Studies of the botanical specimens collected by von Siebold

对植物标本的检查是在荷兰莱顿的Rijksherbarium进行的。我们总共发现了1540张由冯·西博尔德和他的日本和荷兰合作者组装的标本。在这342片植物中，有200片是蕨类植物。我们用彩色和黑白照片拍摄了所有的纸张。我们记录了冯·西博尔德在标签上添加的有趣的注释。冯·西博尔德在日本的植物学活动得到了日本植物学家的极大帮助。我们发现了伊藤圭佑、水谷Sukeroku和大内宗信分别送给von Siebold的95、26和20张标本。这些标本大多很小，但很漂亮。除了这三位植物学家之外，我们还发现了几十个不知名的日本植物学家的标本，但我们不知道他们是谁。除了通常干燥的标本外，冯·西博尔德还用精神制备了标本。我们一共搜寻并检查了168个罐子。我们发现，不仅不适合制作干标本的果实，而且叶子和花朵也被精神地保存了下来。在东京都大学牧野植物标本室也对标本进行了检查。植物标本室获得了冯·西博尔德于1963年从俄罗斯科马罗夫植物研究所收集的标本。然而，大多数标本体积小，没有很好地记录。我们继续对它们进行研究，发现了一些有趣的证据。

Examination of botanical specimens were carried out at the Rijksherbarium in Leiden, the Netherlands. We found a total of 1,540 sheets of specimens assembled by von Siebold and his Japaneass and Dutch collaborators. Of these 342 sheets are types and 200 are ferns. We photographed all sheets in color and in black and white. We recoarded interesting remarks added by von Siebold on the labels. Von Siebold's botanical activities in Japan were greatly helped by Japanese botanists.We found 95,26 and 20 sheets of specimens which were given to von Siebold by Ito Keiske, Mizutani Sukeroku and Ohkochi Zonshin respectively. Most of those specimens were small in size but beautiful. Besides the three botanists, we found a score of specimens made by several unknown Japanease botanists, however, we could not know who are them.Besides ordinarily dried specimens von Siebold prepared specimens in spirit. We searched out and examined a total of 168 jars. We found not only fruits which are unsuitable to make dried specimens but also leaves and flowers are preserved in spirit.Examination of specimens were also carried out at the Makino Herbarium of Tokyo Metropolitan University. The herbarium obtained specimens collected by von Siebold in 1963 from the Komarov Botanical Institute in Russia. However, most specimens are small in size and not well documented. We continued the studies of them and found some interesting evidences.