Draft for a third decade of plants from the Uppsala botanical garden, with plant descriptions and 4 drawings that were never published.
f. 1r: full title page: 'CAROLI VON LINNE Fil. | Med. & Botan: PROFESSOR Upsal | DECAS TERTIA | PLANTARUM RARIORUM | HORTI UPSALIENSIS | sistens | DESCRIPTIONES & FIGURAS | PLANTARUM MINUS COGNITARUM'
f. 1v: list of plant species that Linnaeus fil. aims to describe. None of these species were published in the 1767 'Plantarum rariorum horti Upsaliensis'.
"Matricaria glastifolia"
"Dolichos pubescens"
"Delphinium aconiticum"
"Tragopogon villosum"
"Euphorbia retusa", renamed "Euphorbia terracina"
"Cucurbita ovifera"
"Physalis peruviana"
"Avena sterilis"
"Volkameria inermis"
"Lonicera tatarica"
All these species are given detailed descriptions, except "Lonicera tatarica".
f. 4: sheet entitled 'Decas quarta' in faint ink.
Other species described with but not listed by Linnaeus fil. on f. 1v: ff. 5-8: "Knautia propentica"; f. 23: "Dianthus pomeridianus".
Preface on f. 2.
Description and pencil drawing of "Knautia propentica" on ff. 5 and 6 are held together with a pin.
Other drawings: "Tragopogon villosum" (f. 13, pencil and ink), "Euphorbia retusa" (f. 14, pencil, probably an earlier drawing, as shown by a note in Linnaeus pater's hand indicating 'EUPHORBIA retusa H.U. 1761'), "Physalis peruviana" (f. 20, pencil and ink).