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XXV. The Botanical Hiftory of Trifolium alpefre, medium, and pratenfe. 
By Adam Afzeliu M. A. Demonfirator of Botany in the Univerfity of 
Upfal, Foreign Member of the Linnean iot 
Read No vember oir 1790. " " 
ITH a view of publifhing a new edition of the Fra Suecica 
of the late illuftrious Linnzus, I have long been occupied 
in procuring information concerning the Swedifh Plants. Having 
fpent ten years in this purfuit, I flattered myfelf with the idea of 
knowing all thofe defcribed by him, a few only excepted, which I 
could not perfectly. snake. out. But on my arrival i in this country 
I found myfelf in an errors: having. me man 
common plants in Sates! which in doc quite different 
names, This difcovery opened to me a new field of ftudy and la- 
bour. It was neceflary to examine whether the Englifh or Swe- 
difh botanifts underftood by the true names the plants defcribed by 
Linnzus. It would indeed be an inexcufable fault in the Swedifh 
ones, if they, who had conftant accefs to, and were tutored by, 
their mafter himfelf, fhould neverthelefs be always in the wrong 
in fuch cafes; accordingly we find the foreign natural hiftorians 
now and then likewife miftaken. 
This is the lefs furprifing, as, in the firft place, Linnzus has 
often mifquoted fynonymous names from the ancient authors ; and, 
- in the fecond place, when he has not given the defcription of the 
plants, 
