Full title:
'Caroli Linnæi | M.S. | Fundamenta Botanica | in qvorum | Tom VIII | Differentiæ Specierum | part: poster. | Mens tamen ad Sylvas et sua lustra redit | Claudianus lib: 3 præfationis. | 1733'
This, along with volumes IV and VII, are bound notebooks, later rebound; dated 1731-1733. They were most probably the manuscripts Linnaeus brought with him to Holland.
Volume VIII is in fact an early version of Species plantarum.
A few pages were filled in by Linnaeus filius, so at a later date.
The contents are very similar to volume VII, but with long stretches of blank pages (pp. 225-245, pp. 246-274) and a few interspersed notes on other topics (e.g. on coffee plantations, p. 79). Towards the end (p. 334 ff.) descriptions of a few genera.
The same contractions to designate botanical gardens catalogues are used as were described at the beginning of volume VII. The author's name is indicated on each record, in the persons field, rather than the title of the catalogue:
HE - Hortus Edinburgensis = James Sutherland, Hortus medicus Edinburgensis, or, A catalogue of the plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh : containing their most proper Latin and English names; with an English alphabetical index (1683)
HC- Hortus Catolicus = Francesco Cupani, Hortus Catolicus seu' illustrissimi et excellentissimi principis Catholicae, ducis Misilmeres, comitis Uicaris, baronis Prizis (1696) (manuscript)
HR - Hortus Reg. Parisiensis = ?Denis Joncquet, Dionysii Ioncquet medici Parisiensis Hortus, sive Index onomasticus plantarum, quas excolebat Parisiis annis 1658. & 1659 (1659)
HB - Hermanni - Hortus Lugduno Batavus = Paul Hermann, Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus exhibens plantarum omnium nomina (1687)
HA - Commelini - Hortus Amstelodamensis = Caspari Commelini Horti Medici Amstelaedamensis plantarum usualium catalogus (1724)
HM - Rheedi - Hortus Malabaricus = Hendrik van Rheede,
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos celeberrimi omnis generis plantas rariores ... (1678)
AF - Aldini - Hortus Faresianus = P Castelli & T. Aldini, Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, Que continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano (1625)
AR - Academia Regia Parisina = Mémoires de L'Académie royale des sciences
M-B - Morisoni - Hortus regius = Robert Morison, Hortus regius Blesensis auctus (1669)
M-M - Magnol - Hortusl regius monspeliensis = Pierre Magnol, Hortus regius monspeliensis : sive Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto regio monspeliensi demonstrantur (1697)
B - Hermanni - Paradisus Batavus = Paul Hermann, Paradisus Batavus, continens plus centum plantas affabrè aere incisas et descriptionibus illustratas. Cui accessit Catalogus plantarum, quas pro tomis nondum editis, delineandas curaverat Paulus Hermannus. Opus posthumum (1698)
