Type specimens preserved in the Trèmols and Costa herbaria ( BC )

Gavioli, L., Ibáñez, N. & Soriano, I. 2016. Type specimens preserved in the Trèmols and Costa herbaria (BC). Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid


INTRODUCTION
The Trèmols herbarium, kept at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona, is one of the first herbaria in Catalonia, largely made up of European plants (Gavioli & al., 2013a(Gavioli & al., , 2013b)).The current F. Trèmols' collection consists of approximately 9,000 specimen sheets, arranged in 60 volumes, plus four boxes of Hieracium spp.and 85 boxes with additional material.A computerized inventory at the genus level for all volumes, the original catalogue of the herbarium, and taxonomical cards are now available.We have also developed a preliminary list on the contents of the 85 extra boxes (Gavioli & al., 2013a(Gavioli & al., , 2013b)).
The aims of this study are focused on find and designate types in the computerized part of Trèmols herbarium (BC).This search has also lead us to look into other contemporary collections from 19th century, particularly in Costa and Vayreda herbarium (BC).
Records include all information available on every sheet, such as taxon name and author, collector, locality, and date.Additionally, we brought up-to-date locality data and nomenclature and, in some cases, identifications were also revised.
During this process, we have detected several putative type specimens among the exchanged materials.In these cases, research also included the protologue of taxa, and information about the process of typification.In some cases, the search for types was expanded to other historical herbaria of Botanical Institute of Barcelona of botanists involved in exchanges with F. Trèmols, for instance, A.C. Costa, and E. Vayreda the author and the collector of the original materials of Polygala vayredae.

RESULTS
Among the plant material preserved in the BC-Trèmols, BC-Costa herbaria, we designate below two syntypes and one lectotype.For all taxa, we indicate: name; place of publication and taxon's author; indication of the original locality in the protologue; locality of the type in brackets; a transcription of the original label; the date of gathering, the label's author in cursive (m = manuscript); herbarium number and some remarks on the typification process, or on nomenclatural or geographical matters.(Sáez & al., 2010: 244).F.X. de Bolòs was the first collector of this plant, and identified it as Polygala bracteolata L. (?) conferatur cum chamaebuxo (Bolòs, 1927).In April 1877, Vayreda retrieved the plant and sent some specimens to Costa, who described the species as a new taxon in May (Costa, 1877).Later, Vayreda distributed other specimens, apparently of the same collection, through the Societé Helvétique.

DISCUSSION
The analysis of the 3,695 specimens from the Trèmols Herbarium clearly shows the importance of the mate rials exchanged by this lay botanist (Gavioli & al., 2013a(Gavioli & al., , 2013b)).Thanks to these exchanges, we detected several types in BC-Trèmols and other coetaneous herbaria.
Trèmols did not described any taxa, so it is not surprising that the types detected so far correspond to specimens obtained by exchange: Fumaria caespitosa Loscos and Carex loscosii Lange belong to "Series Exsiccata Florae Aragonensis" distributed by F. Loscos and Polygala vayredae was sent by E. Vayreda.It should be added that in recent floras like Flora iberica, Fumaria caespitosa and Carex loscosii are treated as taxonomic synonyms of other species.On the other hand, the endemic taxon Polygala vayredae Costa, dedicated precisely to its collector, is accepted as species.For this taxon, in addition, we have proposed the lectotype conserved in Costa herbarium (the only specimen studied with handwritten label).The computerization of the rest of the herbarium Trèmols should allow us to detect other types, in particular from the exsiccata distributed by Loscos, who described dozens of taxa from Aragon in the second half of the 19th century.
Beyond these type specimens, the great value of this co llection is, undoubtedly, the fact that the Trèmols herbarium is one of the first herbaria in Catalonia constituted largely of European plants.
With our work we want to highlight the importance of the Trèmols herbarium, not only as the core foundation of the General herbarium of the IBB, but also as a place for collecting samples of the leading botanists of the second half of 19th century.