Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Lichen fragilis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1154. 1753 . "Habitat in Europae alpibus alpinisque, per Sueciam in rupibus." RCN: 8243. Lectotype (Howe in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 39: 201. 1912; Wedin in Pl. Syst. Evol. 187: 229, f. 2. 1993): Herb. Linn. No. 1273.261, uppermost specimen ( LINN ) . Current name: Sphaerophorus fragilis (L.) Pers. ( Sphaerophoraceae ). Note: See review by Jorgensen & al. (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 312-313, f. 32. 1994). Howe's original type choice was subsequently restricted to one specimen by Wedin.