BEAR'S EAR PRIMULA

HERBARIUM Primula (Primula Auricula), whole flowering plants; detail of reproductive organs and seeds, whole and sectioned. Classis V, Pentandria, monogynia et monopetalo, intra florem capsule; table 12 from: ''Tabulae phytographicae'' by Johannes Gessner (1709-1790) Swiss physician, botanist, mathematician and naturalist; follower and correspondent of Linnaeus (1707-1778), he was among the first to adopt his methods of classification. His phytographic tables, meticulously compiled following his criteria, were published posthumously by Christoph Salomon Schinz (1764-1847), Turici (Zurich) Impensis Johannis Henrici Fuessli, filii, 1795.

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