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I. General Herbarium

HERBARIUM by Robert Landauer
HERBARIUM from Robert Landauer, Würzburg, Germany. Species: Specularia hybrida A.DC. Habitat: Lake Garda in orchards. Accompanying plants: Calendula office. Leg: ipse Time: May 1897 Soil formation: Alluvium

Focal points: taxonomic: Pteridophytina, Spermatophytina

The basis for the General Herbarium was provided by the "Herbarium of Robert Landauer, Würzburg, Germany" (R. Landauer 1849-1916). The owner of the Pharmacy "Einhronapotheke" in Würzburg had amassed a rich collection on his travels, primarily to northern Italy and Switzerland, which he supplemented with valuable acquisitions from Scandinavia, Poland, Russia, the Balkan Peninsula, France, Spain and North Africa.

The General Herbarium contains, for example, the exsiccate work "Herbarium Europaeum Baenitz". The teacher and botanist Carl Gabriel Baenitz (1837-1913) compiled material that he collected on his own travels and received in exchange from fellow botanists. The underlying collection areas extend across the whole of Europe as far as Asia Minor and North Africa.

Further components are the "Flora exsiccata Bavaria" (published by the Royal Botanical Society of Regensburg), the "P. Sintenis: Iter orientale 1892", herbaria on the flora of Bavaria, Thuringia, Moravia, Silesia, Austria, Hungary, Scandinavia, the herbarium of Oberneder, of G. Vidal (Plantes des Basses Alpes), Guilhot (Plantes Pyrenéennes) and others.

Since the beginning of the 19th century (e.g. A. Rau: specimens for "Enumeratio Rosarum circa Wirceburgensis", 1816) and increasingly from the beginning of the 20th century until today, the General Herbarium has been supplemented by many individual collections (e.g. specimens from Wislicenus, Lehmann, Harz, Bauch, Ade, Kitzler, Volk, Huber, Ullmann, Buschbom, etc.).

Overall, the General Herbarium represents a very good overview collection of European plant species.