ARNOLDIA
ARNOLDIA started in November 1991 as a series mainly to publish the labels and annotations of the exsiccatae
distributed by the Botanische Staatssammlung München. The name is given in memory of Ferdinand
Christian Gustav Arnold (1828–1901).
F. Arnold studied jurisprudence in München and Heidelberg. He worked as a lawyer, between 1857 and
1877 in Eichstätt and from 1877 to 1896 in München.
Until his death, F. Arnold devoted all his spare time to floristics and plant taxonomy. As a student of
F. P. v. Martius and O. Sendtner, he first studied vascular plants. Later, he focused his
interest to bryophytes and lichens. His monograph of the lichens of Tyrolia, entitled Lichenologische
Ausflüge in Tirol, is still a major source of information for alpine lichenology.
In 1878, F. Arnold was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of München and he was one of
the founder members of the "Bayerische Botanische Gesellschaft", a society which is still active today in
distributing botanical knowledge and protecting the natural beauty of Bavaria.
F. Arnold was also a prolific editor of exsiccatae; within four series (Arnold: Lichenes exsiccati, Arnold:
Lichenes Monacenses exsiccati, Arnold: Cladoniae herbariorum Floerke et Wallroth, and Rehm et Arnold:
Cladoniae exsiccatae), he distributed some three thousand numbers. Furthermore, he assigned many of his precious
collections to other editors of exsiccatae: e. g. bryophytes to Rabenhorst (Bryotheca europaea), fungi to
Rehm (Ascomyceten) and vascular plants to Schultz (Herbarium normale).
The herbarium of F. Arnold (c. 150,000 specimens from all plant groups) is now housed in the Botanische
Staatssammlung München (M).
Exsiccata published in ARNOLDIA
The authors will be grateful to get annotations or redeterminations of specimens
distributed in their exsiccatae, which will be published in this series.