32 INDEX TO THE LINNEAN nERBAniUM. 



lIlSTORT OF THE NAME LiX.WEA. 



Examples of tlie use of the generic name Linno'a by Linnaeus 

 himself several years before it was published in his 

 ' Genera.' 



I. 



' Spolia botanica,' a MS. written in 1729 ; on the first j^age 

 " liiiuuea" has been written, but partially erased, and liis 

 patron's name, " Iludbeckia," substituted. 



Originally published by Dr. 3^1 Ahrling, but indepen- 

 dently discovered again some years afterwards. 



II. MS. 'Iter lapponicum'; record of 29th May, 1732, o. s. 

 f = 9th June, n. s., when specimens were gathered at 

 Tugganforsen]. Published by Sir J. E. Smith (1811), 

 Dr. Ahrling (1889), and Prof. T. M. Fries (1913). 



III, ' Genera plaiitarum ' ; p, 188 (1737) nominally by J. F. 



Gronovius, but drawn up in Linnseus's style, and not that 

 of Gronovius. 



IV. Bloclc from a pliotograph of the actual specimen given by 



Linnaeus to Gronovius, to justify the i)uhlication ; from 

 ProF. T. M, Fries ; the original specimen is in the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum (Natural History). 



