Münchenberg 361 (1702)

Münchenberg 361 herbarium specimen, Gotland (1702)
Münchenberg 361 (1702)
Münchenberg's herbarium book open at number 361, held by the Swedish Museum of Natural History as S-MG-361 (CC BY 4.0)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	Sweden
Province/State	Gotland
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	1702
Collector	A. Münchenberg
Specimen
Repository	Swedish Museum of Natural History
Catalogue Number	S-MG-361
Collector Number	Münchenberg 361
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	Bengt Pettersson
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Münchenberg 361 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa gathered in fields on the island of Gotland, Sweden, in 1702 by Antonius Christophori Münchenberg, who pressed it as number 361 of a bound herbarium book. The Swedish Museum of Natural History holds the book and catalogues the specimen as S-MG-361.

The herbarium book

Münchenberg (1680–1743) studied at Uppsala under Olof Rudbeck the Younger. From 1701 to 1704 he was a private tutor in the vicar's house at Vall, in the middle of Gotland, and he ended his career as rural dean of Vreta Kloster. The title of his book begins Arborum, fruticum et herbarum flores et folia in insula Gothlandiaca collecta annis 1701 1702 ("flowers and leaves of trees, shrubs and herbs collected on the island of Gotland in the years 1701 and 1702"). The book also holds plants from the academic garden at Uppsala. S. O. Lindberg gave it to the botanical department of the Riksmuseum, today's Swedish Museum of Natural History, in 1857.

Bengt Pettersson published a study of the book, with a list of its plants, in 1948. He assigned numbers 1 to 349 and 351 to 361, and four numbers from Stora Karlsö, to the Gotland part, gathered in 1701 and 1702, and he listed number 361 among the species he judged to be certainly cultivated.

Entry 361

The entry on the left-hand page gives the number, the habitat In agris ("in the fields"), the names Cannabis, Hamp and, in German script, Hanff, and a passage on the plant's medicinal uses signed D. Simon Paulli. Pettersson identified the medicinal passages in the book as abbreviated translations from Simon Paulli's Flora Danica (1648), and he left them out of his edition. The plant is mounted on the facing page above the number 361: a flowering shoot with toothed leaflets, with the outline of a leaf drawn in ink above it.

The museum's catalogue gives the date as 1702 and the locality as [Gotland], in square brackets, with the habitat In agris and the note Hamp. [+S.P.]. It lists Münchenberg's own name for the plant, Cannabis, and Bengt Pettersson's determination as Cannabis sativa L.