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or other docketing in his own hand; secondly of such plants 

 as others received from Linnaeus, in the majority of cases of 

 quite certain authenticity, and often with a reference by 

 the recipient to one of Linnseus's phytographic works, finally 

 of such as were distributed from »Hortus Upsaliensis», either 

 by Linnaeus himself or by the gardeners there. It hardly 

 requires to be pointed out, that the plants distributed from 

 »Hortus Upsaliensis», where they grew up under Linnseus's 

 immediate superintendence and classified by him, may have 

 just the same importance as his herbarium specimens, when 

 it is a question of deciding what he meant by a name or a 

 description, and besides these plants thus cultivated possess 

 a special interest of their own as a contribution to the history 

 of that garden which was so famous in Linnseus's lifetime. 



The herbaria, by which the Linnsean plants now in question 

 found their way to the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stock- 

 holm (formerly K. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Naturaliesamling), 

 are as follows: 



The herbarium of Carl von Linné fil. 



Linnseus's son Carl at the early age of 18 was appointed 

 demonstrator in the botanical garden of Uppsala (1759). 

 and in 1763 as his father's substitute with the promise of 

 being appointed his successor. During his father's last long 

 illness which incapacitated him for his office, his son was 

 installed as professor in 1777. Although his father expressly 

 states that his son did not shew any predilection for botany 

 and did not help him in the collection and care of the great 

 herbarium, it is nevertheless clear that the son in the dis- 

 charge of his duties must have collected and preserved a 

 certain number of plants out of the garden and assisted his 

 father in labelling them etc., and that father and son actu- 

 ally did work together to some extent, is shewn by the fact 

 that a great number of plants are found labelled by them 

 both and many plants which were given as presents by the 

 father are furnished with names in the handwriting of the 

 son, and vice versa. 



Linné fil. also possessed a herbarium of his own, though 

 rather a small one, when in 1778 he became the owner of 

 the father's great herbarium. This fact is mentioned in a 



