1) is very distinctive, with trifoliate leaves, the 
leaflets of which are short, elliptic to somewhat elliptic- 
lanceolate, apically almost blunt, with coarse, not 
markedly pointed serrulation. 
Even though the type method in taxonomy was not 
employed in Linnaeus’ time and although Linnaeus did 
not have these two specimens at hand in 1758, it is 
interesting and perhaps significant that the staminate 
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