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LINK, KLOTZSCH AND OTTO’S “ICONES PLANTARUM HORTI 
REGII BOTANICII BEROLINENSIS ” 
By William T. Stearn. 
(Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society, Westminster.) 
The example set by Cari Ludwig Willdenow in publishing coloured plates, with 
descriptions, of new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Garden 
was followed by his successor Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851), with the 
help of C. Friedrich Otto (1783-1856), the curator of the garden, and J. Friedrich 
Klotzsch (1805-1860), keeper of the herbarium, in three easily-confused quarto 
works:—Link and Otto, Icon. Pl. select. Hort. Berol. (1820-29); Link and Otto, 
Icm. Pl. rar. Hort. Berol. (1828-31); Link, Klotzsch and Otto, Icon. Pl. rar. 
Hort. Berol. (1840-44). 
Like Willdenow’s Hortus Berolinensis* these were issued in parts at Berlin 
over a nuinber of years; their dates and contents as revealed by original 
wrappers and contemporary references and reviews are given below :— 
Icones plantarum selectarum horti Regii botanici Berolinensis. Abbil- 
dungen auserlesener Gewachse des Koniglichen botanischen Gartens zu Berlin 
. . . von H. F. Link und F. Otto. 
Contents. 
Date. 
Contemporary References. 
Heft 1 
pp. 1-16, pls. 1-6 
1820 
Hinrichs, Verz. Juli-Dec. 1820, 
p. 1. 
Flora 4,1 (8), 119-21 (Feb. 1821); 
Hinrichs, Verz. Jan.-Juni 1821, 
p. 1. 
Hinrichs, Verz. Jan —Juni 1821, 
p. 1; Flora 4, II (29), 459 
(Aug. 1821), II (38), 603-4 
(Oct. 1821); Fort, allrj. Teut. 
Oart. May., 6 (1), 37 (1822). 
„ 2 
„ 3 
„ 17-32, „ 7-12 
„ 33-44, „ 13-18 
1820 (Dec.), 
orl821 (Jan.) 
1821 
,, 4 
„ 45-56, „ 19-24 
1821 (late), 
or 1822 (early) 
Flora 5,1(15), 225-6 (Apr. 1822); 
Hinrichs, Verz. Jan.-J uni 
1822, p. 1. 
„ 5 
„ 57-68, „ 25-30 
1822 
Hinrichs, Verz. Juli-Dec. 1822, 
p. 1; Flora, 6, I (9), 137-9 
(Mar. 1823). 
,, 6 
„ 7 
„ 8 
„ 9 
„ io 
„ 69-80, „ 31—36I 
„ 81-92, „ 37-42/ 
„ 93-104, „ 43-48 
„ 105-116, „ 49-54 
„ 117-128, „ 55-60 
1825 
1826 
1826 f 
1828 (Dec.), 
or 1829 (Jan.) 
Hinrichs, Verz. Juli-Dec. 1825, 
p. 1; Flora, 9, I (31), 494-6 
(Aug. 1826); Linnaea, 1 (1), 
116 (1826). 
Linnaea, 1 (3), 475-6 (1826). 
Flora, 12, I (8), 124 (Feb. 1829); 
Hinrichs, Verz. Jan.-Juni 
1829, p. 108. 
* For dates of publication of Willdenow’s Hortus Berolinensis (folio; 2 vols.; Berlin; 
1803-1816) and a short biography of Willdenow, see Stearn, 1937, J. Bot. 75 : 233-235. 
f Aocording to original wrapper, but possibly issued later. 
J. SOC. BIBL. NAT. HIST. VOL. 1. PT. 4. DEC. 1937. 
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