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SOCIETAS PRO FAUNA ET FLORA FENNICA ACTA BOTANICA FENNICA 89 Pekka Isoviita: Dillenius's 'Historia muscorum' as the basis of hepatic nomenclature, and S. 0. Lindberg's collection of Dillenian bryophytes SOCIETAS p FAUNA BT J1LOltA FENNICA HELSINKI- HELSINGFORS 1970 ACTA BOTANICA FENNICA 1-19 vide Acta Botanica Fennica 20-50. 20-49 vide Acta Botanica Fennica 50- 82. 50. Hans Luther: Verbreitung und Ökologie der höheren Wasserpflanzen im Brack wasser der Ekenäs-Gegend in Südfinnland. II. Spezieller Teil. 370 S. (1951). 51. M. R. Droop: On the ecology of Flagellates from some brackish and fresh water rockpools of Finland. 52 pp. (1953). 52. Haus Luther: Über Vaucheria arrhyncha Heidinger und die Heterokonten-Ordnung Vaucheriales Bohlin. 24 S. (1953). 53. Erust Häyren: Wasser- und Uferpflanzen aus dem Päijänne-Gebiet. 42 S. (1954). 54. Lars Fagerström: Växtgeografiska studier i Strömfors-Pyttis skärgärd i östra Nyland med speciellt beaktande av lövängarna, artan talet samt en del arters för• delning och invandring. 296 s. (1954). 55. Haus Luther: Über Krustenbewuchs an Steinen fliessender Gewässer, speziell in Südfinnland. 61 S. (1954). 56. llmari Hustich: Notes on the growth of Scotch Pine in Utsjoki in northernmost Finland. 13 pp. (1956). 57. Henrik Skult: Skogsbotaniska studier i Skärgärdshavet med speciell hänsyn till förhällandena i Korpo utskär. 244 s. (1956). 58. Roll Grönblad, Gerald A. Prowse and Artbur M. Scott: Sudanese Desmids. 82 pp. (1958). 59. Max von Schantz: Über das ätherische Öl beim Kalmus, Acorus calamus L. Phar makognostische Untersuchung. 138 S. (1958). 60. Harald Lindberg: Växter, kända frän Norden, i Linnes herbarium. Plantae e septen trione cognitae in herbario Linnaei. 133 pp. (1958). 61. Alvar Palmgren: Studier över havsstrandens vegetation och flora pä Aland. I. Vegetationen. 268 s. (1961). 62. Haus Luther: Veränderungen in der Gefässpflanzenflora der Meeresfelsen von Tvär• minne. 100 S. (1961). 63. Roll Grönblad: Sudanese Desmids II. 19 pp. (1962). 64. Veikko Lappalainen: The shore-line displacement on southern Lake Saimaa. 125 pp. (1962). 65. J. J. Donner: The zoning of the Post-Glacial pollen diagrams in Finland and the main changes in the forest composition. 40 pp. (1963). 66. Roll Grönblad, Artbur M. Scott and Bannah Croasdale: Desmids from Uganda and Lake Victoria, collected by Dr. Edna M. Lind. 57 pp. (1964). 67. Carl Eric Sonck: Die Gefässpflanzenflora von Pielisjärvi und Lieksa, Nordkarelien 311 s. (1964). 68. F. W. Klingstedt: mber Farbenreaktionen von Flechten der Gattung Usnea. 23 S. (1965). 69. Artbur M. Scott, Rolf Grönblad and Bannah Croasdale: Desmids from the Amazon Basin, Brazil, collected by Dr. H. Sioli. 94 pp. (1965). 70. Teuvo Ahti: Parmelia olivacea and the allied non-isidiate and non-sorediate cor ticolous Iichens in the Northern Hemisphere. 68 pp. (1966). 71. Simo Juvonen: Über die die Terpenbiosynthese beeinflussenden Faktoren in Pinus silvestris L. 92 S. (1966). 72. Leena Hämet-Ahti: Some races of Juncus articulatw L. in Finland. 22 pp. (1966). 73. Max von Schantz und Simo Juvonen: Chemotaxonomische Untersuchungen in der Gattung Picea. 51 S. (1966). 74. Dkka Kytövuori and Juha Suominen: The flora of Ikkalanniemi (commune of Virrat, Central Finland), studied independently by two persons. 59 pp. (1967). 75. Leena Himet-Ahti: Tripleurospermum (Compositae) in the northern parts of Scandinavia, Finland and Russia. 19 pp. (1967). ACTA BOTA ICA FENNICA 89 EDIDIT SOCIETAS PRO FAUNA ET FLORA FEN ICA DILLENIUS 'S ' HISTORIA MUSCORUM' AS THE BASIS OF HEPATIC NOMENCLATURE, AND S. 0. LINDBERG'S COLLECTION OF DILLENIAN BRYOPHYTES BY PEKKA ISOVIITA BOTANICAL MUSEUM, UN IVERSITY OF HELSINKI HELSI KI-HELSI GFORS 1970 Acta Bot. Fennica 89. 28 pp. Nov. 1970 PR1NTED BY TlLG:uA.'-'N HELSINK1-HELSINGFORS 1970 Abstract The principles and different possibilities involved in the typification of Linnaeus's specific names of Hepaticae are discussed. Dillenius's 'Historia muscorum' appears to be the foremost source of Linnaeus's Hepaticae species, and thus Dillenius's herbarium of the 'Historia muscorum' usually forms the best basis for the typification of the names given to them by Linnaeus. Linnaeus's own material was fairly limited, and only a few names can be typified from his herbarium. The neglected collection of Dillenius's speci mens of Hepaticae in the herbarium of S. 0. Lindberg in Helsinki is presented, and a comprehensive !ist is given of specific names whose protologues contain a reference to a Dillenian species of Hepaticae. Same nomenclatural problems of Hepaticae are mentioned. Lindberg's collection of Dillenius's specimens of :\fusci is also presented. Contents I. Introduction II. Linnaeus's 'Species plantarum' as the starting point of the nomenclature of Hepaticae, and the importance of Dillenius's 'Historia muscorum' ......... 