12 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAND 7. NIO 3. 



Montin is however most eloquent in his professions of friend- 

 ship in connection with Löfling's name. He kept up a very 

 lively correspondence with the latter during the few years 

 (1751 — 1753) he spent in Spain. In a letter to Montin Löf- 

 ling mentioned the »order of rank» in which he arranged his 

 Spanish plants, viz. 1) Löfling, 2) Linnaeus, 3) Montin, 4) 

 Gyllenborg, 5) Bäck, 6) Kalm, 7) Holm, 8) Liidbeck, 9) Wahl- 

 bom. 3 Löfling who was an uncommonly lovable young man 

 and a faithful friend, writes to Montin in terms of great 

 warmth and heartiness of affection. May the Lord our God 

 bless you with a joyful new year. May he let you this year 

 reap the fruit your industry and toil has earned.» Montin 

 on the other hand in the case of every plant which Löfling 

 has sent mentions his friend with much circumstance and a 

 great variety of different formulae, e. g. »Plantam hanc misit 

 D:nus P. Löfling, S:ae Cathol. Maj. Botanicus clarissimus, ut 

 collectanea mea örnaret»; »Specimen ad Madritum lectum 

 misit B. M. D:nus P. Loefling, S:ae Cathol. Maj:s Botanicus 

 olim indefessus» etc. In the case of Loeflingia hispanica 

 Montin writes : »Habitat in Hispaniae collibus apricis, Specimen 

 indeque misit S:ae Cathol. Maj:tis Botanicus Celeb, dum 

 vixit D:nus Petrus Loefling, quod in signum intimae et infu- 

 catae inter nos amicitiae suique dignissimam commemorationem 

 a me sancte servari voluit, praesertim quum ejus nomen novo 

 huic generi imposuit Nob. Suecorum Professor, Archiater et 

 Eques de Stella polari D:nus Carolus a Linné, ut posteritati 

 notum faceret, quantum periculosis itineribus, longis pere- 

 grinationibus et indefesso labore de Republica literaria, im- 

 primis Scientiae Naturalis cultoribus promeruit noster Loef- 

 ling.» To this Montin has added a very long and circum- 

 stantial biography of Löfling. 



A great number of plants in the Herb. Montin (several 

 hundreds) come from the Hortus Upsaliensis and almost all 

 of these are stated to have been sent by the »hortulanus 

 Nietzel»,who was employed at Upsala botanical garden from 

 1739 to 1756, accordingly during Linnseus's lifetime; a few of 

 these however have been sent from the garden by Linnaeus, 

 some also by Linnaeus's pupils, e. g. Lind wall (they must 



1 In the same way be stales the order of rank in which he arranges 

 liis stones (minerals) viz. 1) Grefve Tessin, 2) Gr. Gyllenborg, 3) Löfling,. 

 4) Linnaeus, 5) Du (You, i. e. Montin) . 



