This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...their Linnaean names, often describing them. Sometimes he adds also the Chinese names according to the Canton dialect, but generally he sadly perverts the Chinese sounds. He says himself (II. 10) that it is possible that the Chinese, who gave him these names, have imposed upon him on many occasions. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...their Linnaean names, often describing them. Sometimes he adds also the Chinese names according to the Canton dialect, but generally he sadly perverts the Chinese sounds. He says himself (II. 10) that it is possible that the Chinese, who gave him these names, have imposed upon him on many occasions. Linnaeus, when determining Osbeck's Chinese collection seems to have been under the impression, that the habitats marked on the herbarium tickets, as Danes island, French island etc, referred to places of India, for in his Species plantarum, published 4 years before Osbeck's narrative appeared, all plants gathered by the latter, figure, with a few exceptions, as Indian plants only. But as we have seen O. never visited India. He collected a few plants on the coast of Java, but the bulk of his collection was represented by Chinese specimens. I may quote a few instances. In Linnaeus' Spec, plant, it is clearly stated, that Osbeck had gathered Jiuhus parvifolius, Cyperus Iria, Barleria cristata in India, whilst Osbeck had brought these plants from Canton. It seems that Linnaeus had a very confused idea with respect to the position of China and we cannot but think, that he considered the latter name to be a synonym for India. He describes many plants not known from elsewhere than from China as natives of India. Thus he states himself, that his Rosa indica and Lagerstroemia indica are Chinese plants. He describes his Daphne indica from specimens gathered by Osbeck at Canton, and this plant has, as far as I can conclude from the quotations in D. C. Prodr. XIV. 543, never been observed in India. On the other hand Sphaeranthus chinensis in his Spec, plant. figures as an Indian plant only. Compare D. C. Prodr. V. 371 "cur chinensis cum ipse auctor...
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