Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2023.68.02.02
G. Thijsse, D.J. Mabberley, P. Baas
The dried plant collection, now known as the ‘Van Royen herbarium’, was assembled by Adriaan and David van Royen, successive Leiden professors of botany in the period 1729–1799. The significance of this herbarium is partly due to the fact that Linnaeus was able to study Adriaan’s collections extensively when he stayed in The Netherlands, such that it must have influenced, to some extent, his subsequent publications, notably Species Plantarum (1753). In this review we track the complex history of the herbarium and follow its physical housing through time. Poor storage conditions in the 18th and 19th centuries may account for the loss of an unknown number of specimens originally in the herbarium. The history of the herbarium of Nicolaas Meerburg, head gardener in the Leiden botanical garden from 1774–1814, where he had worked from 1752, is closely connected with that of the Van Royens, and is also discussed here. We explore the composition of the ‘Van Royen herbarium’ and document who contributed to it. Altogether 80 plant collectors or original herbarium owners are identified. For example, there is a substantial set of specimens collected by Carl Peter Thunberg in Japan and many specimens from the Cape region of South Africa, which must have been gathered by him during his first stay there. Another large set is that collected by Johann Gerhard König in Ceylon (nowadays Sri Lanka) and there are many specimens from the collections of Albrecht von Haller and Sébastien Vaillant. The herbarium contains several seed collections used for Joseph Gaertner’s De Fructibus (listed in Appendix 4) and also many specimens assembled by Adriaan van Royen for his Ericetum Africanum project. Last, but not least significant among the rest, there are specimens cut out of a book herbarium owned by Jacob Breyne with plants collected by Carolus Schweiker (or Sweiker) around Montpellier (France) in 1666. Information necessary for the correct attribution of specimens is presented, complete with information enabling attribution of individual specimens to their original owners. Example barcodes of specimens from individual contributors and their handwriting(s) can be found in Appendix 3. Brief details of the life and work of Adriaan and David van Royen is given in Appendices 1 and 2. The significance of the herbarium for the typification of Linnaean and other species names is discussed.
这些干燥的植物收藏,现在被称为“范·罗伊恩植物标本馆”,是由阿德里安和大卫·范·罗伊恩收集的,他们是1729-1799年间莱顿大学连续的植物学教授。这个植物标本室的重要性部分是由于林奈在荷兰逗留期间能够广泛研究阿德里安的藏品,因此它一定在某种程度上影响了他后来的出版物,特别是《物种植物》(1753)。在这篇综述中,我们追溯了植物标本室的复杂历史,并随着时间的推移跟踪了它的物理住所。18世纪和19世纪糟糕的储存条件可能是导致植物标本室中数量不详的标本丢失的原因。1774年至1814年担任莱顿植物园园艺师的尼古拉·米尔堡(Nicolaas Meerburg)的植物标本室的历史与范·罗伊斯的历史密切相关,他从1752年开始在莱顿植物园工作,在这里也进行了讨论。我们探索了“Van Royen植物标本馆”的组成,并记录了对它做出贡献的人。共有80名植物收集者或原始植物标本室所有者被确认。例如,Carl Peter Thunberg在日本收集了大量的标本,在南非开普地区收集了许多标本,这些标本一定是他第一次在那里收集的。另一套大型标本是由Johann Gerhard König在锡兰(今斯里兰卡)收集的,还有许多标本来自Albrecht von Haller和ssambastien Vaillant的收藏。这个植物标本室包含了约瑟夫·盖尔特纳的《果实》(De Fructibus)所收集的一些种子(列在附录4中),以及阿德里安·范·罗伊恩(Adriaan van Royen)为他的非洲标本项目收集的许多标本。最后,但并非最不重要的是,有一些标本是从Jacob Breyne拥有的一本植物标本馆剪下来的,这些标本是1666年由Carolus Schweiker(或Sweiker)在蒙彼利埃(法国)周围收集的植物。提供了标本正确归属所需的信息,并提供了能够将单个标本归属于其原始所有者的完整信息。来自个人贡献者的样本条形码示例及其笔迹可在附录3中找到。阿德里安和大卫·范·罗伊恩的生活和工作的简要细节在附录1和2中给出。讨论了植物标本室对林奈和其他物种名称的分类意义。
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