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 360 THE RAREST TYPOGKAPHIC PRODUCT OF LINN-EUS. day not a single one lias noticed — or at least has not published — that in this epoch-making "Editio princeps" the leaf which is numbered pages 89-90 is, in each specimen, pasted in afterwards. What was it that induced Linn^us to intercalate this leaf? What was the text of these suppressed pages ? Quite unexpectedly I obtained possession of a copy of the first edition of the Species Plantar urn in which this leaf, intended to be cancelled, occurred in the place of the customary one. Without question this leaf is Liunaeus's rarest printed product, and in this aspect it ranks above his anonymous apology Orhh eruditl Judicium, because the latter work was not condemned to suppression. . . . Literature has no acknowledgement of these two pages of the Species Plantarum, and this has been the reason which has moved me to publish these pages, intended to be suppressed, in an accurate form.* The copy in my possession is still further noteworthy from the fact of its entirely wanting pages 269-270, instead of which (at the place where page 269 should begin '' Cassine Hort. Cliff. 72," &c., and end on page 270 " Sauv. Monsp. 45," including the genera Cassine, Sambucus, Spathelia, Staphylea, and Tamarix with their species) is another page with the pagination 89-90, but this con- tains the emended text (by which completion should take place), and without any pasting forms an integral part of the printed sheet. It is thus evident that the printing of the work had already reached pages 269-270, that is, as far as signature E, before pages were substituted for those cancelled. ' It was at this point that the book- binder became aware of the rectification that must be made, by exchanging the cancelled pages for these. The facsimile reprint of the original cancelled pages offers interest enough (cf. I.e.). First of all we see that Linnaeus published a genus Guerezia with two species, Lofling's Guerezia hispanica and Gronovius's Guerezia canadensis. That this genus was actually so called, admits of no doubt, for the name is nowhere shortened, but is written at full length in all three cases. In the table of contents, however, this name does not occur, nor in any other of his works. What was the reason for the speedy suppression of this generic name ? This is answered by the substituted leaf with pp. 89-90 (as also in the contents table), where, instead of the remarkable Guerezia, Queria is to be read, also with the two species mentioned above, Queria hispanica and Queria canadensis. Lofling gave this generic name in honour of Don Jose Quer y Martinez, a celebrated surgeon in the Spanish army, who had botanized with him. As the genus Guerezia, except on tliis leaf, is nowhere to be found in the botanical literature of the world, it has for that reason an unusual historic interest. which are in the Clausenburg University and Cardinal Haynald's hbrary in Budapest ; I have personally convinced myself of that fact in the copy belonging to the Budapest University.
 * I have been informed that this pasting in is very evident in the copies