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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N0TE8. 

 LXXIX. Lehmann's PuaiLLi. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett has called my attention to the passage in 

 Mr. Williams's Prodromus (i. 3J^6) in which the latter cites for the 

 first publication of Utricularia neglecta Lehm. : " Schul-progi*amm 

 unci Vorlesungsverzeichniss des Hamburg Gymnasiums fiir 1828, 

 p. 38 — this old pamphlet consists chiefly of a list of children attending 

 a local school, with an outline of the course of lessons for the term, a 

 singular medium for the publication of new plants." Mr. Bennett 

 adds : *' Tliis certainly would be so, but the real publication is contained 

 in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's first Fucjlllus Flantarum, Ham- 

 burg, 1828, and how it came in the other place it is now impossible to 

 ascertain." 



From a nomenclatorial point of view the matter is of no im- 

 portance, for the date as will have been seen is identical in each case, 

 so that the question of the validity of publication in a '* Scliul- 

 programm" does not arise, and 17. negJectn is now by common 

 consent referred to the earlier XT. major. But a few points in con- 

 nection with the PugilU seem of suflicient interest to place on 

 record. 



The first PugiJlns, containing 29 species, appeared in Nova Acta 

 Acad. Caes. Leopold- Carol, xiv. part 2, pp. 799-82G (1829), Avith an 

 additional footnote on the first i)age which explains its origin : " Ed 

 Lidice ScJtoIarum, in Hamhurgemium Gginnasio Academico a 

 jntscha 1828 usque ad 2)ascham 1829 hahendarum, Ramburgi 1828, 

 pugillum hunc plantarum, in Acta nostra ti-anslatum, figuris quarun- 

 dam stirpium rariorum exornavimus." From this it will be seen that 

 the plates which appear in the reprinted Fugillus did not^accdmpany 

 the original descriptions. In Nov. Acta, xvi. pp. 314-320 ( 1832), 

 appeared a *' continuatio " of the Fugillus containing descriptions 

 of eight species of Cactus, with plates ; this bears on its title the 

 same date — "Acad. trad, vere a 1828" — as the first part, of which 

 it was perhaps originally intended to form a portion. When the 

 Fugillus was reissued by Lehmann as the first in his volume 

 NoiHiPum et minus cognifarum Stirpium Fugillus i.-x. (Hamburg, 

 1828-57), these Cacti were interpolated between nos. iv and v ; the 

 date 1828 which appears for this is therefore misleading as far as 

 these eight species are concerned, for, as has been shown, these did 

 not appear until 1832. Apart from these, the text of the reissue, 

 which was reset and independently paged, is identical with that of the 

 Nova Acta, save for an added note C' O^^s. ii") on Fotentilla Sie- 

 mensiana (p. 33j ; the plates, with the exception of the Cacti, are 

 included, the numbers having been cut off to bring them within the 

 size of the reprint. 



In an interesting introduction to the reprint, Lehmann, who had 

 hrfld the post of Professor of Natural History in the Gymnasium (of 

 which he subsequently became Rector) gives an account of the origin 

 of the work. In 1821 he became Director of the Hamburg Garden, 

 of the work of which he had printed an account — Bericht uher den 



