Herbarium of Abrakham Ens

Dates of collection: 1731-1756 Region of collection: Western Europe: Holland (1732-1734, 1740), England (1738), Germany (1745-1746), Finland (1752). Eastern Europe: Estonia (1753), Lithuania (1756), Ukraine (1748, 1749), vicinities of St. Petersburg (1740, 1747), Samara and Moscow (1753) Collector(s): Ens, Abrakham Volume of collection: More than 1500 specimens. Income date to LE: 1914 (Herbarium of the Botanical Garden) Income method: N/A LE Section of storage: General Section. It is storaged as separate collection. Notes: This herbarium was collected by the regimental doctor Abrakham Ens. It includes specimens of natural and cultivated plants from Europe and Russian Empire. Carl Linneus was very interested to see this collection, however, did not see it. The collection has very professional design. The plants has been collected and straightened very accurately. Base of stems are decorated by color pictures of vases. The plants are mounted by all surface on sheets of a not dense paper of large format (55 x 32 cm). All mounting sheets on edge are pasted over with a border from a color paper with a gold stamping. Herbarium sheets are placed in the dense flimsies decorated by the color paper. Pictures of vases has images of the people, animals, birds and landscapes. In the bottom of mounting sheet there is a handwritten label which includes polynomials, place and year of collecting and name of collector. Dried butterflies are placed on some sheets. (Notes by YR, 2004) References: Lipshits S.Yu. & Vasilchenko I.T. 1968. Tsentralnyi Gerbariy SSSR: istoricheskiy ocherk [Central Herbarium of the USSR: historical abstract]. Leningrad, Nauka. Compiler & Date: Yu.R.Roskov, 2004

(Representative specimen) Arum maculatum [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Brassica sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Campanula sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Carlina sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Fritillaria sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Fritillaria sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Geranium sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Helleborus niger L. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Larix orientalis [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Lilio-fritellaria sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Phlomis sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Polemonium sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Sanicula sp. (Representative specimen) Spiraea sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen) Tumera sp. [polynomial] (Representative specimen)