Carl Linnaeus     (1707 - 1778)




Image of Carl Linnaeus from J. Dörfler (1906 - 1907) Botaniker Porträts
Carl Linnaeus

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Biography

Linnaeus is quite possibly the most famous and influential person in the history of botany, which in some ways is quite unfortunate (at least for mycology). Basically, like Nägeli, he felt that the most important animals were those furry cute ones and the most important plants were those that look nice in a corsage. He wasn't much interested in other types of organisms, and he clearly didn't understand them very well, but that didn't stop him from cramming them into his system because, hey, his system had to cover everything. So the fungi had to wait for Fries (and the non-furry animals for Lamarck) before their taxonomy could be put on anything like a rational or productive basis.

The websites below have long, thorough, and excellent articles on him, along with many links to other Linnaeus websites. For a more detailed, technical discussion of his concrete contributions to botany, see Isley.

Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)


Duane Isley (1994) One Hundred and One Botanists


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Home Page

U. of Uppsala's Linnaeus page


Other Web Sources

UCMP Linnaeus site

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Selected Publications

Carl LinnaeusGenara Plantarum

Carl Linnaeus (1753) Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas

Carl Linnaeus (1753) Species Plantarum 2 vol.

Carl Linnaeus (1835 - 1758) Systema Natura (The System of Nature)
The dates cover the first edition, which presented the binomial system in a little pamphlet, through the tenth edition, a much larger work.


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Species

Agaricus campestris Linnaeus: Fries
Amanita muscaria var. muscaria (Linnaeus: Fries) W. J. Hooker
Arcyria denudata (Linnaeus) Wettstein
Boletopsis subsquamosa (Linnaeus: Fries) Kotlaba & Pouzar
Boletus subtomentosus Linnaeus
Fuligo septica (Linnaeus) Wiggers
Hydnum repandum Linnaeus: Fries
Lactarius piperatus (Linnaeus: Fries) Persoon
Lycogala epidendrum (Linnaeus) Fries
Marasmius androsaceus (Linnaeus: Fries) Fries
Pycnoporus sanguineus (Linnaeus: Fries) Murrill
Sarcodon imbricatus (Linnaeus: Fries) Karsten
Scutellinia scutellata (Linnaeus: Fries) Lambotte
Suillus granulatus (Linnaeus: Fries) C. E. O. Kuntze
Suillus luteus (Linnaeus: Fries) S. F. Gray
Tarzetta cupularis (Linnaeus: Fries) Lambotte
Trametes suaveolens (Linnaeus: Fries) Fries
Trametes versicolor (Linnaeus: Fries) Pilát
Xylaria hypoxylon (Linnaeus: Fries) Greville

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Genera

Agaricus Linnaeus
Helvella Linnaeus: Saint-Amans
Hydnum Linnaeus: Fries

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