Description:
Plants of Switzerland arranged according to the sexual system and using binomial nomenclature.
In Linnaeus's handwriting.
On the front page, a list of botanists, who have collected plants in Switzerland.
On the reverse, a few lines about the climate and its influence on the flora.
Numbers refer to the pages in Haller's "Enumeratio methodica stirpium Helvetica indigenarum", 1742.
Linnaeus also added his binomials onto his copy of Haller's "Enumeratio...".
At the bottom of p. 14: '196 chara' [?]. The same kind of annotation can be found in 'Flora Carniolica', LM/LP/BOT/1/25.
Probably dating to end of 1753, beginning of 1754, as on 10 January 1754, Linnaeus wrote to Jean-Baptiste Aymen, reporting on his work in compiling lists of plants from various regions, amongst which Switzerland.
Carl Linnaeus to Jean-Bapstiste Aymen, 10 January 1754, The Linnaean correspondence, linnaeus.c18.net, letter L1703.
Title:
'Flora Helvetica'
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1707-1778