Department of Phanerogamic Botany
Swedish Museum of Natural History (S)

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Linnean herbarium
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Historical Botanical collections

Department of Phanerogamic Botany

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Linnaeus made few notes on the herbarium sheets. Sometimes he wrote the name of the genera (e. g. Ptelea) with big letters on the top of the sheet, but in most cases he only wrote a number on the bottom of the sheet which indicated the number of the species in his "Species Plantarum". Sometimes he also wrote the species name (e. g. Avena spicata) but this is more often written by Linnaeus' son or some of the disciples Daniel Solander or Andreas Dahl.

Notes of the locality is rare on Linnean sheets. Sometimes he made small notes with symbols or abbreviations. Some of the most common are listed here. (If you click on the images you see the sheet from which the example originates.)

	Central Asia
	Western Asia. (Probably mostly specimens from baron Sten Carl Bjelke)
	Eastern Asia
	Kamchatka
	Hortus Upsaliensis, i.e. grown in the Botanical garden in Uppsala
	Lappland
	the Orient (or sometimes Osbeck)
	Caput Bonnae Spei, i. e. Cape Province, South Africa

	Patrick Brown
	Pehr Löfling
	Pehr Kalm
	Adriaan van Royen

Probably means that the stem is angular in section

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