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öfversikt af Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar 1861 X:o 6 

 p. 255). Professor C. Lindman, who has seen it, had had the 

 kindness to give me a sketch and a description of this Lin- 

 nean Draba. The specimen is incomplete but the long pe- 

 dicels and the covering of only stellulate hairs of the leaves 

 are sufficiently marked characteristics. Linnjeus called it: 

 »Draba caide ramoso folioso, joliis dentatis,» and referred it 

 thus to Draba incana L. 



2. Draba hirta L. 



As D. magellanica is thus not the Draba hiria of Lin- 

 N^us, one might be tempted to conclude it to be some gla- 

 brous form of Draba rupestris R. Br. — Lindblom, (11. c. c). 

 But this plant is not his D. hirta either. The t3'pe specimen, 

 which I have had the opportunity of seeing in the herbarium 

 of LiNN.EUs in the Linnean Society in London, corresponds 

 completely with the diagnosis and description 1. 1. c. c, the 

 word »hirta» being interpreted to mean: »hair}^ with simple 

 hairs». As far as I could see, the hairs were only cilia of 

 about one mm. in length. The rather robust stem had 

 only one leaf under the lowest pedicel. The pods are about 

 12 mm. long on shorter somewhat patulous pedicels. 

 Under the plant or rather the two plants — for at the right 

 of D. hirta there is another plant which is no Draba but 

 a Braya alpina Sterne . et Hoppe — Linnaeus has written in 

 his own hand »hirta» and the locality »Lapp.» On the other 

 side of the sheet of paper he has afterwards noted: »Carda- 

 mine foliis obtiisis sessilibus ad radicem in rosidam dispositis, 

 siliquis brevibus Gmel.» The quotation is from the Flora 

 Sibirica of Gmel. tom. Ill 1763 p. 272, where the plant also 

 is represented fig. 66 n:o 3. The plant of Gmelin is no 

 doubt a Draba and resembles the D. hirta but it is not the 

 same plant. This is probably the meaning of the word »r/.r>> 

 which Smith has written in pencil under Linnjeus' quotation. 



I have in vain sought amongst Scandinavian Drabce in 

 the collections for a plant corresponding with the Linnaean 

 D. hirta. Xeither have I found one in nature. Among non- 

 Scandinavian Drabae it corresponds pretty closely with the 



