FRIED in cif Eiiinrvirr and his exstcc.vt.e 823 



{)riiiteil hibols glvini^ name and iiuni])Ci', are, like tlie rest of the 

 Exsic(rat-.e, scattered througli Smith's herbarium, with a reference in 

 his hand to the series to whicli each specimen belonged. According 

 to Meyer (I.e.) the Plantie /SV/ec^^c comprised sixteen fascicles : this 

 militates against my suggestion as to the identity of the I^lanlce 

 Selectee with the Flantce E.vsiccatce, which latter Smith believed 

 " was not continued to any extent " ; 1)ut Smith may have had an 

 imperfect set. In any case, J can lind no reference save that of 

 vSmith to the FI. Exsiccatce, and it may be noted that Smith says 

 these were " published subsecpiently to all the foregoing," which was 

 the case with the Fl. ^Selectee. 



Alphonse de Candolle {^Flujloijrapliie, p. 410) states that the 

 Arbores (14 fascicles) and Flautce Selectee (10) are in the l)e Can- 

 dolle Herbarium ; the Fhijtophtjlacium (8 decades) is in the Depart- 

 ment of Botany and at Kew, where there is bound with it the lists 

 prefixed to Flantcs Selectee; these were received with Gay's her- 

 barium, and the specimens corresponding with them ai-e scattered 

 through the general collection. The sixteen decades of the Flantce 

 CryptogamcB are in like manner distributed througli the ervptoganuc 

 herbarium of the Department of Botany. Ehrhart's own herbarium 

 {Jide A. DC, I. c.) is in the Universite of Grottingen, and there are 

 " des collections dans I'herb. de rUniv. de Moscou, de TUniv. de 

 Leipzig." Lasegue (Mus. 13ot. 559) says that the Moscow collection 

 was " formee a Upsal sous I'inspection meme de Linne." 



I. "PiiYTOPKi'LACiLM Ehehaetianum coutineus Plantas quas 

 in locis earum natalibus collegit et exsiccavit Fredericus Ehrhart 

 Helveto-Bernas." 



This contained ten decades, an index to whicli is given by Ehrhart 

 in his Beitrdge zi/r Naturhunde, iv. 145-49; 1789). The copies in 

 the Department of Botan}^ and at Kew contain, as has been said, only 

 eight decades, each of which bears the date 1780. Th. M. Fries, in 

 his interesting paper " Zur Kenntniss der Ehrhart'schen Flechten " 

 {Flora, 1881, pp. 220-224) states that decades 9 and 10 were issued 

 in 1785. The assertion of F. Arnold {Flora, 1880, p. 542) that the 

 Fliytoplujlacium contained at least 16 decades is l)ased on the citation 

 by Elias Fries (Lich. eur. ref. p. 245) of the Ehrhartian number 

 "IGO" for Cladonia ^j>rcj;/Z/o.srf ; this, however, was doubtless a 

 typographical error, as the plant stands as " 100. Papillaria. Lichen 

 Papillaria Ehrh." in Ehrhart's list. The error has also been pointed 

 out by Th. M. Fries (/. c). 



A "Nachricht an das Publicum," containing a detailed plan of the 

 Fliytophylacium, appears in Ehrhart's Beitrage, i. 70-76 ; this was 

 previously issued as a four-page leaflet (in black letter), which is 

 prefixed to the Departmental copy of the work : it is dated " Hannover, 

 im October, 1779." Ehrhart states that only tAventy-five copies of 

 the FJiytophylaciinn would be issued; each specimen was to have a 

 label giving the number, the " nomen propriuin," the Linnean synonym 

 or that of a succeeding authority, and the jolace of growth. The 

 " nomen proprium " he had previously explained as that which he had 

 himself bestowed on the plant, consisting of one name only — a method 

 which he considered would be for general convenience. This explains 



