24 IXUEX TO THE 



No. 12. p. J. Bladh's plants. 



No. 13. Cristate, e.g. Erica cordifolia ; cf. Nos. b & 'J. 



NUMBKIIS EMPLOYED. 



The system of numbering adopted by Linne must be mentioned. 

 Tlie numbers found in the herbarium, either alone, or in asso- 

 ciation witli a specific name, refer to the numbers given in the 

 original edition of the 'Species Plantarum ' in 175li; additional 

 species were lettered in capitals and intercalated in their appro- 

 priate place : thus llechjsarum in the lOtli edition of the ' Systema' 

 has no fewer than twelve, a to L inclusive. In the second edition 

 of the ' Species' 17G2-3, an entirely new numbering was carried 

 througli, and in the 12th edition of the ' Systema' 1767, additions 

 were numbered in sequence with the ' Species' numbers, but put 

 into their affinity, regardless of numerical order ; this emended 

 set was not applied to the herbarium. After this date, such 

 numbers were abandoned. Numbers are also found referring to 

 lists sent with plants, the ' Plora lappouica,' etc. 



Damage to IIbebaeium liEroEE 1783. 



The herbarium suffered risks and actual damage before it came 

 into the hands of Smith in 1784. We have au account by 

 Beckmanu, the author of the ' Century of Inventions,' that on 

 30tli April, 1766, a fire broke out in Uppsala during a fierce 

 gale and destroyed a large part of the town. Linne had his 

 lierbarium and library removed to a barn outside the town, but 

 the risk to which it was exposed led him to build his little 

 museum at Hammarby, some distance from the house, and 

 without a fireplace. This in its turn produced the opposite evils 

 of damp and mould ; the younger Linne complained of the 

 terrible damage done by mice, mould and insects, and at the first 

 opportunity, he removed tlie collections once more into the town. 

 Linne left a memoranda begging that the herbarium should be 

 kept from harm by mice or moths, that no naturalists should have 

 a single specimen — valuable by itself, it would acquire added 

 value by age, and he then gave the probable value of the various 

 parts oF his collections. But a loss had already taken place 

 before the death of its possessor; the son in a letter of 1779 to 

 Archiater Bilck, says : — '' My late father weeded out his herba- 

 rium, while he was able to work, and seems to have burned all the 

 duplicates, why, no one knows'' (Fries, Linne, ii. p. 416, note). 

 Tlie terrible damage by mice is not now perceptible, for I only 

 noticed two sheets which had been gnawed besides three of the 

 undetermined ; the son must have withdrawn the damaged sheets, 

 and amongst these may have been those I have had to note as 

 missing, such as Cuj^ania and Sarracenia. 



