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Mr. Kippist, tlie then Librarian, what the sign (Xo. 4) meant» 

 and he owned that he did not know, nor did anyone else. 



The latest guess was that made a few years ago by Pastor 

 Enander ; his view is: — that they are certainly Russian letters, 

 and thus may be regarded as pointing to J. P. Palck, born in 

 Westgotland in the year 17^52 or 1733, professor at the Medical 

 College in St. Petersburg, with whom Linne stood in close relation 

 (Salices, p. 11). Now although the sign No. 4 may be taken as the 

 (xreek 9, it cannot stand for ^, and No. 1 resembles no current 

 Russian letter whatever. Thisspeculation therefore does not help us. 



This tantalizing uncertainty therefore was a subsidiary point 

 that 1 set myself on beginning my investigation of the herbarium 

 to iind out, where possible, what these puzzling memoi*anda 

 meant. I therefore copied them each time they occurred, and 

 at the end, I had lists of plants bearing the cryptic signs. By 

 comparison of the whole material thus obtained, I was able to set 

 out the meaning of most of the signs occurring, thus : — 



No. 1. Collected by Gerber, principally in the district of the 

 river Don or Astrachan. 



No. 2. Prom Siberia, communicated by Gmelin. 



No. 3. From Kamtschatka, collected by Steller. 



No. 4. Hasselquist's plants, as also No. G. 



No. 5. Almost certainly Osbeck ; see No. 9. 



No. 6. Hasselquist, the sign appears to be derived from " Habitat 

 iu Oriente." I have tried to discover if there was any 

 reason why two signs for one collector were employed, 

 but so far fruitlessly. 



No. 7. Unknown ; applied to Bellis annua and an unnamed 

 specimen of Conferva. 



No. 8 is used as meaning " aristate," and 



No. 9 for " muticous," but the terms seem sometimes loosely 

 applied, and in one case misapplied ; the latter sign is 

 also confused with Osbeck, and with © for annual. 



No. 10. May be a long S, and stand for "suecia"; a cross- 

 stroke is sometimes present ; Linnc often used a small 

 initial, as Stockholm. 



No. 11. Occurs in relation to Anthericum calyculatum, Ornitho- 

 (jalum minimum, Salix rosmarinifoUa, and Sisi/mhrium 

 altissiimim. With regard to the third, Enander prints 

 the sign as ]) , which means silver to the mineralogist, 

 and may refer to a silvery appearance of the specimen. 



Numbers employed. 



The system of numbering adopted by Linne must be mentioned. 

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

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

 original edition of the ' Species Piantarum ' in 1 753 ; additional 

 species were lettered in capitals and intercalated in their appropriate 



