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Collateral Type-collections. 



There are otlier coUectious whicli may be looked upon as 

 contaiiiiug types of Linne's species, especially when his own 

 herbarium is wanting in them, or they were acquired alter the 

 descriptions were published. The Martin-Burser herbarium at 

 Uppsala is a case in point ; in the Am. Acad. i. pp. 141-171 will 

 be found descriptions of 250 plants, with Liiuiean names to tit 

 those according to Caspar Bauliin's ' Pinax,' ;ind several of them 

 seem never to have been represented in Linne's herbarium at any 

 tiuie, such as Poa Erafjrostis, Anilwxanthum 2}(inicidatum, Allium 

 splufrocephalum, Senecio incanus and (Enanthe crocata. Clifford's 

 herbarium is now at the British Museum, having been bought by 

 Banks, and is valued, as showing the originals of Linne's descrip- 

 tions in his ' Hortus Cliffortianus.' Then, too, it is certain that 

 he described many species of Lichen in the broad sense, from the 

 Dillenian herbarium at Oxford. In the preface to the 'Species 

 Plantarum,' ed. 2, we find him specifying the gardens which he 

 has gone through : Paris, Oxford, Chelsea, Hartecamp, Leyden, 

 Utrecht, Amsterdam, Uppsala and others. From these he may 

 have had a good supply of specimens, but very few of the list 

 of herbaria following could have afibrded so liberal a supply; 

 Burser, Herman, Clifford, Burman, Oldenland (in Burman's 

 possession), Grouovius, Roijen, Sloane, Sherard, Bobart, Miller, 

 Tournefort, Vaillant, Jussieu, Surian (St. Domingo plants in 

 Jussieu's herbarium), Back, and Browne. Anything in these 

 of special note must almost certainly have been described from 

 those specimens. 



In the year 1760 the younger Burman visited Linne at Uppsala, 

 bringing with him his father's large collection of Cape plants, in 

 wliich department the Dutch Avere supreme; many amongst these 

 ivere new to science, and formed the types of such as were 

 described by Linuc on this occasion. 



Bibliography. 



In the following bibliography I have given my authorities for 

 the statements made above with regard to the Linnean herbarium ; 

 its growth, aud subsequent history. Although I have arranged 

 the titles of the various theses according to the dates when they 

 were sustained, yet for the sake of convenience in citation I have 

 confined my references to Schreber's edition of the ' Amoenitates 

 Academicse,' Erlangae, 1787-90, 10 vols. 8vo. I have not cited 

 the 'Flora Suecica,' ed. 2, Stockholm 1755, throughout, for 

 although I extracted nearly 30 additional names, I cannot assert 

 that plants were sent to Linne as vouchers, or to add to his 

 collection. 



1745. Plantar Martino-Bursei'ianae ; j-fsp. li. Martin. (Am. Acad. 



i. 141-171.) 

 Hortus Upsaliei7sis, resp. S. Naucler. (Am. Acad. i. 197, 



198.) 



