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houfes, gardens and libraries were at his fcrvicc. 

 He got from the king a pcnfion of eight thou- 

 fand Reals per annum, without becoming the 

 objeft of their envy. 



Loefling gained more and more the favour of 

 thefe phyfical gentlemen, and paid to each of 

 them a handfome compliment, by calling four 

 new plants found in Spain after their names, 

 which will be a lafting monument of the 

 gratitude of the Swedifk botanift, as Linn^us 

 has taken thefe names into all the fubfe- 

 quent editions of his Genera and Species planta* 

 rum and into the laft editions of his Syftema Na- 

 tura. Loefling Itaid about two years at Madrid^ 

 and" made during that time fome little botanical 

 expeditions in its neighbourhood : and col- 

 Icdted above 1300 diftincl fpecies of SpaniJJi 

 plants. The niiniftry then began to think of 

 fending Loefling to Spanifh South America. The 

 plan for this expedition was great, and worthy 

 of Don Carvajal's genius and love for the 

 fciences. According to this plan the whole ex- 

 pedition fhould be under the dire(flion of Don 

 Jofeph de Bturiaga^ Capitan de Altohordo in the 

 fleet, and director of the Caracas^ and the trad- 

 ing company there : under him was the next in 

 command, Don Eugenio Alharadi Colonel in the 

 land fervice, a native of Lima in ?eru. Four 



profefTors 



