Description:
14 lists of plants, all undated:
- Quarto sheets folded lengthwise and bound to form a thin booklet, with an unknown handwriting in Swedish, a numbered list of plant species in yet another hand, a list of plant species in Linnaeus fil.'s hand and a pencil drawing of a flower.
- Small slip entitled 'Obs' and describing the genera "Carduus" and "Centaurea". Swedish and Latin.
- Small slip beginning '12 Sinapis' with list of plant species. Latin.
- Folio sheet cut lengthwise, with two parallel lists comparing new species names from Johann Georg Adam Forster and Sir Joseph Banks. Possibly from Linnaeus fil.'s London stay in 1781-1782. Latin.
- List of plant species starting with 'Valeriana rad.' With some medical instructions. Latin.
- Folio sheet folded lengthwise with list of plant species, starting 'Piper longum'. Many of the names preceded by a cross. Latin.
- Slip with crossed out lists of plant names, sums, and an (earlier) annotation 'Nobis hoc erit factum | Historia Mundi'. Latin.
- Slip with list of plant names, starting 'Nycthantes samb.' Latin. On the reverse, a note written in Swedish regarding Linnaeus fil.'s receipt of Carl Peter Thunberg's thesis (so post June 1767).
- Folio sheet cut lengthwise, with numbered list of plant species, stating with 'Holcus serratus'. Latin.
- Slip with list of plant names, starting with 'Petacetis'. Some of the genera names have been ticked. Early hand. Latin.
- Slip with list of species names, starting 'Veronica saxatilis' and references to contemporary botanical literature, the latest of which is the 1776 "Acta Holmensis" (or "Kungliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar"). Many names crossed out. Latin.
- Slip with list of 6 botanical reference works, starting with 'Millers Lexicon de Lavandula'.
- Ripped folio sheet folded lengthwise, with list of species names, starting with 'Allium inordorum'. Arvid H. Uggla identified this sheet as dating from Linnaeus fil.'s London stay in 1781-1782.
- Quarto sheet folded lengthwise, with list of species names entitled 'Mr Aiton', probably dating from Linnaeus fil.'s London stay 1781-1782. William Aiton (1731-1793) was curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Title:
Various plant lists
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1741-1783