190 Herbaria, Gardens and Botanists of Upsal, &c. 
one set is glued down, after the pattern of Thunberg’s, and the 
remainder, often many duplicates, are loose in sheets of a larger 
size. The specimens are generally good, and many of them ac- 
companied by fruits in a separate collection, but with references 
to the specimens. 
The living collection in the Botanical Garden, though not 
kept in such good order as could be wished, is tolerably rich. 
The Russian species, received through the Petersburg garden, 
flourish well here; other exotics are such as could be obtained 
through Booth, of Flottbeck, and some interesting plants are the 
ndants of those cultivated by Linneus, and thus constitute 
the only authentic specimens of such as he did not dry for his 
herbarium. We went with Prof. Fries to see the house in which 
Linnzus lived, and the garden where he cultivated his ‘ Hort. 
Upsal.’ plants, now no longer belonging to the family, but in 
which the buildings used by this great father of modern botany 
as green-houses and lecture-room, still exist; and a poplar tree, 
known to have been planted by his own hands, is shown with 
great reverence. Proud though we may be in England of pos- 
sessing his collections, it is impossible to be at Upsala, where so 
much is associated with his name, to see the respect paid to his 
memory, and the value attached to the few manuscripts or other 
remembrances of him which they have been able to amass, with- 
out feeling that this is the place where his library and herbarium 
ought to be, and that if they had been here the botanical world 
would long since have known what information can or cannot be 
derived from the specimens preserved ; and asa tribute to his ex- 
traordinary genius, such of his manuscripts as are really interest- 
ing or curious, (and they are not a few,) would have been given 
to the public, instead of lying unknown in the attics of our Lin- 
neean Society. 
Prof. Fries is devoting himself, with his usual zeal, to the in- 
vestigation of the Scandinavian Flora, (that of the Scandinavian 
Peninsula from Petersburg to the North sea,) and has been spe- 
cially studying Hieractum, Salix, and Carex. 'The general re- 
sult of his observations has lately appeared under the title of 
“Summa Plantarum Scandinavia,” being an enumeration of 
the flora of the country, with geographical indications of each 
species, and detailed characters for such as are not in Koch’s 
Synopsis, or are differently characterized by Fries. It appears to 
be a useful work, more especially asa kind of resumé of the 
conclusions drawn by Fries from a long and careful study of 
many difficult species.—({pp. 528-530. ) 
_ $t. Petersburg contains two great botanical collections, that 
of the Academy of Sciences, and that of the Botanical Garden. 
The herbarium of the Academy of Sciences is under the diree- 
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