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AUTHOR
M Aghababyan
Michele Lojacono-Pojero’s Centuriae in the herbaria and archives in Geneva
Lojacono, well known as the author of a Flora sicula, offered for sale and distributed various exsiccata. In particular, he prepared 7 Centuriae of Plantae siculae rariores (1879-1884) and 4 Centuriae of Plantae italicae selectae (1885-1888). Swiss botanists (Barbey, Boissier, Burnat) were among his first customers. From their legacy, printed, mostly autographic inventories of all but one of these Centuriae (with only the second Italian Centuria missing) came to the archives of the Conservatoire botanique in Geneva, some in two different versions. These rare documents have been dated with the aid of mail stamps and of correspondence kept in the same archives, and transcripts of all of them …
Typification of the name Papaver hybridum L. (Papaveraceae)
The typification of the Linnaean name Papaver hybridum is discussed. A specimen in the Burser Herbarium at Uppsala is designated as lectotype.