360 THE RAREST TYPOGRAPHIC PRODUCT OF LINN^US. 



day not a single one has noticed — or at least has not published — 

 that in this epoch-making "Editio princeps" the leaf which is 

 numbered pages 89-90 is, in each specimen, pasted in afterwards. 



What was it that induced Linnanis to intercalate this leaf? 

 What was the text of these suppressed pages ? 



Quite unexpectedly I obtained possession of a copy of the first 

 edition of the Spi'cies fhtntarum in which this leaf, intended to be 

 cancelled, occurred in the place of the customary one. 



Without question this leaf is Liun^eus's rarest printed product, 

 and in this aspect it ranks above his anonymous apology Oihis 

 eruditi Judicium, because the latter work was not condemned to 

 suppression. . . . Literature has no acknowledgement of these two 

 pages of the Species Pluntanoii, and this has been the reason which 

 has moved me to publish these pages, intended to be suppressed, in 

 an accurate form.'-' 



The copy in my possession is still further noteworthy from the 

 fact of its entirely wanting pages 2G9-270, instead of which (at the 

 place where page 269 should begin " Cassine Hort. Cliff. 72," &c., 

 and end on page 270 " Sauv. Monsp. 45," including the genera 

 Cassine, Sambucus, Spatlielia, StupJujlea, and Tamarix with their 

 species) is another page with the pagination 89-90, but this con- 

 tains the emended text (by which completion should take place), 

 and without any pasting forms an integral part of the printed sheet. 

 It is thus evident that the printing of the work had already reached 

 pages 269-270, that is, as far as signature E, before pages were 

 substituted for those cancelled. It was at this point that tlie book- 

 binder became aware of the rectification that must be made, by 

 exchanging the cancelled pages for these. 



The facsimile reprint of the original cancelled pages offers 

 interest enough (cf. I. c). 



First of all we see that Linnaeus published a genus Guerezia 

 with two species, Lofliug's Guerezia hispanica and Gronovius's 

 Guerezia canadensis. That this genus was actually so called, admits 

 of no doubt, for the name is nowhere shortened, but is written at 

 full length in all three cases. In the table of contents, however, 

 this name does not occur, nor in any other of his works. 



What was the reason for the speedy suppression of this generic 

 name ? 



This is answered by the substituted leaf with pp. 89-90 (as also 

 in the contents table), where, instead of the remarkable Guerezia, 

 Queria is to be read, also with the two species mentioned above, 

 Qneria Idspanica and Queria canadensis. Lofling gave this generic 

 name in honour of Don Jose Quer y Martinez, a celebrated surgeon 

 in the Spanish army, who had botanized with him. 



As the genus Guerezia, except on this leaf, is nowhere to be 

 found in the botanical literature of the world, it has for that reason 

 an unusual historic interest. 



* I have been informed that this pasting in is very evident in the coines 

 which are in the Clausenburg University and Cardinal Haynald's hbrary in 

 Budapest : I have personally convinced njyself of that fact in the copy belonging 

 to the Budapest University. 