5 A. Linnaeus as a hepaticologist ................................... ... 5 B. Typification of Linnaeus's specific names of Hepaticae ... .... ... .. 6 1. The Linnaean Herbarium .. .. ........... .. ............. 0 •••••••• 6 2. Other Linnaean collections . .... .. .... ..... .... .. ...... 8 3. Typification through references: Micheli citations . .. .. .. 0 •••• 0 0 ••• • 9 4. Importance of the references to Dillenius's monograph ....... ...... 11 C. Importance of Dillenius's specimens for the typification of the Hepaticae described by other authors, and of other Cryptogamia ............... III. 'Hepaticae ex herbario Dillenii' of Lindberg, and a synopsis of the nomenclatural importance of Dillenius's specimens of Hepaticae o ••••••••••••••••••••• 0 • 15 IV. 'Musci veri ex herbario Dillenii' of Lindberg 0 0 •••••• • • o ••••• •• ••••••••••• • 24 V. Utilization of Lindberg's Dillenian collections .. .. o • •••• o • o •••••••••••••• 24 Sum.mary ..... ...... 0 • •••••••• • • •• ••••••••••••• • ••••• • •••••• 0 •••• 0 • • • 0 • •• 25 Acknowledgements . ..... o ••• 0 •••••• • ••••••• • • o. 0 •• ••• • • • •• • ••• • ••••••• • • 25 References 26 4 P. Isov_iita: Dillenius's 'Historia muscorum· I. lntroduction In the early cryptogamic taxonomy the publication of J. J. DILLENrus's 'Historia muscorum' in 1741 was one of the most epoch-making events. 'The thorough descriptions and the 85 copperplates - each containing numerous figures - of this quarto-sized monograph were regularly used and cited by students of cryptogams up till the early 1800's. Even today it is an important nomendatural source. The plant collection on which DILLENIUS mainly based his illustrations and descriptions is still at the Department of Botany of the University of Oxford (OXF). Several investigations have been made on the mosses, liverworts and lichens of this herbarium of 'Historia muscorum'. Regarding the bryophytes, the profound revision by S. 0. LINDBERG (1883; see also LINDBERG 1874, 1877) deserves particular mention (for lichens, see CRoMEIE 1880). In his taxonomic and nomendatural investigations of bryophytes, LIND BERG showed special interest in clarifying the early phases of this field of research, and published several valuable papers on this subject. As a conse quence of these studies, LINDBERG's herbarium (H-SOV, Botanical Museum of the University of Helsinki), which is known tobe rich in the specimens of contemporary bryologists, contains also specimens of many of the pioneers, e.g., A. BuDDLE, S. VAILLANT, F. EHRHART, J. DICKSON, 0. SwARTZ, H . A. ScHRADER, J. C. SCHLEICHER, and G. WAHLENBERG. The Dillenian bryophyte collection was studied by I,INDBERG in Oxford in 1872. He very well knew the particular importance of this collection and with deep gratitude reported that M. A. LAWSON, Sherardian Professor of Botany in Oxford, had permitted him to take with him small pieces of DILLENrus's specimens, for their critical identification in Helsinki (LrNDBERG 1877:14, 1883:10). He, however, failed to mention that he had carefully preserved these small samples and arranged them as a special collection. After the death of LINDBERG in 1889, hisherbariumwas purchased by the University of Helsinki, and the small but valuable collection of Dillenian spec imens was specially mentioned (SAELAJ-< et al. 1890:6) in connection with this transaction. Nevertheless, for nearly 80 years from that date no information regarding these specimens was available, and they were totally forgotten and neglected, until the collection was found fairly recently among the material of LINDBERG at the Botanical Museum of the University of Helsinki. It was in the same excellent condition as it was left by LINDBERG himself, and this dis covery led to the present study, whose aim is to assess the nomenclatural im portance of DILLENius's 'Historia muscorum' and herbarium specimens. 1 S. 0. LINDBERG's bryophyte herbarium is kept as a separate collection. Its abbrevia tion, H-SOL, will be mentioned in the neJ.:t edition of 'Index herbariorum'. ACTA BOTANICA FENNICA 89 5 li. Linnaeus's 'Species plantarum' as the starting point of the nomenclature of Hepaticae, and the importance of Dillenius's 'Historia muscorum' In cantrast to the situation with many other cryptogam groups, LrNNAEus's 'Species plantarum' (1753) has been ruled as the ;nomenclatural starting point of the Hepaticae. However, this decision does not in any way mean that LINNAEUS should be regarded as more of a specialist in hepatics than, for example, in mosses. In this connection, it is not possible or necessary to discuss in detail the descriptive method of LrKNAEUS and the general principles of the typification of the specific names published