FRIES' HERBARIUM 



It is an inaccuracy to speak of Fries' herbarium. He made no 

 herbarium. Such plants as are found in his collection appear to me 



THE BOTANICAL MUSEUM AT UPSALA. 



to be more the result of accident than design. Fries was not a museum- 

 botanist; his studies were made in the fields and woods, and there 

 the plants grew and grow that he described. In the woods of Sweden 

 only are to be found the "types" of Fries. Practically all the plants 

 to be found in Fries' herbarium, of his own collection (and they are 

 very few) were left from his early days at Femsjo. After he went to 



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