PETER LOEFLING. 85 



Loefting had already colleded about ^v^l hundred 

 fpecies, and among them were about thirty new 

 Genera^ and about two hundred and fifty fpecies 

 not mentioned before by Dr. Linnceus in his 

 - works, the defcriptions of which he drew up. 

 The fever had emaciated poor hoefling^ he got a 

 double tertian with fainting fits, but conquered 

 this. In the beginning of 1755, he went to the 

 mifTion of Merercuri^ here he got new paroxyfms 

 of intermittent fevers, and foon after the Leu- 

 cophlegmatia (perlefia) and at laft that kind of 

 dropfy called anafarca^ of which he died Febru- 

 ary the twenty-fecond, 1756. His tutor Lin- 

 naus publifhed Loefting' s letters containing abfo- 

 lutely nothing but defcriptions, queries and Du- 

 hia about plants, with fome repeated acknow- 

 ledgments to his tutor, fome defcriptions of rare 

 Spanifh plants, which are given here at full 

 length, and reckoned by Dr. Linnaus to be mo- 

 dels in their kind j laftly, fome defcriptions and 

 remarks on American plants which are likev/ife 

 here added. 



Thus died together with 'Peter Loefting^ the 



hopes of the great advantages to natural hiflory, 

 which were expe<5led from his tour through Spa- 

 ni/Ii South America •, which country no doubt is 

 j:he richefl field for difcoveries of every kind in 

 natural hiflory and whofe treafurea arc now, as 

 G 3 it 



