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a weekly blog featuring specimens in the Carnegie Museum's herbarium.
each specimen has an important scientific and cultural story to tell.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation grant no. DBI 1612079 (2017-2019) and DBI 1801022 (2019-2022). 
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

May 23, 1894: 124 years ago

5/23/2018

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Today is the famous botanist Carl Linnaeus' birthday, born on May 23, 1707.  Linnaeus was hugely influential in taxonomy and nomenclature, having named and described many species.

This specimen of Fritilaria meleagris was collected in Linnaeus' home country of Sweden, in 1894, 187 years to the day after he was born.  Not surprisingly, this species was named by Linnaeus, and included in his classic publication, Species Plantarum​ (1753).  Many formal scientific names are followed by "L." denoting Linnaeus as the authority attributed to naming the species.
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