THE LINNEAN HERBAEIUM. 



The Linnean herbarium itself is knowu at lio)))e and abroad 

 to many botanists, who have consulted it, but to the modern 

 systematist, accustomed to good specimens accompanied by full 

 information on the collector's tickets, it may be disappointing. 

 The paper is small, 12i by 8 inches (32 cm. x 20-5 cm.), and 

 the information when given is often meagre. Linue evidently 

 trusted to a strong and retentive memory, so that his notes 

 are very brief, or little more than arbitrary signs to remind 

 him of the source of the specimen. The specimens are usually 

 authenticated by a number, namely, that prefixed to tlie species 

 in the first edition of the ' Species Plantarum' in 1753, followed 

 by the specific or "trivial" name; the species added to his 

 collection up to the 10th edition of his ' Sytema Naturae,' vol. ii. 

 1759, are siiown by capital letters, in the case of Hedysarum 

 extending from A to L. With the second edition of the ' Species 

 Plantarum' in 1762-3, an entirely new series of numbering was 

 used, and in the latest (12th) edition of the ' Systema Natune ' in 

 1767, additions were numbered on, but put nearest to their allies, 

 disregarding their Jiumerical order; this enlarged numbering was 

 not employed in the herbarium. 



In small or moderately large genera, one cover suffices ; at 

 the bottom left-hand corner is the generic name written by Linne, 

 but in the case of monotypic genera, the number " 1 " is often the 

 only authentication on the species-sheets. I have in such cases 

 printed the name as being non-existent, but have put (pi.) after 

 it, to show that the type is there, though not verified under the 

 hand of the author. Similarly, all names in italic type are names 

 either not vouched for by Linne, or are absent from the collection; 

 the names written by him are printed in ordinary Eoman type ; 

 where the name has been written b}^ an amanuensis, I have added 

 (m. Sol.) = manu Solandri, or other assistant as the case may be. 

 It is only where I am convinced by the special circumstances of 

 each case, that I have allowed myself this licence. Thus, we have 

 the distinct assurance from Sir J. E. Smith, that Solan der wrote 

 all the specific names to PatricK Browne's specimens (Linn. Corr. 

 i. 43), and if corroboration be ^\•anted,in the Linnean library there 

 is a copy of Browne's 'History of Jamaica' with the Linnean 

 trivial names written in the margin by Linne himself. Other 

 auianuenses were Olof Soderberg, (iabriel Elmgren, J. P. Falk, Pehr 

 Lbfliug, Erik Gustaf Lidbeck, Anders Dalil, and tlie younger Liiuic. 

 As to tlie first and second, lam unable to assert that their writing 

 is in the herbarium ; but when the writer is, so far as I am 

 concerned, uncertain, I have shown it by adding (m. am.) = manu 

 amanuensis. Tlie handwriting of the others is knowu, from some 



