"Scelta di piante spontanee toscane”: due erbari rilegati conservati nel Museo Botanico pisano

Two bound herbaria recently discovered in the Botanic Museum of Pisa are here presented. The two herbaria include 199 specimens and 142 different taxa, all collected in Tuscany. Among these taxa, five are Tuscan endemics, four Italian endemics, five aliens in Tuscany and two extinct. After a taxonomic and nomenclatural revision, the two herbaria were digitized and made freely available online. Based on a calligraphic comparison and on the analysis of some fragments of newspapers occurring in the herbaria, they have been attributed to the botanist Antonio Bottini (1850-1931) from Lucca.