14 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAND 7. N:0 3. 



Cape 1774, 1775, Ceylon, Japan, Uppsala 1782, etc); Torén 

 (India 1752). 



B. Foreigners: Banks (plants from Hudson, Labra- 

 dor; Masson, Jamaica; Russel, Aleppo; Pallas, Siberia; 

 Bartram, Georgia; H. de Ponthien, South America; Aublet; 

 Ryan; Solander, and others); Fabricius (Kiel 1779 — 1788); 

 Forskåhl (through Vahl); Forster (Terra del Fuego, New 

 Zealand 1779); Gmelin (through Leche); Gray, E. (Portugal); 

 Harmens (London); König (through Banks, Retzius, Vahl, 

 and others); Lightfoot (1778); Quer (Spain); v. Royen 

 (Spain); Sauvages (Montpellier); Turra (Egypt.); Vahl 

 (Greenland 1781, Spain 1784, Hort. Hafn., and Forskahl's and 

 König's collections); Wiborg, »lector Hafniensis»; Wright 

 (Jamaica 1778). 



Solander's herbarium. 



In the oldest collections of plants of the State Natural 

 History Museum a large number of well preserved plants are 

 to be found pasted on very thin but tough and firm paper. 

 On a number of these sheets has been written (in Casström's 

 handwriting) at a later period »Ex Herb, beati D. Solanderi», 

 and the director of the botanical collections J. E. Wikström 

 has written on a large number of sheets »Herb. Solandri». 

 All these plants are (apart from the quality of the paper) 

 easily recognizable through the fact that the name of the 

 genus is written in small elegant capitals on the margin at 

 the top and the name of the species in the margin at the 

 bottom, both on the front side; on the back is written in 

 an even free and beatiful hand the diagnosis and number 

 etc. in the Species plantarum ed. 1. A number of these 

 sheets carry besides a local designation »Piteå», (Solander's 

 native town), others »Tornoa» (Torneå), which makes it pro- 

 bable that they were collected by Solander, who in 1756 

 made a botanical journey through Pito Lappmark and the 

 adjacent parts of Norway etc. 1 I the year 1760 Solander left 



' An argument in favour of these plants having been Solander's is 

 thai Oentiana aurea L. Sp. pi. ed. 2, p. 331, nr 12, is to be found in the 

 collection (syn. Gentiana involucrata Rottb.). Linnams says in this passage 

 in Sp. pi. ed. 2, that the species grows *in Alpibus Lapponiae Norvegica 1 , 

 D. C. Solander ; and on the sheet of the specimen in question is written 

 in the same handwriting as is here presumed to be Solander's: »Tagen vid 

 Rörstads Prästebord i Norrige ; på hårdvall' (collected near Rörstad's 

 parsonage in Norway; on a dry pasture ). 



