Fig. 4
A sheet from Antonius Münchenberg’s handwritten herbarium vivum with a voucher specimen of Rubus caesius in the middle. This is the oldest dated collection of plants from Gotland. It contains besides illustrations also notes (diagnosis) about the uses and 'virtues' of various species. Most of the specimens in this collections were gathered in Hejde parish in the central part of the island during 1701 and 1702. The herbarium further offers some old Guthnic phytonyms (Photo: Courtesy Swedish Natural History Museum, Stockholm)