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genus Linnaea by diagnosis, synonyms and illustration. Gronovius 

 is merely the pretended inventor of the name. 



II. Linnaeus wrote in his folio work Hortus Cligortiamus, oi 

 which in August 1737 already 400 pages were printed (see Corresp. 

 of Linn, ii 270 ; 0. Ktze. Rev. gen. pi. p. cxxxiv) and which work 

 is quoted as far back as early in 1737 as manuscript by Linnaeus 

 himself in his Genera Plantarum : 



II". in the introduction, Classis v, No. 60 : "Siegesbeck. Fo. 

 Georg, Majanthemum, Lilium convallium affinis. Petropoli 1736, 

 4to, p. 15." Linnaeus acknowledges thereby to have been in 

 receipt of one 'of the 2 different papers of Siegesbeck published in 

 1736. And he should not have received the other one ? 



IP. pag. 320. " Linnaea gen. pi. 523 ..." (among the 

 synonyms :) "... Obularia . . . Sieg. hort. . . ." (and at the end of 

 the description :) " . . . Obularia nobis longe diversissima est planta." 



II C - pag. 323. " Obularia ..." 



II J . pag. 412. " Sigesbeckia g. pi. 882 ..." (synonyma, de- 

 scriptio) " Dixi plantam in honorem Fo. Georgii Siegesbeck, in 

 Horto Medico Petropolitano Botanices Professoris, qui quanto ardore 

 Floram Ruthenicam prosequitur ostendit abunde Catalo^us HorH 

 Petropolitani:* The full title of that work of Siegesbeck quoted 

 here by Linnaeus is: " Primitiae Florae Petropolitanae, sivc dialo- 

 gue plantarum tarn indigenarum quam exoticarum, quibus instructus 

 uedicus Petriburgensis praesenti anno 1736. Rigae 1736." 



III. Amman did not send that book in question (Siegesbeck, 

 Cat. hort. petr.) to Linnaeus in January 1738, as Mr. Jackson 

 wrote wrongly. The book sent by Amman in January 1738 

 at the request of Linnaeus was " the critical dissertation of the 

 works of Linnaeus he had hitherto published" of which Amman 

 gave notice him in his letter of 15th of November 1737 (see 

 Corresp. of Linn, ii 195, 196). The correct title is: Epicrisis 

 systematU Linnaei which ia attached to Siegesbeck' s Botanosophiae 

 . . . 1737. 



IV. Linnaeus denied still in a letter to Haller of Sept. 1789 to 

 have ever seen the Primitiae Florae Petr. of Siegesbeck (I. e. ii 

 338). Notwithstanding Mr. Jackson thinks that Linnaeus had got 

 it in January 1738. On the other hand Amman's letter to 

 Linnaeus shows that Linnaeus did not inquire after that book 

 published in 1736, although it would have been a most easy matter 

 for him to obtain with the other shipment in 1738 the book which 

 he pretended not to have seen at all. 



V. Linnaeus' denying to have seen the Primitiae . . . = Cata- 

 logus ... of Siegesbeck (I. c. 300 and 338) is also in contradiction 

 with his own previous quotation of the said work in his Horttu 

 GiifforUanm written late in 1736 or early in 1737 (see above IF-). 



VI. Even if Linnaeus should not have seen that work in 

 question he knew the name Obolaria Sieg. (perhaps from labels of 

 plants forwarded by Siegesbeck to Cliff ort's garden, as is it men- 

 tioned on the second page of the preface of his Horttu Clifortianm) 

 for Linnaeus expressly quotes Obolaria Sieg. to his Linnaea in the 

 same time (see II ). 



