228 Mr. ArzELiUS's Hiffory of 
Trifolium pratenfe vulgare purpureum. Park. Theatr. 
p- ITIO n. I. ! 
Lobel, in his Adverfaria, has indeed no figure; and gives a de- 
fcription which comprehends at leaft two fpecies, the Trifol. repens 
and pratenfe. But that he chiefly had the repens in view, appears 
from his fubfequent Hiftoria or Obfervationes, in which he has 
given a pretty good figure of this plant, and at the fame time re- 
ferred to the above-mentioned Adverfaria. Of this original figure 
by Lobel, re-impreffions have afterw ards e made in all the above 
works, It bears fo near a refemblanc e to the. the Tr:fol. repens, as to 
leave us no room to doubt: and for this "wr. it appears to me 
the more furprifing, that fo many both ancient and modern authors 
could refer to it for the pratenfe, which it in no manner refembles. 
"Thus I have feen Lobel cited by Cafpar and John Bauhin, by Mori- 
fon, by Haller, in Stirp. Helv. and by Knorr; Dodonzus by Haller, 
both in his Stirpes and Hiftoria, by Linnzus, in both the editions 
of Flora Suecica, by Gorter, in both the editions of Flora Belgica, 
by Knorr, in his Thefaurus, by Mr. Hudfon, in the laft edition of 
Flora Anglica, and by Profeflor Vahl, in Flora Danica; Gerarde 
by Mr. Hudfon, in both the editions of His — PTE REY, 
Mr. Relhan, in the Flora Cantabrigienfis ; we lattly, Parkinfon 
by Ray, both in his Hiftoria, and in all the three editions of his 
Synopfis, by Haller, in his Stirpes, by Wilfon, Hill, and Mr. 
Hudfon, in both places. 
Haller happened firft, either by an error in writing or printing, 
to mifquote the laft Latin edition of Dodonzi Pemptades, viz. 
p. 365 inftead of 565; and, after him, this fault has been invariably 
copied by all the above-mentioned authors, except Gorter, who 
altered it in the laft edition of his Flora Belgica. | Haller alfo re- 
commends the figure by Dodonzus as a good one, but Crantz cri- 
ticifes 
