> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1012](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121143) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3410-1) LSID 3410-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724270) QID Q724270 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Gronovius, Johan (Jan) Frederik (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Gronovius, Johan \[Jan\] Frederik (1686-1762), Dutch botanist at Leiden. **Abbreviated name**: *Gronov.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gronov.*\] #### Herbarium and types The Gronovius herbarium containing plants from e.g. Clayton, Hudson, Gesner, Miller, Vaillant, and consulted by Linnaeus and Gaertner, was sold by public auction at Leiden on 9 Oct 1778. It was acquired, for fl. 650.—, by Lord Bute. Later it came into the hands of Sir Joseph Banks. It is now at [[Collection BM|BM]]. The *Flora virginica* types are therefore at [[Collection BM|BM]]. The *Flora orientalis* of Gronovius is based on the Rauwolf herbarium at [[Collection L|L]]. Linnaeus also had plants from Gronovius in his herbarium ([[Collection LINN|LINN]]) and so had Sherard and Dillenius ([[Collection OXF|OXF]]). For the relations between Gronovius and Linnaeus see Nordström, Svenska Linné – Sällsk. Årsskr. 38-37: 7-22. 1955. *Ref*.: IH 2: 241. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 175. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 90; BM 2: 739-740; JW 4: 387, 5: 240; KR p. 247; NNBW 1: 989; PR 3606-3608; SO ind. authors 25; Zander ed. 10, p. 665. - Dryander, Cat. Banks 5: 260 \[index\]. 1800 (bibl.) - Milner, Cat. Portr. Kew 56. 1906. - Britten, J. Bot. 47: 297-301. 1909 (relations with Clayton). - Fox, Fothergill, 16, 169, 171. 1919. - Fagin, William Bartram 5, 6, 19. 1933. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 244-245. 1936. - Moebius, Gesch. Bot. 34. 1937. - Earnest, John and William Bartram 184 \[index\]. 1940. - Nordström, Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 37-38: 7-22. 1955 (relation with Linnaeus). - Frick and Stearns, Mark Catesby 131 \[index\]. 1961. - Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall, ed. 1967, p. xxxv, index (relations with John Bartram). - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr Alexander Garden 376. 1969. - Ewan, Short History Bot. US 3, 31, 32, 74. 1969. - Ewan, Regn. veg. 71: 418 \[index\]. 1970. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 162-165, 373. 1971. #### Note Johan Frederik Gronovius was baptized in Leiden on 10 Feb 1686. The birth year 1690, often given, is erroneous. #### Eponymy *Gronovia* Blanco (1837); *Gronovia* Linnaeus (1753). #### Handwriting Candollea 30: 232-233. 1975. ### Publications ##### n.2189. Flora virginica **Title** *Flora virginica* exhibens plantas quas V. C.Johannes Clayton in Virginia observavit atque collegit. Easdem methodo sexuali disposuit, ad genera propria retulit, nominibus specificis insignivit, & minus cognitas descripsit \[auctor\]. Leiden (Cornelius Haak) 1739, 1743. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. virgin.* **Notes** *Ed. 1, pars prima*: early 1739, p. \[i-vi\], 3-128, \[index 6 p.\]. *Copies*: L (imprint pars prima Leiden 1743 \[sic\]), NY (1739 imprint). *pars secunda*: 1743, p. \[i\], 129-206, \[index 4 p.\]. *Copies*: L, MO, NY. *Facsimile ed*.: 1946, Jamaica Plain (Arnold Arboretum). *Copies*: FAS, US. *Ed. 2*: Jul-Aug 1762 (Gronovius sent copies to L on 10 Aug), p. \[i-xii\], map, 1-176, \[8, index\]. *Copies*: HU, US. – "*Flora virginica*... quas nobilissimus vir D. D. Johannes Claytonus,... in Virginia crescentes observavit, collegit & obtulit D. Joh. Fred. Gronovio, cujus studio & opera descriptae & in ordinem sexualem systematicum redactae sistuntur." Leiden 1762. Qu. \[edited by L. Th. Gronovius\]. *Facsimile ed*.: Arnold Arboretum 1946. *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: BM 2: 739; DA 1967; HE p. 25; HU 571; Jackson p. 365; LS 10442; ME 3: 342; PR 3607; SA 2: 564; IDC 559 (ed. 2). - Hitchcock, Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 12: 113-158. 1908. - Britten, J. Bot. 36: 264-267. 1898, 47: 300. 1909. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 162-163. 1971. ##### n.2190. Flora orientalis **Title** *Flora orientalis* sive recensio plantarum, quas botanicorum coryphaeus Leonhardus Rauwolffus, medicus augustanus, annis 1573, 1574, & 1575. in Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Armenia & Judaea crescentes observavit, & collegit, earumdemque ducenta specimina, quae in bibliotheca publica Lugduno-Batava adservantur, nitidissime exsiccata et chartae adglutinata in volumen retulit. Has methodo sexuali disposuit, synonymis probatioribus illustravit, nominibusque specificis insignivit \[auctor\] Leiden (Wilhelm de Groot) 1755. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. orient.* **Notes** *Collector*: Leonhard Rauwolff (1500-1596). *Publ*.: Apr-Jun 1755 (L. T. Gronovius sent a copy to Linnaeus on 9 Jun 1755), p. \[i-xxiii\], 1-150, 1, err. *Copy*: MO. – Based on the plants collected by Rauwolf in the near East 1573-1575. The Rauwolf herbarium is at L. *Ref*.: BM 2: 740; DA 1967; Jackson p. 377; LS 10442a; PR 3608; RS p. 86; SO 635f; IDC 774. - Smith, Corresp. Linnaeus 2: 483. 1821.