PREFACE 



O F T H E 



TRANSLATOR. 



TH E following pieces were felefted 

 from many others publiflicd by fe- 

 veral ingenious members of that great, and 

 hitherto unrivalled fchool of natural hif- 

 tory, the univerfity of Upfal in Sweden, 

 under the prefidence of Linnaeus \ They 

 A 3 were 



^Linnaeus Phil. Bot. p. 9. has thefe words, vid. 

 diflert. noftra dc ficu. Now there is a piece in Amaen. 

 Acad. vol. I. on this fubjev^, in which the matter 

 referred to is contained. This piece goes under the 

 name of Cornelius Hegardt, tho* Linnasus plainly quotes 



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