Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) 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 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Chironia linoides Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 189. 1753 . "Habitat in Capitis b. Spei herbidis." RCN: 1518. Lectotype (Verdoorn in Bothalia 7: 459. 1961): Herb. Clifford: 54, Chironia 1 (BM-000557978) . Generitype of Chironia Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 133. 1929). Current name: Chironia linoides L. ( Gentianaceae ). Note: See the detailed discussion of the original elements given by Prain (in Kew Bull. 1908: 352-353. 1908) who, however, did not designate a type.