C. A. M. LINDMAN, A LINNiEAN HERBARIUM. 7 



It should however be observed that instead of the name 

 of the species Linnaeus often writes a number referring to 

 the number in its genus in »Species plantarum» (usually ed. 

 1, 1753; occasionally an initial which refers to the new species 

 in Systema naturae, ed. 10, 1759). According to C. Hart- 

 man, 1 Linnaeus in his great herbarium wrote merely numbers 

 or ciphers but not names on sheets which may be considered 

 as duplicates and which lie next to a sheet on which the 

 name is written. Occasionally a cipher is found in pencil; 

 thereby Linna>us (according to Hartman p. 9) meant to de- 

 signate merely the number of the plant within its genus in 

 the plant-case. As no genus is given and the species is only 

 designated with a cipher, it is hard to identify the plant, if 

 the specimen is in any way defective. In many cases how- 

 ever the generic name is also written in a large hand on 

 the top of the sheet, sometimes in Linnaeus's handwriting, 

 sometimes in that of his son. The name and number of the 

 species on the other hand is often written by Linnaeus with 

 very small often overlooked signs. The name is written on the 

 sheet itself. Only in his younger days, to judge by the hand- 

 writing, did Linnaeus write the names on labels with a 

 border printed in a pretty decorative rococo pattern. Specimens 

 from that time moreover have often the picture of a vase 

 or an urn pasted under them. Even among Dahl's plants 

 there are many to be found which show that the father and 

 son not seldom collaborated, for plants with the designation 

 »Dahl a Linné P.» sometimes have a species name written 

 in the handwriting of the son, and vice versa. (The hand- 

 writing of Linné fil. is somewhat larger and more legible, 

 but less neat and pleasing than the father's). Linnaeus has 

 often added other signs, e. g. K (Kalm), L (Löfling), Monsp. 

 (Montpellier), H. V. (Hortus Upsaliensis), Lapp. S. (Lapponia, 

 Solander), India. Algir(!)etc. etc.- On the back of the sheet 

 Linnaeus not unfrequently wrote a longer designation, usually 

 a symonym from Caspar Bauhin or others. But a number 

 of plants which were evidently owned by Linnaeus are quite 

 undetermined and have indeed never received names from 

 him, as they are wanting in his writings, and were first 

 described by Vahl, Willdenovv, Lamarck, and others. 



1 Anteckningar vid de Skandinaviska växterna i Linne's herbarhiii 

 K. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1849, p. 10. 



■ Cfr Hartman, loc. rit., p. 10, 11. 



